EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security

Year 2 Student - 2023 Cohort - Cohort 5

My background is in Computer Science (MEng), which I studied at the University of Bristol. My research interests lie in studying decision making and looking at the human element of cyber security. My focus is on understanding why people make certain decisions related to privacy and security both from a defender's perspective trying to prevent cyber attacks and from a criminal's perspective trying to execute them. I care about my online privacy and limiting the information that can be found on me. Personal security is also important to me and therefore I practice multiple martial arts for self defense purposes.

 Supervisors: Dr Matthew Edwards

Digital Investigations: Strategies to Disrupt Cyber Crime as a Service

My research concentrates around Cyber Crime as a Service, specifically the strategies and techniques that law enforcement uses to bring down CaaS and the strategies and techniques criminals use to protect their operations. By examining different criminal service providers and law enforcement takedowns of these providers, a catalogue of different high level strategies and specific techniques can be formulated, and a comprehensive mapping of the CaaS ecosystem can be created. Outputs of this research include a paper on this mapping and the catalogue, a systematic literature review paper, and potential collaboration with law enforcement.

• BSides security conference https://www.bsidesbristol.org.uk/

• Academic: Dr. Matthew Edwards
• Industrial: Dr. Eric Van de Sandt of the National High Tech Crime Unit of the Dutch National Police