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How WannaCry caused global panic but failed to turn much of a profit (2017)
Newspaper / Magazine
Buchanan, B. (2017). How WannaCry caused global panic but failed to turn much of a profit. [https://theconversation.com/how-wannacry-caused-global-panic-but-failed-to-turn-much-of-a-profit-77740]. https://theconversation.com/how-wannacry-caused-global-panic-but-failed-to-turn-much-of-a-profit-77740

The WannaCry cyber-attack led to panic across the globe, showing just how important it is for organisations to have secure operating systems. This was not even the most sophisticated malware around. Numerous networks could easily cope with it and it... Read More about How WannaCry caused global panic but failed to turn much of a profit.

If two countries waged cyber war on each another, here’s what to expect (2016)
Newspaper / Magazine
Buchanan, B. (2016). If two countries waged cyber war on each another, here’s what to expect. [https://theconversation.com/if-two-countries-waged-cyber-war-on-each-another-heres-what-to-expect-63544]. https://theconversation.com/if-two-countries-waged-cyber-war-on-each-another-heres-what-to-expect-63544

Imagine you woke up to discover a massive cyber attack on your country. All government data has been destroyed, taking out healthcare records, birth certificates, social care records and so much more. The transport system isn’t working, traffic light... Read More about If two countries waged cyber war on each another, here’s what to expect.

The next cyberattack could come from sound waves (2017)
Newspaper / Magazine
Buchanan, B. (2017). The next cyberattack could come from sound waves. [https://theconversation.com/the-next-cyberattack-could-come-from-sound-waves-74716]. https://theconversation.com/the-next-cyberattack-could-come-from-sound-waves-74716

You might think your smartphone or laptop is relatively safe from cyber attacks thanks to anti-virus and encryption software. But your devices are increasingly at risk from “side-channel” attacks, where an intruder can bypass traditional network entr... Read More about The next cyberattack could come from sound waves.

Cryptography across industry sectors (2017)
Journal Article
Buchanan, W. J., Woodward, A., & Helme, S. (2017). Cryptography across industry sectors. Journal of Cyber Security Technology, 1(3-4), 145-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/23742917.2017.1327221

Security adoption varies across industry sectors, where some companies such as Google, Apple and Microsoft are strong advocates of the adoption of HTTPS, while other companies, especially for news sites, have weak adoption. This paper provides a samp... Read More about Cryptography across industry sectors.

An Improvement of Tree-Rule Firewall for a Large Network: Supporting Large Rule Size and Low Delay (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chomsiri, T., He, X., Nanda, P., & Tan, Z. (2017). An Improvement of Tree-Rule Firewall for a Large Network: Supporting Large Rule Size and Low Delay. In 2016 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/I​SPA (178-184). https://doi.org/10.1109/trustcom.2016.0061

The firewalls were invented since 1990s [1] and have been developed to operate more secure and faster. From the first era of the firewalls until today, they still regulate packet based on a listed rule. The listed rule is the set of rule sequence whi... Read More about An Improvement of Tree-Rule Firewall for a Large Network: Supporting Large Rule Size and Low Delay.

An Intrusion Detection System Based on Polynomial Feature Correlation Analysis (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, Q., Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., Nanda, P., He, X., & Han, W. (2017, August). An Intrusion Detection System Based on Polynomial Feature Correlation Analysis. Presented at 2017 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ICESS

This paper proposes an anomaly-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS), which flags anomalous network traffic with a distance-based classifier. A polynomial approach was designed and applied in this work to extract hidden correlations from traffic rel... Read More about An Intrusion Detection System Based on Polynomial Feature Correlation Analysis.

Seamless Cryptographic Key Generation via Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Components for End-to-End Data Encryption (2017)
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.

Generation of Network Behaviour Descriptions Using MCA Based on TAM (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tan, Z. (2013, March). Generation of Network Behaviour Descriptions Using MCA Based on TAM. Paper presented at Kaspersky Lab's 2013 Annual Student Cyber Security Conference

In this paper, a multivariate correlation analysis technique based on triangle area map is introduced. The technique is applied for network traffic characterization and provides quality network behaviour descriptors for intrusion detectors to use. Th... Read More about Generation of Network Behaviour Descriptions Using MCA Based on TAM.

Evaluation on multivariate correlation analysis based denial-of-service attack detection system (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., Nanda, P., He, X., & Liu, R. P. (2012, August). Evaluation on multivariate correlation analysis based denial-of-service attack detection system. Presented at Proceedings of the First International Conference on Security of Internet of Things - SecurIT '12, Kollam, India

In this paper, a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack detection system is explored, where a multivariate correlation analysis technique based on Euclidean distance is applied for network traffic characterization and the principal of anomaly-based detection... Read More about Evaluation on multivariate correlation analysis based denial-of-service attack detection system.

Multivariate Correlation Analysis Technique Based on Euclidean Distance Map for Network Traffic Characterization (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., Nanda, P., & Liu, R. P. (2011, November). Multivariate Correlation Analysis Technique Based on Euclidean Distance Map for Network Traffic Characterization. Presented at 13th International Conference (ICICS 2011), Beijing, China

The quality of feature has significant impact on the performance of detection techniques used for Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. The features that fail to provide accurate characterization for network traffic records make the techniques suffer from... Read More about Multivariate Correlation Analysis Technique Based on Euclidean Distance Map for Network Traffic Characterization.

Denial-of-Service Attack Detection Based on Multivariate Correlation Analysis (2011)
Book Chapter
Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., Nanda, P., & Liu, R. P. (2011). Denial-of-Service Attack Detection Based on Multivariate Correlation Analysis. In Neural Information Processing; Lecture Notes in Computer Science (756-765). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24965-5_85

The reliability and availability of network services are being threatened by the growing number of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. Effective mechanisms for DoS attack detection are demanded. Therefore, we propose a multivariate correlation analysis... Read More about Denial-of-Service Attack Detection Based on Multivariate Correlation Analysis.

A Two-Tier System for Web Attack Detection Using Linear Discriminant Method (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., Nanda, P., Liu, R. P., Jia, W., & Yeh, W. (2010, December). A Two-Tier System for Web Attack Detection Using Linear Discriminant Method. Presented at 12th International Conference, ICICS 2010, Barcelona, Spain

The reliability and availability of network services are being threatened by the growing number of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. Effective mechanisms for DoS attack detection are demanded. Therefore, we propose a multivariate correlation analysis... Read More about A Two-Tier System for Web Attack Detection Using Linear Discriminant Method.

Network Intrusion Detection based on LDA for payload feature selection (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., & Nanda, P. (2010). Network Intrusion Detection based on LDA for payload feature selection. In 2010 IEEE Globecom Workshops. https://doi.org/10.1109/glocomw.2010.5700198

Intrusion detection using GSAD model for HTTP traffic on web services (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamdagni, A., Tan, Z., Nanda, P., He, X., & Liu, R. P. (2010, June). Intrusion detection using GSAD model for HTTP traffic on web services. Presented at Proceedings of the 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference on ZZZ - IWCMC '10

Intrusion detection systems are widely used security tools to detect cyber-attacks and malicious activities in computer systems and networks. Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) is used for new applications without much interference. In this paper, w... Read More about Intrusion detection using GSAD model for HTTP traffic on web services.

Intrusion Detection Using Geometrical Structure (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamdagni, A., Tan, Z., Nanda, P., He, X., & Liu, R. (2009, December). Intrusion Detection Using Geometrical Structure. Presented at 2009 Fourth International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

We propose a statistical model, namely Geometrical Structure Anomaly Detection (GSAD) to detect intrusion using the packet payload in the network. GSAD takes into account the correlations among the packet payload features arranged in a geometrical st... Read More about Intrusion Detection Using Geometrical Structure.

Blockchain and Git repositories for sticky policies protected OOXML. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spyra, G., Buchanan, W. J., & Ekonomou, E. (2017, November). Blockchain and Git repositories for sticky policies protected OOXML. Presented at FTC 2017 - Future Technologies Conference 2017

The paper discuss possible cloud-based Information Rights Management (IRM) model extension with enhanced accountability for both a sticky policy and an attached data. This work compliments research on secure data sharing with Office Open XML (OOX... Read More about Blockchain and Git repositories for sticky policies protected OOXML..

Quantum-to-the-Home: Achieving Gbits/s Secure Key Rates via Commercial Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Equipment (2017)
Journal Article
Asif, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2017). Quantum-to-the-Home: Achieving Gbits/s Secure Key Rates via Commercial Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Equipment. Security and Communication Networks, 2017, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/7616847

There is current significant interest in Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) networks, i.e. end-to-end optical connectivity. Currently, it may be limited due to the presence of last-mile copper wire connections. However, in near future it is envisaged that FTTH... Read More about Quantum-to-the-Home: Achieving Gbits/s Secure Key Rates via Commercial Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Equipment.

An applied pattern-driven corpus to predictive analytics in mitigating SQL injection attack (2017)
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.

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.

Security, privacy and safety evaluation of dynamic and static fleets of drones (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Akram, R. N., Markantonakis, K., Mayes, K., Habachi, O., Sauveron, D., Steyven, A., & Chaumette, S. (2017, September). Security, privacy and safety evaluation of dynamic and static fleets of drones. Presented at 2017 IEEE/AIAA 36th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

Interconnected everyday objects, either via public or private networks, are gradually becoming reality in modern life -- often referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT) or Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). One stand-out example are those systems based... Read More about Security, privacy and safety evaluation of dynamic and static fleets of drones.