Predicting Malicious Insider Threat Scenarios Using Organizational Data and a Heterogeneous Stack-Classifier (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hall, A. J., Pitropakis, N., Buchanan, W. J., & Moradpoor, N. (2018, December). Predicting Malicious Insider Threat Scenarios Using Organizational Data and a Heterogeneous Stack-Classifier. Presented at International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Cyber Threat Hunting, Seattle, WA, USA

Insider threats continue to present a major challenge for the information security community. Despite constant research taking place in this area; a substantial gap still exists between the requirements of this community and the solutions that are cu... Read More about Predicting Malicious Insider Threat Scenarios Using Organizational Data and a Heterogeneous Stack-Classifier.

Implementation and Detection of Novel Attacks to the PLC Memory on a Clean Water Supply System (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robles-Durazno, A., Moradpoor, N., McWhinnie, J., Russell, G., & Maneru-Marin, I. (2018, August). Implementation and Detection of Novel Attacks to the PLC Memory on a Clean Water Supply System. Presented at The 4th International Conference on Technology Trends, Babahoyo, Ecuador

Critical infrastructures such as nuclear plants or water supply systems are mainly managed through electronic control systems. Such systems comprise of a number of elements, such as programmable logic controllers (PLC), networking devices, and actua... Read More about Implementation and Detection of Novel Attacks to the PLC Memory on a Clean Water Supply System.

Vulnerability Assessment of Objective Function of RPL Protocol for Internet of Things (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Semedo, F., Moradpoor, N., & Rafiq, M. (2018, September). Vulnerability Assessment of Objective Function of RPL Protocol for Internet of Things. Presented at 11th International Conference On Security Of Information and Networks, Cardiff, United Kingdom

The Internet of Things (IoT) can be described as the ever-growing global network of objects with built-in sensing and communication interfaces such as sensors, Global Positioning devices (GPS) and Local Area Network (LAN) interfaces. Security is by f... Read More about Vulnerability Assessment of Objective Function of RPL Protocol for Internet of Things.

Insider threat detection using principal component analysis and self-organising map (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moradpoor, N., Brown, M., & Russell, G. (2017, October). Insider threat detection using principal component analysis and self-organising map. Presented at Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks - SIN '17, India

An insider threat can take on many aspects. Some employees abuse their positions of trust by disrupting normal operations, while others export valuable or confidential data which can damage the employer's marketing position and reputation. In additio... Read More about Insider threat detection using principal component analysis and self-organising map.