Thesis Prizes

2011: Practical Implementation of Grouping Proof for RFID by Antony Bills, supervised by Konstantinos Markantonakis.

2010: Efficiency of Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Knowledge Identification Protocols on Smart Cards by Andreas Grünert, supervised by Keith Mayes.

  2009: Investigating the Use of Static Analysis Techniques to Detect Obfuscation in Web-Based Content Attacks by Tony Broad, supervised by John Austen.  

2008: Securing Mobile Voice End to End: Design Challenges in Developing Commercially Acceptable Solutions by John Wigley, supervised by Kenny Paterson. 

2007: The Impact of Virtualisation Upon Forensics Procedures by Matthew Hanrahan, supervised by John Austen.

2006: An Investigation into the Information Security Threats faced by a Small Network by David Thomas Hawks, supervised by Geraint Price. 

2005: (Artificially) Immune Based (Hybrid) Intrusion and Detection and Prevention Systems by Georgiadis Filippos, supervised by Geraint Price.

2004: An Open Framework for Simplifying the Use and Development of Source Code Analysis Tools by Nessim Kisserli, supervised by Jason Crampton.

• A novel card-present payment scheme using NFC Technology by Albert Attard
• A pragmatic policy-driven XSS protection framework by Joseph Bugeja
• A study on how a cloud service provider can offer adequate security to its customers by Robert Farrugia
• Malware Armoring: the case against incident related binary analysis by Steve Hendrikse
• Security in the cloud: The threat of coexist with an unknown tenant on a public environment by Jacobo Ros
• Can PCI DSS compliance be achieved in a cloud environment? by Patrick Durkin

• Hypervisor security: new techniques for securing virtual machines by Fotios Tsifoundtidis
• Compromising emanations: Tactics for electronic surveillance detection by Paul Frankland
• Quantum cryptography tutorial: is quantum key distribution realistic? by Sheila Cobourne
• Patient confidentiality policy for UK electronic health records by Stephen Elgar
• Ministry of Defence security: IT information assurance in the MOD by Paul Shanes

• Quantum Key Distribution – Protocols and Applications by Sheila Cobourne.
• Developments in confidentiality and consent functions to support wider sharing of electronic health records in the UK by Stephen Elgar (via the distance learning mode of study).
• Side Channels, Compromising Emanations and Surveillance: Current and future technologies by Richard Frankland.
• Accreditation: An end-to-end approach to managing information within the Ministry of Defence by Paul Shanes.
• Virtualization Security: Virtual Machine Monitoring and Introspection by Fotis Tsifountidis.

• Performance Analysis of Authentication Protocols in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET) by Abdul Kalam Kunnel Aboobaker
• The Domain Name System (DNS): Security challenges and improvements by Richard John Matthew Agar
• Securing the Sage Notebook by Yoav Aner
• Security Awareness for Children by Clara Brady
• Leveraging The Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Countering Organised Crime by Anna Cevidalli
• Business to Business Data Sharing using Trusted Computing by Stephen S. Khan
• Improving Residual Risk Management through the Use of Security Metrics by Jonathan Pagett
• Attestation in Trusted Computing: Challenges and Potential Solutions by Andrew Lee-Thorp

• Interdomain Routing Security (BGP4) by Rostom Zouaghi
• Maximising the Effectiveness of Information Security Awareness by Geordie Stewart
• Information Security Awareness: An Innovation Approach by Carlos Orozco Corona
• Fuzzing for Software Vulnerability Discovery by Toby Clarke
• Applying Misuse Case to Improve the Security of Information Systems by John Ruck
• Buffer Overflows in Microsoft Windows Environment by Parvez Anwar
• Management of Risks Associated with De-Parameterisation by Kwok Keeng Lee
• Digital Rights Management: Towards a Balance between Copyright Rights and Fair Use Exceptions by Christian Bonnici
• Extending Secure Execution Environments Beyond the TPM by Talha Tariq

• Intrusion Detection and Prevention: Immunologically Inspired Approaches by Devid Pipa
• Metamorphic Virus: Analysis and Detection by Evgenios Konstantinou
• Copy Protection of Computer Games by Richard Hyams
• Forensics of BitTorrent by Jamie Acorn
• Securing Financially Sensitive Environments with OpenBSD by Nicholas Humphrey
• Cheating and Virtual Crime in Massively Multiplayer Online Games by Rahul Joshi
• Review and Analysis of Current and Future European e-ID Schemes by Siddhartha Arora
• Information Security Training & Awareness by Monique Hogervorst
• Computer Security: A Machine Learning Approach by Sandeep Sabnani
• Proposed Model for Outsourcing PKI by Christoper McLaughlin
• Network Covert Channels: Review of Current State and Analysis of Viability of the use of X509 Certificates for Covert Communications by Carlos Scott
• Detecting Pandemic and Epidemic Incidents through Network Telescopes: Security Analysis by Fotis Gagadis
• Tigger Team -- A Novel Methodology to Manage Business Risk by Ian McKinnon