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
Events
If you wish to join for any of our upcoming talks, or if you would like to contribute towards a future talk, please do get in touch: Phil.Legg@uwe.ac.uk.
17th February 2021: Mark Moore, Cyber Resilience Centre (South West)
24th February 2021: Tom Williams, Avon and Somerset Police / Cyber Volunteers
3rd March 2021: Lewis West, Hamilton Barnes
10th March 2021: Elias Wylde, National Grid
17th March 2021: "10 lessons from cyberpsychology" Dr Linda Kaye, Edge Hill University
24th March 2021: Bruce Gregory, Hub8
14th April 2021: "Security Economics" Dr Yulia Cherdantseva, Cardiff University
21st April 2021: "E-Discovery, Careers, Opportunities, Puppies" Christina Mather, NUIX and Ruth Roberts, CMS
28th April 2021: Justin Hart, Ribbon Communications
5th May 2021: Alan Mills, VQ Communications
UWEcyber Digital Forensics Seminar Series 2020
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
UWEcyber Seminar Series 2020
4th March 2020, 12:00: AmioSec
19th February 2020: Lighthouse Forensics
5th February 2020: EY
29th January 2020: ImmersiveLabs
UWEcyber Seminar Series 2019
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, Dr Panagiotis Andriotis
9th October 2019: Research in UWEcyber, Dr Phil Legg
2nd October 2019: UWE Cyber Security Society
Videos
Photos
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