Outputs (264)

Towards a framework for the generation of enhanced attack/background network traffic for evaluation of network-based intrusion detection systems
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lo, O. C. W., Graves, J. R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2010, July). Towards a framework for the generation of enhanced attack/background network traffic for evaluation of network-based intrusion detection systems. Presented at European Conference on Information Warfare and Security

There are a multitude of threats faced in computer networks such as viruses, worms, trojans, attempted user privilege gain, data theft and denial of service attacks. To combat such threats, multiple lines of defence are applied to a network including... Read More about Towards a framework for the generation of enhanced attack/background network traffic for evaluation of network-based intrusion detection systems.

HI-risk: A method to analyse health information risk intelligence
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., & van Deursen, N. (2016, September). HI-risk: A method to analyse health information risk intelligence. Presented at 2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)

Information security threat intelligence is a prevalent topic amongst researchers, long-established IT-vendors and start-ups. The possibilities of Big Data analytics to security threat and vulnerability scanning offer a significant development in the... Read More about HI-risk: A method to analyse health information risk intelligence.

Performance Evaluation of a Fragmented Secret Share System
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ukwandu, E., Buchanan, W. J., & Russell, G. (2017, June). Performance Evaluation of a Fragmented Secret Share System. Presented at 2017 International Conference On Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics And Assessment (Cyber SA)

There are many risks in moving data into public storage environments, along with an increasing threat around large-scale data leakage. Secret sharing scheme has been proposed as a keyless and resilient mechanism to mitigate this, but scaling through... Read More about Performance Evaluation of a Fragmented Secret Share System.

Ad-hoc routing metrics and applied weighting for QoS support
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Migas, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2008, April). Ad-hoc routing metrics and applied weighting for QoS support. Presented at IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, 2008. IPDPS 2008

In the vast majority of ad-hoc routing protocols, the hop-counting mechanisms for identifying the optimal route are dominant. However, this approach oversimplifies such a complex decision by ignoring the fact that participating devices may have consi... Read More about Ad-hoc routing metrics and applied weighting for QoS support.

Scenario Analysis using Out-of-line Firewall Evaluation Framework.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Saliou, L., Buchanan, W. J., Graves, J., & Munoz, J. (2007, July). Scenario Analysis using Out-of-line Firewall Evaluation Framework. Presented at 6th European Conference on Information Warfare, and Security, Shrivenham, UK

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks against corporate networks and assets are increasing, and their potential risk for future attacks is also a major concern. These attacks typically aim at disabling computer network infrastructure, and, sin... Read More about Scenario Analysis using Out-of-line Firewall Evaluation Framework..

Metric Evaluation of Embedded Java-Based Proxies on Handheld Devices in Cluster-Based Ad Hoc Routing
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Migas, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2005, April). Metric Evaluation of Embedded Java-Based Proxies on Handheld Devices in Cluster-Based Ad Hoc Routing. Presented at 12th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS'05), Greenbelt, MD, USA

Ad-hoc wireless networks, which use ad-hoc routing methods may prove a good solution in certain applications, especially where networks have to be constructed where there is no possibly of creating a network backbone, and in emergency situations. The... Read More about Metric Evaluation of Embedded Java-Based Proxies on Handheld Devices in Cluster-Based Ad Hoc Routing.

Enhanced Methods of Coursework Provision in Computer Networks.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., & Saliou, L. (2004, June). Enhanced Methods of Coursework Provision in Computer Networks. Presented at ITRE 2004. 2nd International Conference Information Technology: Research and Education, London, England, UK

Many computing-related programmes and modules have many problems caused with large class sizes, large-scale plagiarism, module franchising, and an increasing requirement from students for increased amounts of hands-on, practical work. This paper pres... Read More about Enhanced Methods of Coursework Provision in Computer Networks..

Mobile agents for routing, topology discovery, and automatic network reconfiguration in ad-hoc networks.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Migas, N., Buchanan, W. J., & McArtney, K. (2003, April). Mobile agents for routing, topology discovery, and automatic network reconfiguration in ad-hoc networks

Wireless networks and the usage of mobile devices are becoming popular in recent days, especially in creating ad-hoc networks. There is thus scope for developing mobile systems, where devices take an active part of creating a network infrastructure,... Read More about Mobile agents for routing, topology discovery, and automatic network reconfiguration in ad-hoc networks..

An intelligent agent security intrusion system
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pikoulas, J., Buchanan, W., Mannion, M., & Triantafyllopoulos, K. (2002, April). An intelligent agent security intrusion system. Presented at Ninth Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, Lund, Sweden

Network security has now become one of the most important aspects in computer systems and the Internet. Apart from strong encryption, there is no definite method of truly securing network, thus they must be protected at different levels of the OSI mo... Read More about An intelligent agent security intrusion system.

Sticky policy enabled authenticated OOXML
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spyra, G., Buchanan, W. J., & Ekonomou, E. (2016, July). Sticky policy enabled authenticated OOXML. Presented at IEEE Technically Sponsored SAI Computing Conference 2016, London, UK

This paper proposes a secure document sharing construction, which addresses confidentiality and authenticity concerns related to cloud-based data sharing. The goal of this research is to find an efficient way to share data in the cloud across various... Read More about Sticky policy enabled authenticated OOXML.

Mining malware command and control traces
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McLaren, P., Russell, G., & Buchanan, B. (2017, July). Mining malware command and control traces. Presented at 2017 Computing Conference

Detecting botnets and advanced persistent threats is a major challenge for network administrators. An important component of such malware is the command and control channel, which enables the malware to respond to controller commands. The detection o... Read More about Mining malware command and control traces.

Seamless Cryptographic Key Generation via Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Components for End-to-End Data Encryption
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Asif, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2017, June). Seamless Cryptographic Key Generation via Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Components for End-to-End Data Encryption. Presented at 10th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings‐2017), Exeter, UK

Quantum key distribution (QKD) systems have already attained much attention for providing end-to-end data encryption to the subscribers. However, it is very important that the QKD infrastructure is compatible with the already existing telecommunicati... Read More about Seamless Cryptographic Key Generation via Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Components for End-to-End Data Encryption.

An applied pattern-driven corpus to predictive analytics in mitigating SQL injection attack
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Uwagbole, S. O., Buchanan, W. J., & Fan, L. (2017, September). An applied pattern-driven corpus to predictive analytics in mitigating SQL injection attack. Presented at 2017 Seventh International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies (EST)

Emerging computing relies heavily on secure back-end storage for the massive size of big data originating from the Internet of Things (IoT) smart devices to the Cloud-hosted web applications. Structured Query Language (SQL) Injection Attack (SQLIA) r... Read More about An applied pattern-driven corpus to predictive analytics in mitigating SQL injection attack.

Experimental High Speed Data Encryption via SDM-CV-QKD Signaling for High-Capacity Access Network
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Asif, R., Haithem, M., & Buchanan, W. J. (2018, July). Experimental High Speed Data Encryption via SDM-CV-QKD Signaling for High-Capacity Access Network. Presented at Advanced Photonics 2018 (BGPP, IPR, NP, NOMA, Sensors, Networks, SPPCom, SOF)

We report a high capacity Quantum-to-the-Home (QTTH) network in a spatialdivision-multiplexing (SDM) network utilizing 7-core multicore fiber (MCF). Aggregate secure key rates of 33.6 Mbit/s over 9.8 km of fiber are the actual state-of-the-art.

Detection of Algorithmically Generated Malicious Domain
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Agyepong, E., Buchanan, W., & Jones, K. (2018, May). Detection of Algorithmically Generated Malicious Domain. Presented at Computer Science & Information Technology

In recent years, many malware writers have relied on Dynamic Domain Name Services (DDNS) to maintain their Command and Control (C&C) network infrastructure to ensure a persistence presence on a compromised host. Amongst the various DDNS techniques, D... Read More about Detection of Algorithmically Generated Malicious Domain.

Privacy Parameter Variation using RAPPOR on a Malware Dataset
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aaby, P., Mata De Acuña, J. J., Macfarlane, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2018, August). Privacy Parameter Variation using RAPPOR on a Malware Dataset. Presented at 2018 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications/ 12th IEEE International Conference On Big Data Science And Engineering (TrustCom/BigDataSE), New York, NY, USA

Stricter data protection regulations and the poor application of privacy protection techniques have resulted in a requirement for data-driven companies to adopt new methods of analysing sensitive user data. The RAPPOR (Randomized Aggregatable Privacy... Read More about Privacy Parameter Variation using RAPPOR on a Malware Dataset.

Correlation Power Analysis on the PRESENT Block Cipher on an Embedded Device
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lo, O., Buchanan, W. J., & Carson, D. (2018, August). Correlation Power Analysis on the PRESENT Block Cipher on an Embedded Device. Presented at ACM Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Hamburg, Germany

Traditional cryptographic techniques have proven to work well on most modern computing devices but they are unsuitable for devices (e.g. IoT devices) where memory, power consumption or processing power is limited. Thus, there has been an increasing a... Read More about Correlation Power Analysis on the PRESENT Block Cipher on an Embedded Device.

Predicting Malicious Insider Threat Scenarios Using Organizational Data and a Heterogeneous Stack-Classifier
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.

A Decentralised Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Medical Wearable Sensors Data
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021, August). A Decentralised Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Medical Wearable Sensors Data. Presented at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS), Barcelona, Spain

Recent years have seen an increase in medical big data, which can be attributed to a paradigm shift experienced in medical data sharing induced by the growth of medical technology and the Internet of Things. The evidence of this potential has been pr... Read More about A Decentralised Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Medical Wearable Sensors Data.

Mitigating Disaster using Secure Threshold-Cloud Architecture
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ukwandu, E., Buchanan, W. J., & Russell, G. (2018, November). Mitigating Disaster using Secure Threshold-Cloud Architecture

There are many risks in moving data into public cloud environments, along with an increasing threat around large-scale data leakage during cloud outages. This work aims to apply secret sharing methods as used in cryptography to create shares of crypt... Read More about Mitigating Disaster using Secure Threshold-Cloud Architecture.