About
UWEcyber is a collective of academics at the University of the West of England (Bristol, UK) with a passion for cyber security. UWEcyber are active in teaching, research, outreach, and external industry engagement. We collaborate and share with the community, and we strive to improve cyber security for our region and beyond. We are recognised by the National Cyber Security Centre as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE).
BSc Cyber Security and Digital Forensics
BSc Cyber Security Technical Professional
Integrated Degree Apprenticeship in partnership with Gloucestershire College
UnlockCyber
Opening Futures in Cyber Security
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Our UWEcyber seminar series will resume in January 2021, in line with the new academic year for the MSc Cyber Security programme.
17th December 2020, 16:00: FTK or Blacklight or Linux Forensics.
10th December 2020, 16:00: EnCase
3rd December 2020, 16:00: Mobile Device Forensics
26 November 2020, 16:00: Magnet Axiom CTF
19 November 2020, 16:00: Cellebrite CTF
4th March 2020, 12:00: AmioSec
19th February 2020: Lighthouse Forensics
5th February 2020: EY
29th January 2020: ImmersiveLabs
4th December 2019: Context IS
27th November 2019: Nationwide
20th November 2019: ACM CCS Conference Review (Gwyn Wilkison and Andrew McCarthy)
13th November 2019: Securitay Conference Preview (Ian Johnson)
23th October 2019: Android Permissions, To Allow or Deny (Panagiotis Andriotis)
9th October 2019: Research in UWEcyber (Phil Legg)
2nd October 2019: UWE Cyber Security Society
People
Rakib Abdur - Senior Lecturer in Mobile Security
Interests: Formal verification
Abdullahi Arabo - Senior Lecturer in Forensic Computer Networks and Mobile Technology
Interests: Software defined networking
Tim Brailsford - Head of Department, Computer Science and Creative Technologies
Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Hypertext, Hypermedia
Elaine Brown - Outreach Coordinator and UnlockCyber Lead
Interests: Schools Outreach and Industrial Engagement
Djamel Djenouri - Associate Professor in Computer Science
Interests: IoT (Internet of Things), Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing, Smart City and Environments
Essam Ghadafi - Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Interests: Cryptography
Lindsey Gillies - Associate Head of Department, Computer Science and Creative Technologies
Interests: Digital Forensics
Ian Johnson - AHoD Information Sciences / Co-Director of UWEcyber ACE-CSE / Cyber Security Consultant
Interests: Host and network security, programming, embedded C
Phil Legg -
Associate Professor in Cyber Security / Co-Director of UWEcyber ACE-CSE / MSc Cyber Security Programme Leader
Interests: Machine learning, visualisation, insider threat detection, cyber situational awareness, adversarial learning, human-machine teaming, cyber risk
Hanene Rahmouni - Senior Lecturer in Information Systems
Interests: Security management
Jonathon Stadon - Lecturer in Computing
Interests: Industrial Control Systems, SCADA.
Jonathan White - Lecturer in Cyber Security
Interests: Detection of threats to IoT devices in a home network environment using machine learning, and also ransomware detection.
Kun Wei - Lecturer in Computer Science
Interests: Parallel Computing
Rong Yang - BSc Computing Programme Leader
Interests: Cryptography