Research line Security & privacy

The CS department of the Open University is active in research on various topics related to security and privacy. Below is a list of the researchers active in these fields, a link to their homepage (when available) and, for each, a list of the topics of his/her expertise.

Harald Vranken

• virtual security labs
• (usable) security of on-line banking
• botnet detection with deep-learning networks
• governance of botnet detection
• energy analysis of blockchain consensus algorithms
• resilience of distributed networks
• security of communication protocols for IoT
• IoT in smart cities

Hugo Jonker

• browser and phone fingerprinting
• security protocol analysis
• fraud detection
• web vulnerability scanning
• privacy and verifiability of electronic voting and auctions
• web-privacy
• smartphone-related privacy
• context-driven privacy and security
• privacy-by-default and enforced privacy

Mina Alishahi

• privacy in distributed learning
• machine learning for attack detection
• cryptography
• privacy-preserving data analysis
• security & privacy in IoT and Smart Cities

Fabian van den Broek

• Mobile communication security
• privacy-preserving authorisation with IRMA

Arjan Kok

• Security
• Computer graphics
• Visualization
• Virtual reality

Clara Maathuis

• Detecting disinformation campaigns on social media

Stefano Schivo

• (cyber-)security
• security in IoT
• attack trees
• safety-security interplay

Ashish Sai

• distributed systems security analysis
• privacy and security analysis of mobile applications
• energy analysis of blockchain consensus algorithms
• static source code analysis
• architecture recovery