Advanced persistent threat and Insiders.
Presentation / Conference
Buchanan, W. J. (2015, January)
Advanced persistent threat and Insiders. Paper presented at Advanced Persistent Threat, London
With an increase in the range and mobility of devices which connect to the network, there are now so many opportunities for intruders to compromise systems. Leading with the r...
A Privacy preserving method using privacy enhancing techniques for location based services
Journal Article
Buchanan, W. J., Kwecka, Z., & Ekonomou, E. (2012)
A Privacy preserving method using privacy enhancing techniques for location based services. Mobile Networks and Applications, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-012-0362-6
Two of the major changes within computing, at the present time, are the move towards service-oriented architectures and the increasing usage of mobile devices to access these ...
Open-source Data Analysis and Machine Learning for Asthma Hospitalisation Rates
Conference Proceeding
Rooney, L., Chute, C., Buchanan, W. J., Smales, A., & Hepburn, L. (2018)
Open-source Data Analysis and Machine Learning for Asthma Hospitalisation Rates. In Proceedings of ThinkMind - GLOBAL HEALTH 2018, The Seventh International Conference on Global Health Challenges
Long-term conditions in Scotland account for 80% of all GP consultations; they also account for 60% of all deaths in Scotland. Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease...
If you seek to ‘switch off’ encryption, you may as well switch off the whole internet.
Other
Buchanan, W. J. (2015)
If you seek to ‘switch off’ encryption, you may as well switch off the whole internet
Prime Minister David Cameron has stated that the UK government will look at “switching off” some forms of encryption in order to make society safer from terror attacks. This m...
If Obama is talking about securing the net, it should be on everyone else’s lips too.
Other
Buchanan, W. J. (2015)
If Obama is talking about securing the net, it should be on everyone else’s lips too
We have spent years promoting the need for change in our approach to internet infrastructure, forcing politicians to recognise it as a serious issue. So it’s great to see Bara...
US hack shows data is the new frontier in cyber security conflict.
Other
Buchanan, W. J. (2015)
US hack shows data is the new frontier in cyber security conflict
More than four million personal records of US government workers are thought to have been hacked and stolen, it has been. With US investigators blaming the Chinese government ...
Secret shares to protect health records in Cloud-based infrastructures
Conference Proceeding
Buchanan, W. J., Ukwandu, E., van Deursen, N., Fan, L., Russell, G., Lo, O., & Thuemmler, C. (2016)
Secret shares to protect health records in Cloud-based infrastructures. In 2015 17th International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (HealthCom)https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2015.7454589
Increasingly health records are stored in cloud-based systems, and often protected by a private key. Unfortunately the loss of this key can cause large-scale data loss. This p...
When the ATM runs Windows, how safe is your money?
Other
Buchanan, W. J. (2014)
When the ATM runs Windows, how safe is your money?
How safe is Microsoft Windows? After all, the list of malware that has caused major headaches worldwide over the last 15 years is long – viruses, worms and Trojans have forced...
Predicting Malicious Insider Threat Scenarios Using Organizational Data and a Heterogeneous Stack-Classifier
Conference Proceeding
Hall, A. J., Pitropakis, N., Buchanan, W. J., & Moradpoor, N. (2019)
Predicting Malicious Insider Threat Scenarios Using Organizational Data and a Heterogeneous Stack-Classifier. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData.2018.8621922
Insider threats continue to present a major challenge for the information security community. Despite constant research taking place in this area; a substantial gap still exis...
The challenges of Big Data: future risks, governance and trust.
Presentation / Conference
Buchanan, W. J. (2013, March)
The challenges of Big Data: future risks, governance and trust. Paper presented at The Future of Cyber Security 2013, London, UK
The emphasis in computer security is moving from end point security towards data controls, and this is becoming an increasing threat as we move into an era build around Big Da...