Systems Research

SRG Seminar: Evaluation Techniques for Detection Model Performance in Anomaly Network Intrusion Detection System by Amjad Al Tobi

Everyday advancements in technology brings with it novel challenges and threats. Such advancement imposes greater risks than ever on systems and services, including individual privacy information. Relying on intrusion specialists to come up with new signatures to detect different types of new attacks, does not seem to scale with excessive traffic growth. Therefore, anomaly-based detection … SRG Seminar: Evaluation Techniques for Detection Model Performance in Anomaly Network Intrusion Detection System by Amjad Al Tobi

SRG Seminar: New Network Functionality using ILNPv6 and DNS by Khawar Shehzad

This research deals with the introduction of a new network functionality based on Identifier-Locator Network Protocol version 6 (ILNPv6), and Domain Name System (DNS). The chosen area of concern is security and specifically mitigation of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). The functionality proposed and tested deals with the issues of vulnerability testing, probing, and scanning which … SRG Seminar: New Network Functionality using ILNPv6 and DNS by Khawar Shehzad

Prizes for Haifa Al Nasseri

At the Cyber Academy’s International Conference on Big Data in Cyber Security on May 10 2017 at Edinburgh Napier’s Craiglockhart Campus, PhD student Haifa Al Nasseri won two 3rd prizes. One was for her research poster on Cloud Virtual Network Isolation Security and the other was for her team’s efforts in the Splunk Hackathon.

SRG Seminar: Investigation of Virtual Network Isolation Security in Cloud Computing Using Penetration Testing by Haifa Al Nasseri

Software Defined Networking (SDN) or Virtual Networks (VNs) are required for cloud tenants to leverage demands. However, multi-tenancy can be compromised without proper isolation. Much research has been conducted into VN Isolation; many researchers are not tackling security aspects or checking if their isolation evaluation is complete. Therefore, data leakage is a major security concern … SRG Seminar: Investigation of Virtual Network Isolation Security in Cloud Computing Using Penetration Testing by Haifa Al Nasseri

SRG at IEEE CCGrid 2017

Congratulations to Uchechukwu Awada, who presented “Improving resource efficiency of container-instance clusters on clouds” at the 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing.

SRG Seminar: “Evaluating Data Linkage: Creation and use of synthetic data for comprehensive linkage evaluation” by Tom Dalton and “Container orchestration” by Uchechukwu Awada

The abstract of Tom’s talk: “Data linkage approaches are often evaluated with small or few data sets. If a linkage approach is to be used widely, quantifying its performance with varying data sets would be beneficial. In addition, given a data set needs to be linked, the true links are by definition unknown. The success … SRG Seminar: “Evaluating Data Linkage: Creation and use of synthetic data for comprehensive linkage evaluation” by Tom Dalton and “Container orchestration” by Uchechukwu Awada

SRG Seminar: nMANET, the Name-based Data Network (NDN) for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) by Percy Perez Aruni

The aim of this talk is to introduce the nMANET, the Name-based Data Network (NDN) for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) approach. nMANET is an alternative perspective on utilising the characteristics of NDN to solve the limitations of MANETs, such as mobility and energy consumption. NDN, which is an instance of Information Centric Networking (ICN), provides an alternative … SRG Seminar: nMANET, the Name-based Data Network (NDN) for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) by Percy Perez Aruni

SRG Seminar: Managing Shared Mutable Data in a Distributed Environment (Simone Conte)

Title: Managing Shared Mutable Data in a Distributed Environment Abstract: Managing data is central to our digital lives. The average user owns multiple devices and uses a large variety of applications, services and tools. In an ideal world storage is infinite, data is easy to share and version, and available irrespective of where it is stored, and … SRG Seminar: Managing Shared Mutable Data in a Distributed Environment (Simone Conte)

Research on containers for HPC environments featured in CACM and HPC Wire

Rethinking High performance computing Platforms: Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations, co-authored by Adam Barker and a team (Ole Weidner, Malcolm Atkinson, Rosa Filgueira Vicente) in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh was recently featured in the Communications of the ACM and HPC Wire. The paper focuses on container technology and argues that a number of … Research on containers for HPC environments featured in CACM and HPC Wire