Centre for Security, Communications and Network Research

CSCAN Research Staff Profile

Name: Dr Maria Papadaki MBCS GCIA MIEEE Position: Lecturer in Network Security Email: mpapadaki@cscan.org Qualifications: 2007-2008 Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LTHE), University of Plymouth, UK. 2006 GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), SANS Institute, USA. 2000-2004 PhD "Classifying and Responding to Network Intrusions", University of Plymouth, UK. 1999-2000 MSc "Integrated Networks and Intelligent Networks Engineering", University of Plymouth, UK. 1994-1997 BSc (equiv) "Informatics Engineering", Technical Educational Institute of Athens, Greece. Professional Memberships: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (MIEEE) Member of British computer Society (MBCS) Research Interests: Intrusion Prevention Intrusion Detection Automated Response Network Security Monitoring Social Engineering Security Usability Security Education Editorships / Refereeing for journals: Referee, Computers & Security, Elsevier Referee, Computer Communications, Elsevier Referee, Security and Communication Networks, John Wiley and Sons Other international conference activities: Reviewer, 23rd International Information Security conference (SEC 2008), September 8-10, 2008, Milan. Programme Committee Member, 5th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business (TrustBus ‘08), September 1-5, 2008, Turin, Italy Programme Committee Member, IADIS International Conference e-Commerce 2008, 25-27 July, 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands Programme Committee Member, 2nd International Symposium on Security and Multimodality in Pervasive Environments, July 21-25, 2008, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Technical Program Committee Member, International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia (TEMU 2008), July 16-18, 2008, Ierapetra, Crete, Greece Programme Committee Member, 2nd International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA 2008), July 8-10, 2008, Plymouth, UK Conference Executive, 7th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW 2008), 30 June – 1 July 2008, Plymouth, UK Programme Committee Member, 7th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW 2008), 30 June – 1 July 2008, Plymouth, UK COMTEC Programme Committee, EUROMEDIA 2008, April 9-11, 2008, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal International Programme Committee Member, 5th IASTED Asian Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (AsiaCSN 2008), April 2-4, 2008, Langkawi, Malaysia Programme Committee Member, 2007 International Workshop on Secure and Multimodal Pervasive Environments, September 17, 2007, Nice, France Programme Committee Member, 4th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business (TrustBus ‘07), September 3-7, 2007, Regensburg, Germany COMTEC Programme Committee, EUROMEDIA 2007, April 25-27, 2007, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands Programme Committee, International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance (HAISA 2007), Plymouth, UK, 10-12 July 2007. Programme Committee, 6th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security, Shrivenham, UK, 2-3 July 2007. Programme Committee, The Second International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS 2007), Vienna, Austria, 10-13 April 2007. Programme Committee, The Fourth IASTED Asian Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (AsiaCSN 2007), Phuket, Thailand, 2-4 April 2007. Programme Committee, First International Workshop on Information Security (IS'06), Montpellier, France, 29 October - 3 November 2006. Reviewer, 1st International Workshop on Security (IWSEC 2006), Kyoto, Japan, 23-24 October 2006. Reviewer, 1st International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS'06), Samos Island, Greece, 30 August – 2 September 2006. Reviewer, Sixth International Network Conference (INC 2006), Plymouth, UK, 11-14 July 2006. Reviewer, 9th Information Security Conference (ISC 2006), Samos, Greece, 30 August - 2 September 2006. Programme Committee, Third International Conference on Trust, Privacy, and Security of Digital Business (TrustBus’06), Krakov, Poland, 4-8 September 2006. Programme Committee, Fifth European Conference on Information Warfare and Security, Helsinki, Finland, 1-2 June 2006. Programme Committee, Euromedia 2006, Athens, Greece, April 2006. Programme Committee, IASTED International Conference on Networks and Communication Systems (NCS 2006), Chiang Mai, Thailand, 29-31 March 2006. Reviewer, Fourth IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet and Information Technology (CIIT 2005), Cambridge, USA, 31 October – 2 November 2005. Programme Committee, Fourth European Conference on Information Warfare and Security, Glamorgan, South Wales, 11-12 July 2005 Organising Committee, Fourth International Network Conference 2004 (INC 2004), Plymouth, UK, 6-9 July 2004. Organising Committee, Third International Network Conference 2002 (INC 2002), Plymouth, UK, 16-18 July 2002. Organising Committee, Art libraries: their role and peculiarity, Athens, Greece, 18-19 June 1998.     Invited Presentations, Lectures, etc.: “Social Engineering: How vulnerable are we?”, invited presentation at the Special Financial Investigation Service for Electronic Trade & Electronic Crime (YPEE), Ministry of Economy and Finance, Athens, Greece, 31 March 2008. “The Challenges of Intrusion Response”, invited lecture at University of Malaga, Spain, 28 October 2005. Examination of research degrees: 2008 Exploring Sociotechnical Systems Perspectives in Global Software Development, Master of Commerce, Deakin University, Australia 2007 Enhancing Application Repurposing Techniques using Graphical Information, MSc in Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Reading, UK 2007 Misuse Detection in IT and Information Systems, PhD Thesis, University of Plymouth, UK (internal examiner)   Other external appointments: 2004-2006 Security Analyst, Symantec Managed Security Services (MSS), UK. Current MPhil/PhD Supervisions: Mr Nawaf Alharbi, A model for evaluating e-government security Mr Hussain Alsaiari, Graphical One-Time-Password Authentication Mr Haseeb Chaudhary, TBC Miss Sevasti Karatzouni, Non-Intrusive Continuous User Authentication for Mobile Devices Mr Peter Korovessis, Establishment of information security awareness and culture Mr Christopher Kosmas, Secure tracking system for next generation CIT products Miss Karin Kronawitter, IT Outsourcing in Banking Industry Mr Benjamin G. Sanders, Risk Reduction Framework for Online Interactive Environments Completed MPhil/PhD Supervisions: Dr Tarik Ibrahim, Improving Intrusion Prevention, Detection and Response (2011) Dr Nor Badrul Anuar Jumaat, Incident Prioritisation for Intrusion Response Systems (2012) Dr Fudong Li, Behaviour Profiling for Mobile Devices (2012) Mr Joerg Preuss, Profiling methods for computer crime and abuse (2008) Dr Gina C Tjhai, Anomaly-Based Correlation of IDS Alarms (2011) Projects: Projects supervised by/involving Dr Maria Papadaki

Publications

Journal papers

Incident prioritisation using analytic hierarchy process (AHP): Risk Index Model (RIM) Anuar NB, Papadaki M, Furnell SM, Clarke NL Security and Communication Networks, , 2012 More details & download link (if available)...

Evaluation of anomaly-based IDS for mobile devices using machine learning classifiers Damopoulos D, Menesidou SA, Kambourakis G, Papadaki M, Clarke NL, Gritzalis S Security and Communication Networks, vol. 5, issue 1, 2012 More details & download link (if available)...

Misuse Detection for Mobile Devices Using Behaviour Profiling Li F, Clarke NL, Papadaki M, Dowland PS International Journal of Cyber Warfare & Terrorism, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp43-55, ISSN: 1947-3435, 2011 More details & download link (if available)...

Online Addiction: A Cultural Comparison of Privacy Risks in Online Gaming Environments Sanders B, Dowland PS, Atkinson S, Zahra D, Furnell SM, Papadaki M Journal of Multimedia Processing Technologies, vol. 1, no. 3, September, pp181-193, ISSN: 0976-4127, 2010 More details & download link (if available)...

A preliminary two-stage alarm correlation and filtering system using SOM neural network and K-means algorithm Tjhai GC, Furnell SM, Papadaki M, Clarke NL Computers & Security, Volume 29, Issue 6, pp712-723 , 2010 More details & download link (if available)...

Social engineering: assessing vulnerabilities in practice Bakhshi T, Papadaki M, Furnell SM Information Management and Computer Security, vol. 17, no. 1, pp53-63, 2009 More details & download link (if available)...

Scare tactics – A viable weapon in the security war? Furnell SM, Papadaki M, Thomson KL Computer Fraud & Security, Volume 2009, Issue 12, December, pp6-10, 2009 More details & download link (if available)...

Testing our defences or defending our tests: the obstacles to performing security assessment Furnell SM, Papadaki M Computer Fraud & Security, Volume 2008, Issue 5, May, pp8-12, 2008 More details & download link (if available)...

Considering the potential of criminal profiling to combat hacking Preuss J, Furnell SM, Papadaki M Journal in Computer Virology, vol. 3, no. 2 pp135-141, 2007 More details & download link (if available)...

Informing the decision process in an automated intrusion response system Papadaki M, Furnell SM Information Security Technical Report, vol. 10, no. 3, pp150-161, 2005 More details & download link (if available)...

IDS or IPS: what is best? Papadaki M, Furnell SM Network Security, July, pp15-19, 2004 More details & download link (if available)...

Enhancing Response in Intrusion Detection Systems Papadaki M, Furnell SM, Lee SJ, Lines BL, Reynolds PL Journal of Information Warfare, vol. 2, no. 1, pp90-102, 2002 More details & download link (if available)...

An experimental comparison of secret-based user authentication technologies Irakleous I, Furnell SM, Dowland PS, Papadaki M Information Management and Computer Security, vol. 10, no. 3, pp100-108, 2002 More details & download link (if available)...

13 Journal papers

Conference papers

A Response Strategy Model for Intrusion Response Systems Anuar NB, Papadaki M, Furnell SM, Clarke NL 27th IFIP International Information Security and Privacy Conference - SEC2012, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 4-6 June, pp573-578, 2012 More details & download link (if available)...

Education in the 'Virtual' Community: Can beating Malware Man teach users about Social Networking Security? Sercombe AA, Papadaki M Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA 2012), Crete, Greece, ISBN: 978-1-84102-317-5, pp33-39, 2012 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

A Risk Index Model for Security Incident Prioritisation Anuar NB, Furnell SM, Papadaki M, Clarke NL Proceedings of the 9th Australian Information Security Management Conference (ASIM 2011), Perth, Australia, 5-7 December, 2011 More details & download link (if available)...

Emerging risks in massively multiplayer online role playing games Sanders B, Atkinson S, Dowland PS, Furnell SM, Papadaki M EU Kids Online Conference, Friday 23 September, New Academic Building LSE, 2011 More details & download link (if available)...

Behaviour Profiling for Transparent Authentication for Mobile Devices Li F, Clarke NL, Papadaki M, Dowland PS Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW), Tallinn, Estonia 7-8 July, pp307-314, 2011 Awarded best PhD paper. More details & download link (if available)...

LUARM – An Audit Engine for Insider Misuse Detection Magklaras GB, Furnell SM, Papadaki M Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Digital Forensics & Incident Analysis (WDFIA 2011), London, UK, ISBN: 978-1-84102-285-7, pp133-148, 2011 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Online Addiction: Privacy Risks in Online Gaming Environments Sanders B, Chen V, Zahra D, Dowland PS, Atkinson S, Papadaki M, Furnell SM Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES), October 26-29, Bangkok, Thailand, 2010 More details & download link (if available)...

Behaviour Profiling on Mobile Devices Li F, Clarke NL, Papadaki M, Dowland PS International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies, 6-8 September, Canterbury, UK, pp77-82, 2010 More details & download link (if available)...

Assessing the Usability of End-User Security Software Ibrahim T, Furnell SM, Papadaki M, Clarke NL Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6264/2010, pp177-189, 2010 More details & download link (if available)...

An investigation and survey of response options for Intrusion Response Systems (IRSs) Anuar NB, Papadaki M, Furnell SM, Clarke NL Proceedings of the 9th Annual Information Security South Africa Conference, Sandton, South Africa, 2 - 4 August, pp1-8, ISBN: 978-1-4244-5493-8, 2010 More details & download link (if available)...

ITO Success Factor Model - First Steps Towards a Guide for IT Outsourcing (ITO) Success Kronawitter K, Wentzel C, Papadaki M Proceedings of the Eighth International Network Conference (INC 2010), Heidelberg, Germany, 8-10 July, ISBN: 978-1-84102-259-8, pp355-359, 2010 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Improving Awareness of Social Engineering Attacks Smith A, Papadaki M, Furnell SM Proceedings of the 9th IFIP World Congress on Computer Education (WCCE 2009), Bento Gonclaves, Brazil, 27-31 July, 2009 More details & download link (if available)...

Assessing the Usability of Personal Internet Security Tools Ibrahim T, Furnell SM, Papadaki M, Clarke NL 8th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW), Military Academy, Lisbon & the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, 6-7 July, 2009 More details & download link (if available)...

Intrusion Detection System for Mobile Devices: Investigation on Calling Activity Li F, Clarke NL, Papadaki M Proceedings of the 8th Security Conference, April, Las Vegas, USA, 2009 More details & download link (if available)...

Evaluating the usability impacts of security interface adjustments in Word Helala M, Furnell SM, Papadaki M Proceedings of 6th Australian Information Security Management Conference, Perth, Western Australia, 1-3 December, pp48-55, 2008 More details & download link (if available)...

The Problem of False Alarms: Evaluation with Snort and DARPA 1999 Dataset Tjhai GC, Papadaki M, Furnell SM, Clarke NL Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5185/2008, ISBN: 978-3-540-85734-1, pp139-150, 2008 More details & download link (if available)...

Investigating the problem of IDS false alarms: An experimental study using Snort Tjhai GC, Papadaki M, Furnell SM, Clarke NL Proceeding of the 23rd International Information Security Conference (SEC 2008), Milan, Italy, 8-10 September, pp253-267, 2008 More details & download link (if available)...

A Practical Assessment of Social Engineering Vulnerabilities Bakhshi T, Papadaki M, Furnell SM Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA 2008), Plymouth, UK, pp12-23, 2008 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Assessing the challenges of Intrusion Detection Systems Ibrahim T, Furnell SM, Papadaki M, Clarke NL Proceedings of the 7th Security Conference, Las Vegas, USA, 2nd-3rd June, 2008 More details & download link (if available)...

Investigating the Evasion Resilience of Network Intrusion Detection Systems Ytreberg JA, Papadaki M Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security, Shrivenham, UK, 2-3 July, pp327-334, 2007 More details & download link (if available)...

Attack Pattern Analysis: Trends in Malware Variant Development Papadaki M, Furnell SM, Clarke NL, Abu-Bakar UA, Pinkney G Proceedings of the 5th Security Conference, Las Vegas, April 19 -20, , 2006 More details & download link (if available)...

Automating the process of intrusion response Papadaki M, Furnell SM Proceedings of the 5th Australian Information Warfare Security Conference, Perth, Australia, 25-26 November, CDROM, pp32-41, 2004 More details & download link (if available)...

Operational Characteristics of an Automated Intrusion Response System Papadaki M, Furnell SM, Lines BL, Reynolds PL Communications and Multmedia Security: Advanced Techniques for Network and Data Protection, pp65-75, 2003 More details & download link (if available)...

Keystroke Analysis as a Method of Advanced User Authentication and Response Dowland PS, Furnell SM, Papadaki M Proceedings of IFIP/SEC 2002 - 17th International Conference on Information Security, Cairo, Egypt, 7-9 May, pp215-226, 2002 View presentation... More details & download link (if available)...

A Response-Oriented Taxonomy of IT System Intrusions Papadaki M, Furnell SM, Lines BL, Reynolds PL Proceedings of Euromedia 2002, Modena, Italy, 15-17 April, pp87-95, 2002 More details & download link (if available)...

Security Vulnerabilities and System Intrusions ? The need for Automatic Response Frameworks Papadaki M, Magklaras GB, Furnell SM, Alayed A Proceedings of the IFIP 8th Annual Working Conference on Information Security Management & Small Systems Security, Las Vegas, 27-28 September, 2001 More details & download link (if available)...

A Generic Taxonomy for Intrusion Specification and Response Furnell SM, Magklaras GB, Papadaki M, Dowland PS Proceedings of Euromedia 2001, Valencia, Spain, 18-20 April, 2001 More details & download link (if available)...

27 Conference papers

Posters

Enhancing Intrusion Response in Networked System Papadaki M, Furnell SM, Dowland PS, Lines BL, Reynolds PL Poster presentation at Britain's Younger Engineers in 2002, House of Commons, London, 9 December, 2002 More details & download link (if available)...

Advanced Authentication and Intrusion Detection Technologies Dowland PS, Furnell SM, Magklaras GB, Papadaki M, Reynolds PL, Rodwell PM, Singh H Poster presentation at Britain's Younger Engineers in 2000, House of Commons, London, 4 December, 2000 More details & download link (if available)...

2 Posters

Internal publications

Evading Intrusion Detection Systems AlRobria I, Papadaki M Advances in Communications, Computing, Networks and Security Volume 8, ISBN: 978-1-84102-293-2, pp61-67, 2011 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Comparing Anti-Spyware Products – A different approach Saqib M, Papadaki M Advances in Communications, Computing, Networks and Security 6, ISBN: 978-1-84102-258-1, pp294-301, 2009 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Response of Software Vendors to Vulnerabilities Erebor G, Papadaki M Advances in Communications, Computing, Networks and Security 6, ISBN: 978-1-84102-258-1, pp160-168, 2009 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Improving Awareness on Social Engineering Attacks Smith A, Papadaki M Advances in Communications, Computing, Networks and Security 6, ISBN: 978-1-84102-258-1, pp144-151, 2009 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Guidelines/Recommendations on Best Practices in Fine Tuning IDS Alarms Obi CA, Papadaki M Advances in Communications, Computing, Networks and Security 6, ISBN: 978-1-84102-258-1, pp107-114, 2009 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Home Users Vulnerabilities in Audio/Video Players Jain R, Papadaki M Advances in Communications, Computing, Networks and Security 6, ISBN: 978-1-84102-258-1, pp73-82, 2009 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Vulnerability Awareness Edu A, Papadaki M Advances in Communications, Computing, Networks and Security 6, ISBN: 978-1-84102-258-1, pp32-39, 2009 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Social Engineering Vulnerabilities Bakhshi T, Papadaki M Advances in Communications, Computing, Networks and Security 6, ISBN: 978-1-84102-258-1, pp23-31, 2009 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Critical Success Factors in IT-Outsourcing: a Literature Analysis Kronawitter K, Wentzel C, Turetschek G, Papadaki M Proceedings of the Fifth Collaborative Research Symposium on Security, E-learning, Internet and Networking (SEIN 2009), Darmstadt, Germany, ISBN: 978-1-84102-236-9, pp110-122, 2009 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Response Mechanisms for Intrusion Response Systems (IRSs) Anuar NB, Furnell SM, Papadaki M, Clarke NL Proceedings of the Fifth Collaborative Research Symposium on Security, E-learning, Internet and Networking (SEIN 2009), Darmstadt, Germany, ISBN: 978-1-84102-236-9, pp3-14, 2009 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

The Dark Side of Google Ly T, Papadaki M Advances in Communications, Computing, Networks and Security 5, ISBN: 978-1-84102-257-4, pp135-142, 2008 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Tracking Botnets Freydefont M, Papadaki M Advances in Communications, Computing, Networks and Security 5, ISBN: 978-1-84102-257-4, pp116-125, 2008 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Security Risks Associated With the Use of Web Browsing, Instant Messaging and File Sharing software Bitsanis D, Papadaki M Advances in Communications, Computing, Networks and Security 5, ISBN: 978-1-84102-257-4, pp99-107, 2008 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Network Intrusion Detection Systems Evasion Techniques – an Investigation Using Snort Ytreberg JA, Papadaki M Advances in Communications, Computing, Networks and Security 5, ISBN: 978-1-84102-257-4, pp49-58, 2008 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Intrusion Detection System for Mobile Devices: Preliminary Investigation Li F, Clarke NL, Papadaki M Proceedings of the Fourth Collaborative Research Symposium on Security, E-learning, Internet and Networking (SEIN 2008), Wrexham, UK, ISBN: 978-1-84102-196-6, pp21-31, 2008 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

User security awareness of social engineering and phishing Karakasiliotis A, Furnell SM, Papadaki M Advances in Network & Communication Engineering 4, ISBN: 978-1-84102-180-5, pp191-198, 2007 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Uses and dangers of peer-to-peer and instant messaging in a business environment Quaden T, Furnell SM, Papadaki M, Pinkney G Advances in Network & Communication Engineering 3, pp203-211, 2006 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Changing Trends in Vulnerability Discovery Tope SW, Furnell SM, Papadaki M, Pinkney G Advances in Network & Communication Engineering 3, pp193-202, 2006 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Social Engineering: A growing threat, with diverging directions Chelleth JV, Furnell SM, Papadaki M, Pinkney G, Dowland PS Advances in Network & Communication Engineering 3, pp179-184, 2006 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

Attack Pattern Analysis: Trends in Malware Variant Development Abu-Bakar UA, Furnell SM, Papadaki M, Pinkney G Advances in Network & Communication Engineering 3, pp90-99, 2006 Can be ordered on-line. More details & download link (if available)...

20 Internal publications

Presentations

Social Engineering: How vulnerable are we? Papadaki M Invited Presentation for Special Financial Investigation Service, Operational Directorate of Special Cases of Athens, , 2008 Sector of Information Technology, Electronic Trade & Electronic Crime, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Athens, Greece, 31 March 2008. More details & download link (if available)...

1 Presentations

Other publications

An unsupervised IDS False Alarm Reduction System – SMART Tjhai GC, Papadaki M Hakin9 IT Security Magazine, Starter Kit Vol 2 Iss 1, ISSN 1896-9801, pp 24-28, 2011 More details & download link (if available)...

Social Engineering: Exploiting the Weakest Links Papadaki M, Furnell SM, Dodge RC Whitepaper, European Network & Information Security Agency (ENISA), October 2008 More details & download link (if available)

2 Other publications

65 Publication(s) - all categories.

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