Thomas Tan

Dr Thomas Tan

Lecturer in Cybersecurity

Z.Tan@napier.ac.uk

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Biography

Dr Zhiyuan Tan (BEng, MEng, Ph.D.) is a Lecturer in Cybersecurity at the School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University (ENU), United Kingdom. He is a Member of IEEE and EAI. His research interests include cybersecurity, machine learning, pattern recognition, data analytics, virtualisation and cyber-physical system.

Prior to joining ENU in 2016, Dr Tan held different research positions at three research intensive universities, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Cybersecurity at the University of Twente (UT), the Netherlands from 2014 to 2016; a Research Associate at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia in 2014; and a Senior Research Assistant at La Trobe University, Australia in 2013.

Dr Tan has active collaborations with fellow faculty at the University of Twente and fellow cyber security faculty from Eindhoven University of Technology. He also has long-term collaborations with international acclaimed scholars from UTS, CSIRO and University of New South Wales.

His research findings have been published in world leading journals such as IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Computer Networks (CN) and in prestigious international conferences including IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE TrustCom and ICONIP.

Dr Tan has been invited to serve as a reviewer for top journals, including IEEE TPDS, IEEE TC, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (T-IFS), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), FGCS, and Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA).

He has played various chair roles in International workshops and conferences, such as SECSOC, SITN, EAI Future 5V and EAI BD:TA 2018. He serves on the editorial board of International Journal of Computer Sciences and its Applications. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Access and has organised Special Issues for Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks Journal, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Computers & Electrical Engineering, IEEE Access, etc.

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School of Computing

Research Groups

Centre for Distributed Computing, Networking and Security

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Conference Activity

Organiser, Special Session on Industrial Automation and Process System’s Security for IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE’17)
Organiser and Chair, The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Secure Smart Society in Next Generation Networks (SECSOC2017) held in conjunction with The 16th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications (IEEE TrustCom-17)
Publication Co-chair, The 2nd EAI International Conference on Future Intelligent Vehicular Technologies (Future 5V)
TPC Member, The 16th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications (TrustCom 2017)
TPC Member, The 9th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS 2017)
Organiser and Chair, The Second International Workshop on Securing IoT Networks 2018 (SITN-2018)
Organiser and Chair, The Second International Workshop on Secure Smart Societies in Next Generation Networks (SECSOC 2018)
Program Chair, The 8th EAI International Conference on Big Data Technologies and Applications (BD:TA 2018)
TPC Member, The 2nd International Workshop on Cyberspace Security (IWCSS 2018)
TPC Member, The 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications (TrustCom 2018)
TPC Member, The 2018 the International Conference on Software and Services Engineering (ICSSE2018)
TPC Member, The 2017 World Symposium on Computer Applications & Research (WSCAR 2017)
TPC Member, The Third International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA'17)
TPC Member, The 2018 International Workshop on Privacy, Security and Trust in Computational Intelligence (PSTCI 2018)
Publicity Chair, The 10th International Workshop on Security in e-Science and e-Research (ISSR 2018)
Organiser, International Symposium on Advances in High Performance Computing and Networking (AHPCN-2018)
Organiser and Chair, International Workshop on Securing IoT Networks 2017 (SITN-2017) held in conjunction with The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings-2017)

Editorial Activity

Guest Editor, Special Issue on Secure Smart Society in Next Generation Networking Paradigm, Journal of Cyber Security Technology, Print ISSN: 2374-2917 Online ISSN: 2374-2925
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Moving from Wireless Sensor Networks towards the Internet of Things: Future Trends and Research Challenges, Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks Journal, ISSN: 1551-9899
Editorial Board Member, The International Journal of Computer Sciences and its Applications
Guest Editor, Special section on Security and Trusted Computing for Industrial Internet of Things, IEEE Access, ISSN: 2169-3536
Associate Editor, IEEE Access, ISSN: 2169-3536
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Security and Privacy for Smart Cities: Challenges and Opportunities, Computers and Electrical Engineering, ISSN: 0045-7906
Guest Editor, Special Collection on Advances in Cyber Physical Social Systems, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, ISSN: 15501477

Membership of Professional Body

Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Member of European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)
Member of British Computer Society (BCS)

Research Degree External Examining

Ph.D. degree external examiner for Charles Sturt University, Australia

Invited Speaker

An Invited Talk on Internet of Things and Its Security at the Dongguan University of Technology, China, December 2017

Fellowships and Awards

The National Research Award 2017 - The Research Council of the Sultanate of Oman
IEEE Outstanding Service Award
Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing 2016 - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, ISSN: 1084-8045
Finalist of Asia-Pacific & MEA Round, Kaspersky Lab’s Annual Student Conference ‘CyberSecurity for the Next Generation’ 2013
Best Paper Award - The 1st International Conference on Security of Internet of Things
Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing 2017 - Future Generation Computer Systems, ISSN: 0167-739X

Reviewing

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (T-IFS)
IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)
IEEE Access
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)
Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA)
Applied Computing and Informatics (ACI)
Information Sciences (INS)
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS)
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE)
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (ToIT)
Security and Communication Networks (SCN)
Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS)
IET Networks
Journal of Cyber Security Technology
Reviewing a book proposal for Blockchains for Network Security for IET

A Chain Topology for Efficient Monitoring of Food Grain Storage Using Smart Sensors

Mishra, A., Tripathy, A., Obaidat, M., Tan, Z., Prasad, M., Sadoun, B., & Puthal, D. (in press). A Chain Topology for Efficient Monitoring of Food Grain Storage Using Smart Sensors. In Conference Proceedings
Mishra, A., Tripathy, A., Obaidat, M., Tan, Z., Prasad, M., Sadoun, B., & Puthal, D. (in press). A Chain Topology for Efficient Monitoring of Food Grain Storage Using Smart Sensors. In Conference Proceedings

Due to lack of an efficient monitoring system to periodically record environmental parameters for food grain storage, a huge loss of food grains in storage is reported every y...

2018
A framework for data security in cloud using collaborative intrusion detection scheme

Nagar, U., Nanda, P., He, X., & Tan, Z. (. (2017). A framework for data security in cloud using collaborative intrusion detection scheme. In Proceedings of 10th International Conference On Security Of Information And Networks, 188-193. doi:10.1145/3136825.3136905
Nagar, U., Nanda, P., He, X., & Tan, Z. (. (2017). A framework for data security in cloud using collaborative intrusion detection scheme. In Proceedings of 10th International Conference On Security Of Information And Networks, 188-193. doi:10.1145/3136825.3136905

Cloud computing offers an on demand, elastic, global network access to a shared pool of resources that can be configured on user demand. It offers a unique pay-as-you go featu...

2017
An Intrusion Detection System Based on Polynomial Feature Correlation Analysis

Li, Q., Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., Nanda, P., He, X., & Han, W. (2017). An Intrusion Detection System Based on Polynomial Feature Correlation Analysis. In 2017 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ISPA Conference Proceedingsdoi:10.1109/trustcom/bigdatase/icess.2017.340
Li, Q., Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., Nanda, P., He, X., & Han, W. (2017). An Intrusion Detection System Based on Polynomial Feature Correlation Analysis. In 2017 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ISPA Conference Proceedingsdoi:10.1109/trustcom/bigdatase/icess.2017.340

This paper proposes an anomaly-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS), which flags anomalous network traffic with a distance-based classifier. A polynomial approach was design...

2017
An Improvement of Tree-Rule Firewall for a Large Network: Supporting Large Rule Size and Low Delay

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/ISPA, 178-184. doi:10.1109/trustcom.2016.0061
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/ISPA, 178-184. doi: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 pac...

2017
A Stateful Mechanism for the Tree-Rule Firewall

Chomsiri, T., He, X., Nanda, P. & Tan, Z. (2014). A Stateful Mechanism for the Tree-Rule Firewall. In 2014 IEEE 13th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 122-129. doi:10.1109/trustcom.2014.20. ISBN 978-1-4799-6513-7
Chomsiri, T., He, X., Nanda, P. & Tan, Z. (2014). A Stateful Mechanism for the Tree-Rule Firewall. In 2014 IEEE 13th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 122-129. doi:10.1109/trustcom.2014.20. ISBN 978-1-4799-6513-7

In this paper, we propose a novel connection tracking mechanism for Tree-rule firewall which essentially organizes firewall rules in a designated Tree structure. A new firewal...

2014
Towards Designing an Email Classification System Using Multi-view Based Semi-supervised Learning

Li, W., Meng, W., Tan, Z. & Xiang, Y. (2014). Towards Designing an Email Classification System Using Multi-view Based Semi-supervised Learning. In 2014 IEEE 13th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications,, 174-181. doi:10.1109/trustcom.2014.26. ISBN 978-1-4799-6513-7
Li, W., Meng, W., Tan, Z. & Xiang, Y. (2014). Towards Designing an Email Classification System Using Multi-view Based Semi-supervised Learning. In 2014 IEEE 13th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications,, 174-181. doi:10.1109/trustcom.2014.26. ISBN 978-1-4799-6513-7

The goal of email classification is to classify user emails into spam and legitimate ones. Many supervised learning algorithms have been invented in this domain to accomplish ...

2014
A Robust Authentication Scheme for Observing Resources in the Internet of Things Environment

Jan, M. A., Nanda, P., He, X., Tan, Z. & Liu, R. P. (2014). A Robust Authentication Scheme for Observing Resources in the Internet of Things Environment. In 2014 IEEE 13th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 205-211. doi:10.1109/trustcom.2014.31. ISBN 978-1-4799-6513-7
Jan, M. A., Nanda, P., He, X., Tan, Z. & Liu, R. P. (2014). A Robust Authentication Scheme for Observing Resources in the Internet of Things Environment. In 2014 IEEE 13th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 205-211. doi:10.1109/trustcom.2014.31. ISBN 978-1-4799-6513-7

The Internet of Things is a vision that broadens the scope of the internet by incorporating physical objects to identify themselves to the participating entities. This innovat...

2014
A Novel Feature Selection Approach for Intrusion Detection Data Classification

Ambusaidi, M. A., He, X., Tan, Z., Nanda, P., Lu, L. F. & Nagar, U. T. (2014). A Novel Feature Selection Approach for Intrusion Detection Data Classification. doi:10.1109/trustcom.2014.15. ISBN 978-1-4799-6513-7
Ambusaidi, M. A., He, X., Tan, Z., Nanda, P., Lu, L. F. & Nagar, U. T. (2014). A Novel Feature Selection Approach for Intrusion Detection Data Classification. doi:10.1109/trustcom.2014.15. ISBN 978-1-4799-6513-7

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) play a significant role in monitoring and analyzing daily activities occurring in computer systems to detect occurrences of security threats...

2014
Evaluation on multivariate correlation analysis based denial-of-service attack detection system

Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., Nanda, P., He, X. & Liu, R. P. (2012). Evaluation on multivariate correlation analysis based denial-of-service attack detection system. In SecurIT '12 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Security of Internet of Things, 160-164. doi:10.1145/2490428.2490450. ISBN 9781450318228
Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., Nanda, P., He, X. & Liu, R. P. (2012). Evaluation on multivariate correlation analysis based denial-of-service attack detection system. In SecurIT '12 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Security of Internet of Things, 160-164. doi:10.1145/2490428.2490450. ISBN 9781450318228

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 ne...

2012
Triangle-Area-Based Multivariate Correlation Analysis for Effective Denial-of-Service Attack Detection

Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., Nanda, P. & Liu, R. P. (2012). Triangle-Area-Based Multivariate Correlation Analysis for Effective Denial-of-Service Attack Detection. doi:10.1109/trustcom.2012.284. ISBN 978-1-4673-2172-3; 978-0-7695-4745-9
Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., Nanda, P. & Liu, R. P. (2012). Triangle-Area-Based Multivariate Correlation Analysis for Effective Denial-of-Service Attack Detection. doi:10.1109/trustcom.2012.284. ISBN 978-1-4673-2172-3; 978-0-7695-4745-9

Cloud computing plays an important role in current converged networks. It brings convenience of accessing services and information to users regardless of location and time. Ho...

2012
Intrusion detection using GSAD model for HTTP traffic on web services

Jamdagni, A., Tan, Z., Nanda, P., He, X. & Liu, R. P. (2010). Intrusion detection using GSAD model for HTTP traffic on web services. In IWCMC '10 Proceedings of the 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, 1193-1197. doi:10.1145/1815396.1815669. ISBN 9781450300629
Jamdagni, A., Tan, Z., Nanda, P., He, X. & Liu, R. P. (2010). Intrusion detection using GSAD model for HTTP traffic on web services. In IWCMC '10 Proceedings of the 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, 1193-1197. doi:10.1145/1815396.1815669. ISBN 9781450300629

Intrusion detection systems are widely used security tools to detect cyber-attacks and malicious activities in computer systems and networks. Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTT...

2010
Network Intrusion Detection based on LDA for payload feature selection

Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X. & Nanda, P. (2010). Network Intrusion Detection based on LDA for payload feature selection. In 2010 IEEE Globecom Workshopsdoi:10.1109/glocomw.2010.5700198. ISBN 978-1-4244-8863-6,
Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X. & Nanda, P. (2010). Network Intrusion Detection based on LDA for payload feature selection. In 2010 IEEE Globecom Workshopsdoi:10.1109/glocomw.2010.5700198. ISBN 978-1-4244-8863-6,
Intrusion Detection Using Geometrical Structure

Jamdagni, A., Tan, Z., Nanda, P., He, X. & Liu, R. (2009). Intrusion Detection Using Geometrical Structure. In Fourth International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, 2009. FCST '09, 327-333. doi:10.1109/fcst.2009.97. ISBN 978-1-4244-5466-2; 978-0-7695-3932-4
Jamdagni, A., Tan, Z., Nanda, P., He, X. & Liu, R. (2009). Intrusion Detection Using Geometrical Structure. In Fourth International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, 2009. FCST '09, 327-333. doi:10.1109/fcst.2009.97. ISBN 978-1-4244-5466-2; 978-0-7695-3932-4

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 ...
Building Scalable Cyber-Physical-Social Networking Infrastructure Using IoT and Low Power Sensors

Lenka, R. K., Rath, A. K., Tan, Z., Sharma, S., Puthal, D., Simha, N. V. R., …Tripathi, S. S. (2018). Building Scalable Cyber-Physical-Social Networking Infrastructure Using IoT and Low Power Sensors. IEEE Access, 6, (30162-30173). doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2842760
Lenka, R. K., Rath, A. K., Tan, Z., Sharma, S., Puthal, D., Simha, N. V. R., …Tripathi, S. S. (2018). Building Scalable Cyber-Physical-Social Networking Infrastructure Using IoT and Low Power Sensors. IEEE Access, 6, (30162-30173). doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2842760

Wireless Sensors are an important component to develop the Internet of Things (IoT) Sensing infrastructure. There are enormous numbers of sensors connected with each other to ...

2018
Performance of Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks Using Hybrid Automatic Repeat ReQuest: Stop-and-Wait

Khan, F., ur Rehman, A., Usman, M., Tan, Z., & Puthal, D. (2018). Performance of Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks Using Hybrid Automatic Repeat ReQuest: Stop-and-Wait. Mobile Networks and Applications, doi:10.1007/s11036-018-1020-4. ISSN 1383-469X
Khan, F., ur Rehman, A., Usman, M., Tan, Z., & Puthal, D. (2018). Performance of Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks Using Hybrid Automatic Repeat ReQuest: Stop-and-Wait. Mobile Networks and Applications, doi:10.1007/s11036-018-1020-4. ISSN 1383-469X

The enormous developments in the field of wireless communication technologies have made the unlicensed spectrum bands crowded, resulting uncontrolled interference to the tradi...

2018
An Approach to Evolving Legacy Enterprise System to Microservice-based Architecture through Feature-driven Evolution Rules

Habibullah, S., Liu, X., & Tan, Z. (in press). An Approach to Evolving Legacy Enterprise System to Microservice-based Architecture through Feature-driven Evolution Rules. International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering, ISSN 1793-8201
Habibullah, S., Liu, X., & Tan, Z. (in press). An Approach to Evolving Legacy Enterprise System to Microservice-based Architecture through Feature-driven Evolution Rules. International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering, ISSN 1793-8201

Evolving legacy enterprise systems into a lean system architecture has been on the agendas of many enterprises. Recent advance in legacy system evaluation is in favour of micr...

2017
Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare

Saleem, K., Tan, Z., & Buchanan, W. (2016). Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare. In Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare, 233-251. BioMed Central. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47617-9_12
Saleem, K., Tan, Z., & Buchanan, W. (2016). Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare. In Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare, 233-251. BioMed Central. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47617-9_12

The great leap forward of cyber-physical systems has made provision for future personalized medicine. However, these systems are prone to cyber attacks. To provide patients wi...

2017
Building an Intrusion Detection System Using a Filter-Based Feature Selection Algorithm

Ambusaidi, M. A., He, X., Nanda, P., & Tan, Z. (2016). Building an Intrusion Detection System Using a Filter-Based Feature Selection Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 65(10), (2986-2998). doi:10.1109/tc.2016.2519914. ISSN 0018-9340
Ambusaidi, M. A., He, X., Nanda, P., & Tan, Z. (2016). Building an Intrusion Detection System Using a Filter-Based Feature Selection Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 65(10), (2986-2998). doi:10.1109/tc.2016.2519914. ISSN 0018-9340

Redundant and irrelevant features in data have caused a long-term problem in network traffic classification. These features not only slow down the process of classification bu...

2016
Hybrid Tree-rule Firewall for High Speed Data Transmission

Chomsiri, T., He, X., Nanda, P., & Tan, Z. (2016). Hybrid Tree-rule Firewall for High Speed Data Transmission. IEEE transactions on cloud computing, (1-1). doi:10.1109/tcc.2016.2554548. ISSN 2168-7161
Chomsiri, T., He, X., Nanda, P., & Tan, Z. (2016). Hybrid Tree-rule Firewall for High Speed Data Transmission. IEEE transactions on cloud computing, (1-1). doi:10.1109/tcc.2016.2554548. ISSN 2168-7161

Traditional firewalls employ listed rules in both configuration and process phases to regulate network traffic. However, configuring a firewall with listed rules may create ru...

2016
Detection of Denial-of-Service Attacks Based on Computer Vision Techniques

Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., Nanda, P., Liu, R. P. & Hu, J. (2015). Detection of Denial-of-Service Attacks Based on Computer Vision Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Computers. 64(9), 2519-2533. doi:10.1109/tc.2014.2375218. ISSN 0018-9340
Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., Nanda, P., Liu, R. P. & Hu, J. (2015). Detection of Denial-of-Service Attacks Based on Computer Vision Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Computers. 64(9), 2519-2533. doi:10.1109/tc.2014.2375218. ISSN 0018-9340

Detection of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks has attracted researchers since 1990s. A variety of detection systems has been proposed to achieve this task. Unlike the existing ...

2014
Enhancing Big Data Security with Collaborative Intrusion Detection

Tan, Z., Nagar, U. T., He, X., Nanda, P., Liu, R. P., Wang, S. & Hu, J. (2014). Enhancing Big Data Security with Collaborative Intrusion Detection. IEEE cloud computing. 1(3), 27-33. doi:10.1109/mcc.2014.53. ISSN 2325-6095
Tan, Z., Nagar, U. T., He, X., Nanda, P., Liu, R. P., Wang, S. & Hu, J. (2014). Enhancing Big Data Security with Collaborative Intrusion Detection. IEEE cloud computing. 1(3), 27-33. doi:10.1109/mcc.2014.53. ISSN 2325-6095

Big data, often stored in cloud networks, is changing our business models and applications. Rich information residing in big data is driving business decision making to be a d...

2014
A System for Denial-of-Service Attack Detection Based on Multivariate Correlation Analysis

Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., Nanda, P. & Liu, R. (2014). A System for Denial-of-Service Attack Detection Based on Multivariate Correlation Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 25(2), 447-456. doi:10.1109/tpds.2013.146. ISSN 1045-9219
Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., Nanda, P. & Liu, R. (2014). A System for Denial-of-Service Attack Detection Based on Multivariate Correlation Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 25(2), 447-456. doi:10.1109/tpds.2013.146. ISSN 1045-9219

Interconnected systems, such as Web servers, database servers, cloud computing servers and so on, are now under threads from network attackers. As one of most common and aggre...

2014
Intrusion detection method based on nonlinear correlation measure

Ambusaidi, M. A., Tan, Z., He, X., Nanda, P., Lu, L. F. & Jamdagni, A. (2013). Intrusion detection method based on nonlinear correlation measure. International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology. 8(2/3), 77. doi:10.1504/ijipt.2014.066377. ISSN 1743-8209
Ambusaidi, M. A., Tan, Z., He, X., Nanda, P., Lu, L. F. & Jamdagni, A. (2013). Intrusion detection method based on nonlinear correlation measure. International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology. 8(2/3), 77. doi:10.1504/ijipt.2014.066377. ISSN 1743-8209

Cyber crimes and malicious network activities have posed serious threats to the entire internet and its users. This issue is becoming more critical, as network-based services,...

2013
Improving cloud network security using the Tree-Rule firewall

He, X., Chomsiri, T., Nanda, P. & Tan, Z. (2013). Improving cloud network security using the Tree-Rule firewall. Future Generation Computer Systems. 30, 116-126. doi:10.1016/j.future.2013.06.024. ISSN 0167-739X
He, X., Chomsiri, T., Nanda, P. & Tan, Z. (2013). Improving cloud network security using the Tree-Rule firewall. Future Generation Computer Systems. 30, 116-126. doi:10.1016/j.future.2013.06.024. ISSN 0167-739X

This study proposes a new model of firewall called the ‘Tree-Rule Firewall’, which offers various benefits and is applicable for large networks such as ‘cloud’ networks. The r...

2013
RePIDS: A multi tier Real-time Payload-based Intrusion Detection System

Jamdagni, A., Tan, Z., He, X., Nanda, P. & Liu, R. P. (2013). RePIDS: A multi tier Real-time Payload-based Intrusion Detection System. Computer Networks. 57(3), 811-824. doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2012.10.002. ISSN 1389-1286
Jamdagni, A., Tan, Z., He, X., Nanda, P. & Liu, R. P. (2013). RePIDS: A multi tier Real-time Payload-based Intrusion Detection System. Computer Networks. 57(3), 811-824. doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2012.10.002. ISSN 1389-1286

Intrusion Detection System (IDS) deals with huge amount of network traffic and uses large feature set to discriminate normal pattern and intrusive pattern. However, most of ex...

2012
Multivariate Correlation Analysis Technique Based on Euclidean Distance Map for Network Traffic Characterization

Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., Nanda, P. & Liu, R. P. (2010). Multivariate Correlation Analysis Technique Based on Euclidean Distance Map for Network Traffic Characterization. In Information and Communications Security; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 388-398. Springer Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-25243-3_31. ISBN 978-3-642-25242-6; 978-3-642-25243-3
Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., Nanda, P. & Liu, R. P. (2010). Multivariate Correlation Analysis Technique Based on Euclidean Distance Map for Network Traffic Characterization. In Information and Communications Security; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 388-398. Springer Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-25243-3_31. ISBN 978-3-642-25242-6; 978-3-642-25243-3

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 ch...
A Two-Tier System for Web Attack Detection Using Linear Discriminant Method

Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., Nanda, P., Liu, R. P., Jia, W. & Yeh, W. (2009). A Two-Tier System for Web Attack Detection Using Linear Discriminant Method. In Information and Communications Security; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 459-471. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-17650-0_32. ISBN 978-3-642-17649-4; 978-3-642-17650-0
Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., Nanda, P., Liu, R. P., Jia, W. & Yeh, W. (2009). A Two-Tier System for Web Attack Detection Using Linear Discriminant Method. In Information and Communications Security; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 459-471. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-17650-0_32. ISBN 978-3-642-17649-4; 978-3-642-17650-0

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 detecti...
Denial-of-Service Attack Detection Based on Multivariate Correlation Analysis

Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., Nanda, P. & Liu, R. P. (2010). Denial-of-Service Attack Detection Based on Multivariate Correlation Analysis. In Neural Information Processing; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 756-765. Springer Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24965-5_85. ISBN 978-3-642-24964-8; 978-3-642-24965-5
Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., Nanda, P. & Liu, R. P. (2010). Denial-of-Service Attack Detection Based on Multivariate Correlation Analysis. In Neural Information Processing; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 756-765. Springer Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24965-5_85. ISBN 978-3-642-24964-8; 978-3-642-24965-5

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 detecti...
Generation of Network Behaviour Descriptions Using MCA Based on TAM

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, Singapore
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, Singapore

In this paper, a multivariate correlation analysis technique based on triangle area map is introduced. The technique is applied for network traffic characterization and provid...

2013
A nonlinear correlation measure for Intrusion Detection

Ambusaidi, M., Lu, L. F., He, X., Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., & Nanda, P. (2012, November). A nonlinear correlation measure for Intrusion Detection. Paper presented at The 7th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST-12), Zhangjiajie, China
Ambusaidi, M., Lu, L. F., He, X., Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., & Nanda, P. (2012, November). A nonlinear correlation measure for Intrusion Detection. Paper presented at The 7th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST-12), Zhangjiajie, China

The popularity of using internet contains some risks of network attacks. It has attracted the attention of many researchers to overcome this problem. One of the effective ways...

2012

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

"Network Denial-of-Service Attack Detection Using Image Retrieval", SoCC Incentive Grant, School of Computing and Communications, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
"Intrusion Detection in Peer-to-Peer Systems Using Statistical Techniques", CSIRO UTS ICT Top-up Scholarship CSIRO, Marsfiled, Australia

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A Chain Topology for Efficient Monitoring of Food Grain Storage Using Smart Sensors

A framework for data security in cloud using collaborative intrusion detection scheme

An Intrusion Detection System Based on Polynomial Feature Correlation Analysis

An Improvement of Tree-Rule Firewall for a Large Network: Supporting Large Rule Size and Low Delay

A Stateful Mechanism for the Tree-Rule Firewall

Towards Designing an Email Classification System Using Multi-view Based Semi-supervised Learning

A Robust Authentication Scheme for Observing Resources in the Internet of Things Environment

A Novel Feature Selection Approach for Intrusion Detection Data Classification

Evaluation on multivariate correlation analysis based denial-of-service attack detection system

Triangle-Area-Based Multivariate Correlation Analysis for Effective Denial-of-Service Attack Detection

Intrusion detection using GSAD model for HTTP traffic on web services

Network Intrusion Detection based on LDA for payload feature selection

Intrusion Detection Using Geometrical Structure

Building Scalable Cyber-Physical-Social Networking Infrastructure Using IoT and Low Power Sensors

Performance of Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks Using Hybrid Automatic Repeat ReQuest: Stop-and-Wait

An Approach to Evolving Legacy Enterprise System to Microservice-based Architecture through Feature-driven Evolution Rules

Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare

Building an Intrusion Detection System Using a Filter-Based Feature Selection Algorithm

Hybrid Tree-rule Firewall for High Speed Data Transmission

Detection of Denial-of-Service Attacks Based on Computer Vision Techniques

Enhancing Big Data Security with Collaborative Intrusion Detection

A System for Denial-of-Service Attack Detection Based on Multivariate Correlation Analysis

Intrusion detection method based on nonlinear correlation measure

Improving cloud network security using the Tree-Rule firewall

RePIDS: A multi tier Real-time Payload-based Intrusion Detection System

Multivariate Correlation Analysis Technique Based on Euclidean Distance Map for Network Traffic Characterization

A Two-Tier System for Web Attack Detection Using Linear Discriminant Method

Denial-of-Service Attack Detection Based on Multivariate Correlation Analysis

Generation of Network Behaviour Descriptions Using MCA Based on TAM

A nonlinear correlation measure for Intrusion Detection

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Current Post Grad projects

Application of evolutionary machine learning in metamorphic malware analysis and detection - Ms Kehinde Babaagba, Dr Thomas Tan (Director Of Studies), Prof Emma Hart

An approach to evolving legacy enterprise systems to cloud-based lean microservices - Safa Habibullah, Prof Xiaodong Liu, Dr Thomas Tan (Second Supervisor), Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai

Exploiting the mobility patterns of mobile sink nodes to improve the efficiency of duty-cycling and routing in wireless sensor networks - Craig Thomson, Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai, Dr Thomas Tan (Second Supervisor), Prof Emma Hart

Detection of cyberbullying on social media by sentiment analysis - Lulwah Alharigy, Dr Naghmeh Moradpoor Sheykhkanloo, Dr Thomas Tan (Second Supervisor), Prof Emma Hart

An investigation of olfactory augmentation of virtual reality experiences - Andrew McKelvey, Dr Richard Hetherington, Dr Augusto Abreu Esteves, Dr Gregory Leplatre, Dr Thomas Tan