University of Kent

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ESRs

Mohamad Imad Mahaini
Links:
Personal Page, Linkedin Profile
Topic:
Modelling and analysing trust and influence in social networks
Research Work

Modelling and Analysing Trust and Influence in Social Networks.

The main topic of research of ESR-15 is about the "influence" and "trust" in Online Social Networks (OSN). Its objectives are:

  1. Study the socio-technical aspects that have a significant relevance to cyber-security analysis and operations.
  2. Develop socio-technical systems that enable modelling and analysing trust and influence in social networks (public and private) and in adversary groups and communities.

The research will focus on how trust, advice and influence impact on:

  1. Social networks that include cyber-security professionals or other personnel involved in cyber-security operations.
  2. Social networks used by adversaries for coordinating or enacting cyber-attacks.

We aim to build a hybrid approach that combine methods from Computer Science and Psychology in order to better understand what makes the OSN users “influencers” and how “Trust” occurred between users. Our focus is the Cybersecurity context where we consider only the topics, events and discussions that are related to Cybersecurity domains.

This project will also consider regulatory and legal aspects (including privacy) that underpin the ethical and lawful conduct of such analyses.

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Adham Albakri
Links:
Linkedin Profile, Personal Page
Topic:
Privacy-and-Secrecy-preserving, secure processing of big-data/EU policy complilance
Research Work

Our research will include studying privacy preservation mechanisms in big data and presenting the challenges for existing mechanisms. Besides, the research endeavors to improve existing data protection methods and develop new scalable data protection techniques for big-data focusing particularly on big-data hosting, analysis, and processing in the cloud. The project will develop novel privacy and secrecy preserving techniques for the analysis of big data in the cloud and novel protection techniques ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of big-data. Moreover, the research will develop novel techniques for secure transformation and processing of big data in the cloud without compromising privacy or confidentiality and securely perform privacy-preserving analysis of significant open data without compromising the secrecy of the analysis.
Particular emphasis will be placed on ensuring compliance with European cyber-security directive and with regulatory requirements and recommendations for privacy data protection as well as ensuring alignment with the European Cloud strategy.

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