Cyber Security

SecurityBudget: Cyber Security Budget Spending Companion for SMEs

SecurityBudget will be a cyber security dashboard to support SMEs on how to protect their systems subject to a limited available budget. Budget: £12.5k. Principal Investigator: Manos Panaousis, co-Investigator: George Loukas.

MERIT: A fraMEwoRk to Model and IncenTivise Cyber Security Investment Decisions

The MERIT addresses the challenge of how to take better cyber security investment decisions. It aims at minimising cyber security risks by optimally investing its budget for cyber controls. In a multi-disciplinary approach, it utilises both economics and cybersecurity engineering insights to significantly extend the state-of-the-art in decision support for cybersecurity spending.

Honeypot Type Selection Games for Smart Grid Networks

In this paper, we define a cyber deception game between the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) network administrator (henceforth, defender) and attacker. The defender decides to install between a low-interaction honeypot, high-interaction …

CUREX: seCUre and pRivate hEalth data eXchange

The Health sector’s increasing dependence on digital information and communication infrastructures renders it vulnerable to threats to privacy and cybersecurity, especially as the theft of health data has become particularly lucrative for cyber criminals.

SPEAR: Secure and PrivatE smArt gRid

Over the last decade, cyber-attacks have become increasingly sophisticated, stealthy, targeted and multi-faceted which may leverage zero-day exploits and highly creative interdisciplinary attack methods. As our society is becoming increasingly dependent on Critical INfrastructures (CIN), new technologies are needed to increase our detection and response capabilities.