Big Data in Cyber Security

If there is one domain increasingly can be seen as a Big Data consumer, it is Cybersecurity. Increasingly with security analytics we must…

Big Data in Cyber Security

If there is one domain that can be seen as a leading Big Data consumer, it is Cybersecurity. Increasingly with security analytics we must analyse data from many sources in real-time and over historical traces. A large company may thus have terabytes of logs generated each day, and these must be analysed for a needle in a haystack.

To showcase the importance of the area, we have had the 5th International Big Data in Cyber Security conference over the last two days [here]. If you want to watch Day 1, the presentations they are here:

Day 1: main. Includes Professor Sokratis Katsikas, Professor Steve Furnell, Kate Forbes, Richard Meeus, Ivan Salter, Harry McLaren, Peter Ferry, and Professor Nick Antonopoulos.
Day 1: academic. Includes Dr Miltiadis Kandias, Deepayan Bhowmik, Alexis Mylonas, and Ariel Ruiz-Garcia.

and:

Day 2: main. Includes Federico Charosky, David Stubley, Adrian Smales and Cary Hendricks.
Day 2: academic. Includes Laura Irvine, Tim Musson, Peter Cruickshank and Keith McDevitt.
Day 2: final. Includes Prof Konstantinos Markantonakis, Adam Hall, Will Abramson and Susan Brown.

Here a few pictures from the event:

And — as you may know — much of our work in cryptography can be traced back to initial work done by our Polish PhD graduate- Zbigniew (Zibi) Kwecka. Overall Poland has contributed some of the most amazing cipher crackers and cryptographers — and who saved many lives - and I was proud to be awarded an Honorary Professorship from our Polish friends from Spoleczna Akademia Nauk:

I am international to the core and to have the opportunity to works with peers across Europe is one of the great privileges of being an academic. We live on a small planet and we should be building bridges for our next generation and not building walls.

Over the next few months, I also aim to interview some of the great people who have contributed so much to the world of cyber security:

and:

So, come and be part of The Cyber Academy:

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