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Systems Security

Within the software and systems security theme, academics and researchers from the group are investigating various aspects of security pertaining to industrial systems. The research efforts of the group have three main drivers: the practical application of new security technologies (such as Trusted Computing); exploring and addressing the security needs of emerging computing environments (with distributed healthcare research and delivery being a primary interest); and the investigation of new methods and tools for improving the design process of security and the usability of secure systems. As a result of the group's activities in this area, very strong links with major industrial partners (such as IBM, Hewlett Packard and QinetiQ) have been established; there is also strong interest in the commercial application of some of the group's outputs. Furthermore, the group has raised over £2M (in terms of project and studentship funding) over the past three years for work in this area. The group's strengths in the area of security has led the Software Engineering Programme to establish a part-time MSc in Software and Systems Security to supplement its offerings in the areas of Software Engineering and Object Technology.

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Personal photo - Ronald Kainda
Ronald Kainda
Personal photo - Joe Loughry
Joe Loughry
Douglas Russell
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Clint Sieunarine

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Trustworthy Remote Entities in the Smart Grid

Andrew Paverd

In 28th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing − SAC2013. Coimbra‚ Portugal. 2013.

Student Research Competition Finalist

Guidelines for Integrating Personas into Software Engineering Tools

Shamal Faily and John Lyle

In Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems. 2013.

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Formal Evaluation of Persona Trustworthiness with EUSTACE (Extended Abstract)

Shamal Faily‚ David Power‚ Philip Armstrong and Ivan Flechais

In Trust and Trustworthy Computing‚ 6th International Conference‚ TRUST 2013. 2013.

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