Security, Privacy and Data Protection
Research and development in the following areas:
Security and privacy mechanisms – research, development and open-source implementation
- Privacy semantics, including automated GDPR compliance and data policy management
- Electronic identity systems
- Electronic payment systems
- Blockchain and cryptocurrency applications
- Alternatives to passwords (e.g. RFC7486) and new approaches to naming (e.g. RFC6920)
- Privacy-friendly features for phones
- Privacy-enhanced recommender systems and search, traffic analysis resistant VPNs and HTTPS
- PKI, Federated Access control
Measurement – measuring real security and privacy characteristics of deployed systems on the public internet
- Web-site "scoring"
- Localised Internet measurement
- Mobile handset monitoring
Standardisation – bridging the gap between research and standards
- Involvement and Leadership in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working groups, and LoRa Alliance security working group.
Faculty Members
| Staff Name Research Group & Centres | Research Interests | Publications |
|---|---|---|
| Conlan, Owen KDEG, ADAPT,DH |
Adaptive Systems; Personalised eLearning; Adaptive Hypermedia; Strategies for Adaptation; Visualisation |  |
| Farrell, Stephen DSG |
Delay tolerant networking; Security | |
| Leith, Douglas CONNECT |
Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Data Privacy, Machine Learning, Wireless networks, Edge Computing | |
| Lewis, Dave KDEG, ADAPT |
Network and Service Management; Policy Engineering; Autonomic Systems; Knowledge-driven system engineering | |
| O'Sullivan, Declan KDEG, ADAPT, DH |
Information Integration, Semantic Modelling; Semantic Interoperability, Data and Semantic Mapping | |
| Tewari, Hitesh DSG |
Network, Telecommunications Services, Security and Mobility | |
