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Resilient Information Systems Security

Erisa Karafili

A Formal Approach to Analyzing Cyber-Forensics Evidence

Erisa Karafili–News, Publications–

Erisa Karafili’s paper “A Formal Approach to Analyzing Cyber-Forensics Evidence” was accepted at the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2018. This work is part of the AF-Cyber Project, and was a joint collaboration with King’s College London and the University of Verona. Title: A Formal Approach to Analyzing Cyber-Forensics Evidence Authors: Erisa Karafili, Matteo Cristani, Luca Viganò Abstract: The frequency and harmfulness of cyber-attacks are increasing every day, and with them also the amount of data that the cyber-forensics analysts need to collect and analyze. In this paper, we propose a formal analysis process that allows an […]

AF-Cyber: Logic-based Attribution and Forensics in Cyber Security

Erisa Karafili–Current Projects–

Connected devices will continue to grow in volume and variety. The increase of connectivity brings a drastic impact on the increase of cyber attacks. Protecting measurements are not enough, while finding who did the attack is a crucial for preventing the escalation of cyber attacks. The impact of forensics in cyber security is becoming essential for the reduction and mitigation of attacks. Forensics and attribution forensics come along with their own challenges, like the difficulties on collecting suitable evidence, and the vastness of anti-forensics tools used by the attackers to cover their traces. The main goal of AF-Cyber is to […]

AF-Cyber: Logic-based Attribution and Forensics in Cyber Security

Erisa Karafili–News–

Dr Karafili is officially a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Computing, Imperial College. She will work on the project “AF-Cyber: Logic-based Attribution and Forensics in Cyber Security“.  The project was granted by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 746667.   AF-Cyber: Logic-based Attribution and Forensics in Cyber Security The main goal of AF-Cyber is to investigate and analyse the problem of attributing cyber attacks. We plan to construct a logic-based framework for performing attribution of cyber attacks, based on cyber forensics evidence, social science approaches and an intelligent […]

Improving Data Sharing in Data Rich Environments

Erisa Karafili–News, Publications–

The paper “Improving Data Sharing in Data Rich Environments” was accepted at the IEEE Big Data International Workshop on Policy-based Autonomic Data Governance (PADG), part of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data 2017), December 11-14, 2017, Boston, MA, USA. This work was done in collaboration with our partners (BAE Systems, IBM UK and IBM US) from the DAIS International Technology Alliance (ITA). The paper can be found here. Authors: Erisa Karafili, Emil C. Lupu, Alan Cullen, Bill Williams, Saritha Arunkumar, Seraphin Calo Abstract: The increasing use of big data comes along with the problem of ensuring correct […]

Argumentation-based Security for Social Good

Erisa Karafili–News, Presentations, Publications–

The paper “Argumentation-based Security for Social Good” presented at the AAAI Spring Symposia 2017 is now available at the AAAI Technical Report. Title: Argumentation-Based Security for Social Good Authors: Erisa Karafili, Antonis C. Kakas, Nikolaos I. Spanoudakis, Emil C. Lupu Abstract: The increase of connectivity and the impact it has in ever day life is raising new and existing security problems that are becoming important for social good. We introduce two particular problems: cyber attack attribution and regulatory data sharing. For both problems, decisions about which rules to apply, should be taken under incomplete and context dependent information. The solution […]

An argumentation reasoning approach for data processing

Erisa Karafili–News, Publications–

The paper “An argumentation reasoning approach for data processing” is now published in the Elsevier Journal Computers in Industry. Title: An argumentation reasoning approach for data processing Authors: Erisa Karafili, Konstantina Spanaki, Emil C. Lupu Abstract: Data-intensive environments enable us to capture information and knowledge about the physical surroundings, to optimise our resources, enjoy personalised services and gain unprecedented insights into our lives. However, to obtain these endeavours extracted from the data, this data should be generated, collected and the insight should be exploited. Following an argumentation reasoning approach for data processing and building on the theoretical background of data […]

Enabling Data Sharing in Contextual Environments: Policy Representation and Analysis

Erisa Karafili–News, Publications–

The paper “Enabling Data Sharing in Contextual Environments: Policy Representation and Analysis” was accepted at SACMAT 2017. ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 2017) Authors: Erisa Karafili and Emil Lupu Abstract: Internet of Things environments enable us to capture more and more data about the physical environment we live in and about ourselves. The data enable us to optimise resources, personalise services and offer unprecedented insights into our lives. However, to achieve these insights data need to be shared (and sometimes sold) between organisations imposing rights and obligations upon the sharing parties and in accordance with multiple […]