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Exploring DTrace as an Incident Response Tool for Unix Systems (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Duin, J., Mckeown, S., & Abubakar, M. (2024, June). Exploring DTrace as an Incident Response Tool for Unix Systems. Presented at Cyber Science 2024, Edinburgh, Scotland

Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) is often the target of sophisticated and sustained cyber attacks perpetrated by advanced threat actors with considerable resources. These attacks can lead to interruptions in core services such as energy and wa... Read More about Exploring DTrace as an Incident Response Tool for Unix Systems.

PASSION: Permissioned Access Control for Segmented Devices and Identity for IoT Networks (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ali, H., Abubakar, M., Ahmad, J., Buchanan, W. J., & Jaroucheh, Z. (2023, November). PASSION: Permissioned Access Control for Segmented Devices and Identity for IoT Networks. Presented at 2023 IEEE 28th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Edinburgh, United Kingdom

In recent years, there has been a significant proliferation of industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications, with a wide variety of use cases being developed and put into operation. As the industrial IoT landscape expands, the establishment of se... Read More about PASSION: Permissioned Access Control for Segmented Devices and Identity for IoT Networks.

Blockchain-Based Authentication and Registration Mechanism for SIP-Based VoIP Systems (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. (2021, October). Blockchain-Based Authentication and Registration Mechanism for SIP-Based VoIP Systems. Presented at 2021 5th Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is the principal signalling protocol in Voice over IP (VoIP) systems, responsible for initialising, terminating, and maintaining sessions amongst call parties. However, the problem with the SIP protocol is that i... Read More about Blockchain-Based Authentication and Registration Mechanism for SIP-Based VoIP Systems.

A Decentralised Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Medical Wearable Sensors Data (2021)
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.

PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work Based Consensus Mechanism (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al-Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. (2020, December). PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work Based Consensus Mechanism. Presented at ICVISP 2020: The 2020 4th International Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Bangkok

The original consensus algorithm-Proof of Work (PoW) has been widely utilized in the blockchain systems and is been adopted by many cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, among many others. Nevertheless, the concept has received criticisms o... Read More about PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work Based Consensus Mechanism.