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Recent News
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Mobile Phone Forensics
The Information Security Group (ISG) at Royal Holloway, University of London, is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral research fellow for the EU Horizon2020-funded EXFILES project. The successful candidates will join the Smart Card and IoT Security Centre (SCC), of the ISG, supporting the SCC research activities related to mobile...Keynote Talk
Professor Konstantinos Markantonakis delivered an invited keynote talk on the “Big Data in Cyber Security 2019” event organized by Napier University. More information about the event and the program can be found here.World Economic Forum
The Smart Card and IoT Security Centre (SCC) team is actively engaged in a joint project with the World Economic Forum (WEF). The SCC team was approached for their expert advice in order to collaborate on the development of an open government procurement system: “Smart Contract-based Digital Procurement System...
PhD Graduation
In 2018, we celebrated the successful completion of four PhD students, supervised by Prof Konstantinos Markantonakis and the Smart Card and IoT Security Centre (SCC). They are: Dr Carlton Shepherd, “Techniques for Establishing Trust in Modern Constrained Sensing Platforms with Trusted Execution Environments” Dr Iakovos Gurulian, “On Enhancing the...Patent and commercialization
Prof Konstantinos Markantonakis, Dr Raja Naeem Akram and Mr James Tapsell, worked successfully into the creation of a patent as a “Technique to record an event and its impact on the data during the lifetime of a data – specific to individual entities represented in the data.” The implementation...
CyberASAP
Professor Konstantinos Markantonakis, Dr Raja Akram and Dr Jorge Blasco Alis from ISG, are leading three projects having secured awards under the Innovate UK Cyber security academic start-up accelerate programme (CyberASAP). This programme provides funding to increase the amount of academic research being commercialised by UK universities through a...Research Projects
DICE (Data Improved Customer Experience): (Sept 2016-Sept 2019)
DICE (Data Improved Customer Experience) is a 36-month collaborative project funded by EPSRC started on September 1st 2016. The project is aiming to develop the technology foundation for providing a personalised customer (railway travellers) experience while preserving their privacy requirements. The project partners are University of Surrey, Royal Holloway (University of London), University of Loughborough and University of Southampton.
SHAWN: (Jan 2014-Jun 2016)
SHAWN (Secure High-Availability Avionics Wireless Networks) is developing the technology required for a robust, secure and high-bandwidth wireless communication system for intra-aircraft avionics digital data networks.
UK Cards Association: (Dec 2012-Dec 2016)
The goal of this project is to examine card based technologies and taking into account recent developments in mobile payments and block chain technologies enhance the overall payment security and user experience.
Transport for London:
The goal of the project is to review the security of smart ticketing in public transport. It also reviews the use of mobile phones for ticketing, in terms of their security and performance.
Visa International: (Sept 2015-Sept 2016)
The goal of this project is to examine the current status of card based financial transactions and provide potential enhancements to the core payment infrastructures.