ARCA-IoT: An Attack-Resilient Cloud-Assisted IoT System
Journal Article
Javaid, S., Afzal, H., Babar, M., Arif, F., Tan, Z., & Jan, M. A. (2019)
ARCA-IoT: An Attack-Resilient Cloud-Assisted IoT System. IEEE Access, 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2897095
Putting trust in the world of the Internet of Things, where served and serving entities are often unknown, is very hard especially when personal and business information is of...
Top 10 Blockchain Predictions for the (Near) Future of Healthcare
Journal Article
Halamka, J. D., Alterovitz, G., Buchanan, W. J., Cenaj, T., Clauson, K. A., Dhillon, V., …Ngo, A. L. (2019)
Top 10 Blockchain Predictions for the (Near) Future of Healthcare. Blockchain in Healthcare Today, 2, doi:10.30953/bhty.v2.106
To review blockchain lessons learned in 2018 and near-future predictions for blockchain in healthcare, Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY) asked the world's blockchain in he...
SmartEdge: An end-to-end encryption framework for an edge-enabled smart city application.
Journal Article
Jan, M. A., Zhang, W., Usman, M., Tan, Z., Khan, F., & Luo, E. (2019)
SmartEdge: An end-to-end encryption framework for an edge-enabled smart city application. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 137, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2019.02.023
The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to transform communities around the globe into smart cities. The massive deployment of sensor-embedded devices in the smart citi...
PLC Memory Attack Detection and Response in a Clean Water Supply System
Journal Article
Robles-Durazno, A., Moradpoor, N., McWhinnie, J., Russell, G., & Maneru-Marin, I. (2019)
PLC Memory Attack Detection and Response in a Clean Water Supply System. International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 26, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcip.2019.05.003
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are frequently used in manufacturing and critical infrastructures like water treatment, chemical plants, and transportation schemes. Citizens ...
System and method for management of confidential data
Patent
Buchanan, B., Lo, O., Macfarlane, R., Penrose, P., & Ramsay, B. (in press)
System and method for management of confidential data. GB2561176A
This application is for a method of data management to identify confidential digital content on a database by first receiving a management request 302 from a system 304 to car...
Method for identification of digital content
Patent
Buchanan, B., Lo, O., Penrose, P., Ramsay, B., & Macfarlane, R. (2018)
Method for identification of digital content. World Intellectual Property Organization
Many areas oi investigation require searching through data that may be oi interest. One example oi data that may be involved in an investigation is copyrighted material that m...
A Comprehensive Survey of Security Threats and their Mitigation Techniques for next-generation SDN Controllers
Journal Article
Han, T., Jan, S., Tan, T., Usman, M., Jan, M., Khan, R., & Xu, Y. (2020)
A Comprehensive Survey of Security Threats and their Mitigation Techniques for next-generation SDN Controllers. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 32(16), https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.5300
Software De ned Network (SDN) and Network Virtualization (NV) are emerged paradigms that simpli ed the control and management of the next generation networks, most importantly...
Decrypting Live SSH Traffic in Virtual Environments
Journal Article
Mclaren, P., Russell, G., Buchanan, W. J., & Tan, Z. (2019)
Decrypting Live SSH Traffic in Virtual Environments. Digital Investigation, 29, 109-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diin.2019.03.010
Decrypting and inspecting encrypted malicious communications may assist crime detection and prevention. Access to client or server memory enables the discovery of artefacts re...
A Forensic Audit of the Tor Browser Bundle
Journal Article
Muir, M., Leimich, P., & Buchanan, W. J. (2019)
A Forensic Audit of the Tor Browser Bundle. Digital Investigation, 29, 118-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diin.2019.03.009
The increasing use of encrypted data within file storage and in network communications leaves investigators with many challenges. One of the most challenging is the Tor protoc...
IoT Forensics: Amazon Echo as a Use Case
Journal Article
Li, S., Li, S., Choo, K. R., Sun, Q., Buchanan, W. J., & Cao, J. (2019)
IoT Forensics: Amazon Echo as a Use Case. IEEE Internet of Things, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2019.2906946
Internet of Things (IoT) are increasingly common in our society, and can be found in civilian settings as well as sensitive applications such as battlefields and national secu...