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Cybersecurity

The Cybersecurity (CYS) group studies design, modelling, analysis, verification and testing of networks and systems in order to tackle cybersecurity and privacy problems that are important to industry, society and everyone living in a technologically dependent world.

Our research is both theoretical and applied, and includes:
(i) AI and machine learning for cybersecurity and privacy
(ii) formal and automated approaches for verification and testing of cybersecurity and privacy
(iii) provenance, trust, transparency, explainability, usability and human factors in cybersecurity and privacy
(iv) systems security
(v) AI security, transparency, ethics and privacy
(vi) cybercrime forensics and statistics.

Numerous applications include network security solutions, malware, socio-technical systems, cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, social networks, autonomous systems, e-health.

CYS is part of the cross-departmental KCL Cybersecurity Centre (an EPSRC-NCSC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research) and also collaborates with government and law-enforcement agencies.

Members

Ruba Abu-Salma

Lecturer in Computer Science

Camille Bigot

Camille Bigot

PhD Student

Kovila Coopamootoo

Lecturer in Computer Science

Giulio De Pasquale

Giulio De Pasquale

PhD Student

Jide Edu

PhD Student

Xavier Ferrer Aran

Research Associate

Dong Huynh

Dong Huynh

Research Fellow

Tasmina Islam

Lecturer in Cybersecurity Education

Ashwini Kumar Singh

Research Associate

Ievgeniia Kuzminykh

Ievgeniia Kuzminykh

Lecturer in Cybersecurity (Education)

Luc Moreau

Luc Moreau

Head of Department of Informatics

Francesca Mosca

Francesca Mosca

PhD Student

Richard Overill

Richard Overill

Visiting Senior Research Fellow in Computer Science

Fabio Pierazzi

Lecturer in Computer Science

Maher Salem

Lecturer in Cybersecurity Education

William Seymour

William Seymour

Research Associate

Guillermo Suarez de Tangil

Guillermo Suarez de Tangil

Lecturer in Computer Science

Jose Such

Jose Such

Professor of Computer Science

Luca Viganò

Luca Viganò

Vice-Dean (Enterprise and Engagement) and Head of Cybersecurity Group

Hannan Xiao

Hannan Xiao

Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity

Can you meaningfully consent in eight seconds? Identifying Ethical Issues with Verbal Consent for Voice Assistants
Seymour, W., Coté, M. & Such, J., 1 Aug 2022, Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces. ACM Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1145/3543829.3544521
When It's Not Worth the Paper It's Written On: A Provocation on the Certification of Skills in the Alexa and Google Assistant Ecosystems
Seymour, W., Coté, M. & Such, J., 1 Aug 2022, Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces. ACM Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1145/3543829.3544513
A Model for Governing Information Sharing in Smart Assistants
Zhan, N., Sarkadi, S., Criado Pacheco, N. & Such, J., Aug 2022, (Accepted/In press) AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. AAAI Press, 11 p. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Explainability-by-Design: A Methodology to Support Explanations in Decision-Making Systems
Huynh, T. D., Tsakalakis, N., Helal, A., Stalla-Bourdillon, S. & Moreau, L., 13 Jun 2022, 12 p. Research output: Book/Report › Report
Perceptions of beauty in security ceremonies
Bella, G., Ophoff, J., Renaud, K., Sempreboni, D. & Viganò, L., 11 Jun 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Philosophy & Technology. 35 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Privacy as Reachability
Gondron, S., Moedersheim, S. & Viganò, L., 31 May 2022, 35th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF 2022). IEEE Computer Society Press, 17 p. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
WoRMA '22: 1st Workshop on Robust Malware Analysis
Pierazzi, F. & Srndic, N., 30 May 2022, ASIA CCS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 1271-1272 2 p. (ASIA CCS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security). Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1145/3488932.3517205
Intersectional Experiences of Unfair Treatment Caused by Automated Computational Systems
van Nuenen, T., Such, J. & Coté, M., 22 May 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - CSCW. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Transcending TRANSCEND: Revisiting Malware Classification in the Presence of Concept Drift
Barbero, F., Pendlebury, F., Pierazzi, F. & Cavallaro, L., May 2022, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P). 43rd ed. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
Formal Methods for Socio-technical Security: (Formal and Automated Analysis of Security Ceremonies)
Viganò, L., 29 Apr 2022, Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION 2022). 12 p. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

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Seminars

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Current vacancies in the group will be listed here.

Group lead

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Luca Viganò

Vice-Dean (Enterprise and Engagement) and Head of Cybersecurity Group

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