NEW DATE: SPRITE+ Expert Fellows meeting (11/12 April 2022)

Rising Star - Amel Attatfa

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Develop digital economy research communities with NetworkPlus

Research Assistant/Associate position available to investigate consent in autonomous systems

3 x Cyberpsychology PhD positions within the School of Psychology, Cardiff University

CFP: "Security for XR and XR for Security" workshop at SOUPS 2021

CFP: 1st International Workshop on Consent Management in Online Services, Networks and Things

CFP: Workshop on Reviewable and Auditable Pervasive Systems (WRAPS)

CFP: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)

IMPACT is back for 2021 – an invitation

Re: CONFIGURE - Feminist Action Research in Cybersecurity

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Cyber Security & Privacy Seminar Series

CFP: Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2021)

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Apply for funding to build digital economy and manufacturing research communities. These must address one of the EPSRC digital economy theme priority areas. Total fund: £16,250,000.

Closing date: 29 July 2021 16:00 UK time.

The position is funded by UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub Pump Priming Programme, and will be based at the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow.

You will contribute to a project titled 'Consent Verification in Autonomous Systems', working with Dr Inah Omoronyia (SPRITE+ Member) and Professor Alice Miller.

Closing Date: 17 Jun 2021, 23:45.

All positions are fully funded (EPSRC – Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Hubs) to start Oct 2021. The successful candidates would join ACE-CSR as well as the IROHMS Research Centre and Human Factors Excellence Research Group (HuFEx).

Positions available:

> Cyber Security Analytics: Human Vulnerability to Cyber Attack Attempts When Using Autonomous Vehicles

> Cyber Security Analytics: Anthropomorphic vs. Technomorphic Interfaces: Their Role in the Attribution of Blame and the Engendering of Trust after Cyber Attacks

> Autonomous shared transport: The role of social context in user perceptions of security and trust using immersive dynamic simulations

Our SPRITE+ Member Mohamed Khamis is organising this workshop.

This workshop will bring together experts from the fields of usable security, augmented/virtual reality, and human-computer interaction as well as people interested in these topics to discuss current challenges and derive promising research directions that can inform and augment security and privacy research.

Deadline: 27 May 2021.

Our SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Vitor Jesus is organising this CONSENT 2021 workshop.

The workshop invites technical, tecno-legal or socio-technical papers, work-in-progress reports, industry insights and multi-disciplinary perspectives describing advances in all areas related to Consent.

Submission: 31 May 2021.

Our SPRITE+ Member Iman Naja is organising this workshop.

This workshop will bring together a range of perspectives into how we can better audit and understand the complex, sociotechnical systems that increasingly pervade our world.

Paper submission: 15 Jun 2021.

ACSAC brings together cutting-edge researchers, with a broad cross-section of security professionals drawn from academia, industry, and government, gathered to present and discuss the latest security results and topics.

Deadline: 23 Jun 2021 for most submission types.

Our SPRITE+ Project Partner CybSafe is organising this conference.

IMPACT connects cyber security researchers with industry insiders to skyrocket human cyber risk management.

Date and time: 23 Jul 2021, 10:00-17:00 BST.

This report presents a 10-month pilot study applying “action research” methods to cybersecurity.

The Reconfigure Network ran a series of community workshops in which they invited participants to define their own cybersecurity threats, implement changes to protect themselves, and reflect on the role cybersecurity plays in their lives.

> IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Issue 8, Aug 2021.

> ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks Volume 17, Issue 2, May 2021.

> ACM Transactions on the Web Volume 15 Issue 2, May 2021.

> Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques. Volume 17, Issue 2.

> IEEE Security & Privacy Vol. 19, Issue 3, May-June 2021.

> ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS) Volume 24, Issue 3, April 2021.

> Journal of Information Security and Applications Volume 60.

> Cyberpsychology Vol 15, No 2 (2021).

> Network Security Volume 2021, Issue 5.

> Journal of Information Security and Applications Volume 59, June 2021.

The UK-SPS is a newly formed collaboration between 19 UK Universities to offer a UK-wide programme of world leading seminars, showcasing speakers from our home institutions and across the globe with the aim of sharing world leading research and expert insights into the current Cyber Security and Privacy landscape.

eCrime 2021 will look at the operational challenges and development of common resources and best practices for first responders and forensic professionals.

In addition, the conference will dive into current research projects and future areas of interest for cybercrime investigations, forensic techniques and infrastructure defense. including our peer-reviewed cybercrime published paper program with the IEEE-SA.

Full Papers registration and submission due: 10 Sep 2021.

We had originally booked our Expert Fellows meeting for 30 June/01 July this year. Unfortunately, due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions and difficulties faced by the venue, we have had to postpone this meeting to 11/12 April 2022 at the Titanic Centre in Belfast – please save the date!

We hope you will join us for interactive discussion and networking as well as an opportunity to develop relationships with new collaborators within and beyond the academic sector. Further information will be made available in due course.

We understand that April is quite some time away, so we will be hosting informal regional meet-ups for Members and Expert Fellows in the interim, from September. These gatherings will include opportunities for short talks on hot topics in digital TIPS and a chance for informal discussion and networking. A full list of dates/locations and sign-up details will be made available soon.

If you’d like to host a meet-up in your area, please let us know by email at admin@spritehub.org.

Rising Stars is a blog series featuring SPRITE+ early Career Researchers (ECRs).

Our Rising Star this month is Amel Attatfa from Abertay! Learn about Amel's work on cyber diplomacy and its influence on international cyber space!

We continue to publish Career Journey interviews with SPRITE+ Project Partners, Experts, and Members.

The spotlight today is on Tim Ferris – Senior Lecturer in Systems Engineering for Defence Capability at Cranfield University, Deputy Head of Centre for Systems and Technology Management, and a SPRITE+ member.

We are seeking new Fellows to join a diverse group of experts, each bringing deep expertise and creative thinking to SPRITE+ activities, and together providing a broad, challenging and informed range of viewpoints on TIPS in digital contexts.

We are offering logistical support to help organise the activity and will make available up to £5,000 of funding per activity to cover associated costs (e.g., travel, materials, professional facilitation/online production costs, data access).

We regularly collate PhD studentships, academic positions, and other opportunities related to digital TIPS.

This month's round up includes lectureships and head of subject positions in cybersecurity, postdoc in Distributed AI Systems, research fellow opportunities in financial crime and security, PhD studentships in AI-enabled wargaming and more!

You can now view more of SPRITEHub without the need to log in, e.g., Jobs and Opportunities and External Events.

You can still use your profile to make connections with other Members, Expert Fellows and Project Partners, as well as discuss any pertinent issues on SPRITEHub Discussion Groups.

Every month we ask SPRITE+ members to share their news with the community. All previous publications from members are available on SPRITEHub.

Congratulations to Nadine Michaelides who has recently published 'CISO Stories: Part Two' in the Infosecurity Magazine.

Congratulations to Tania Wallis who has recently publsihed 'Interorganizational Cooperation in Supply Chain Cybersecurity: A Cross-Industry Study of the Effectiveness of the UK Implementation of the NIS Directive'. Thank you to Mohamed Khamis for sharing the news.

Congratulations to Florian Mathis who has recently published 'RepliCueAuth: Validating the Use of a Lab-Based Virtual Reality Setup for Evaluating Authentication Systems' together with Mohamed Khamis and others. A video presentation is also available.

Congratulations to Jason Nurse who has recently published 'Consumer Attitudes Towards IoT Security' report. The government press release on the matter is also available. Jason has also co-authored 'Cyber Security Incentives and the Role of Cyber Insurance'.

Congratulations to Jonathan Foster who has recently published 'Understanding the Interplay Between Boundary Resources and Governance Practices in Influencing Ecosystem Value Co-Creation for Digital Platforms in the Global South' to appear in the proceedings of IFIP 9.4 13th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, Oslo, 26-28 May, 2021.

Congratulations to Martin Gallager and Chris Foster who have recently published 'Shining a light on 'shadow Infrastructure' and organised crime'.

Congratulations to Geoffrey Goodell who has recently published 'A Digital Currency Architecture for Privacy and Owner-Custodianship'.

Congratulations to James Nicholson who has recently published 'From Personal Data to Digital Legacy: Exploring Conflicts in the Sharing, Security and Privacy of Post-mortem Data' and 'Training and Embedding Cybersecurity Guardians in Older Communities'.

Congratulations to Mohammad Shojafar who has recently publidhed 'LEVER: Secure Deduplicated Cloud Storage With Encrypted Two-Party Interactions in Cyber--Physical Systems', 'Closed-loop and open-loop authentication protocols for blockchain-based IoT systems', and 'FED-IIoT: A Robust Federated Malware Detection Architecture in Industrial IoT'.

Congratulations to Iman Naja who has recently published 'A Semantic Framework to Support AI System Accountability and Audit'.

Congratulations to Marie Oldfield who has recently published 'Why interdisciplinary research in AI is so important, according to Jurassic Park'. Marie has also participated in the government survey the results of which have been published: 'COVID-19 outbreak: What are experts concerned about?'.

Congratulations to Dirk van der Linden who has recently published 'Interspecies information systems'.

Congratulations to Jiahong Chen who has recently published 'Regulating Online Behavioural Advertising Through Data Protection Law'.