Technology Development for Security Practitioners

lt;p>Babak Akhgar is Professor of Informatics, co-founder and Director of CENTRIC (Centre of excellence in terrorism, resilience, intelligence and organized crime research) at Sheffield Hallam University and Fellow of the British Computer Society. Prof Akhgar graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in Software Engineering.  Afterwards he gained considerable commercial experience as a Strategy Analyst and Methodology Director for several companies.   He consolidated this experience by obtaining a Masters degree (with distinction) in Information Systems in Management and a PhD in Strategic Information Systems from Sheffield Hallam University. He has more than 140 publications in international journals and conferences on SIS with specific focus on knowledge management (KM) within security domain. He has successfully supervised 12 PhD students.  He is member of editorial boards of a number of international Journals, Chair and programme committee member of several international conferences. He has extensive and hands on experience in development, management and execution of Intelligence Management projects in large international security initiatives (e.g. Application of social media in crisis management , intelligence based combating of terrorism and organised crime, Gun crime, cyber security, Big Data and cross cultural ideology polarisation) with multi-million Euros budgets. In addition to this he is currently the technical lead of 3 EU Security projects; "Courage" on Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism and "Athena project" on Application of social media and mobile devices in crisis management and "Tensor" on identification of terrorist generated content. Prof Akhgar is founder of CENTRIC OSINT Hub, which provides law enforcement agencies with state of art capabilities to conduct wide range of open source based investigation from Organised Crime network to Counter Terrorism. CENTRIC OSINT HUB is used by wide range of LEAs in UK. He has co-edited a book on Intelligence management (Knowledge Driven frameworks for combating Terrorism and Organised crime). His recent books are titled Strategic Intelligence Management (National Security Imperatives and Information and Communications Technologies) Emerging Trends in ICT Security, Application of Big Data for National Security and Application of OSINT for investigation. Prof Akhgar was Trustee of Police National Legal Database (PNLD) for 2 years. In 2016 Prof Akhgar was chairman of Police Strategy forum. Prof Akhgar is member of academic advisory board of SAS UK, member of UN Safer cities technology task force, Board member of European Organisation for Security (EOS) and member of Europol external advisory board on data protection.

Dimitrios Kavallieros is a researcher - project manager at the Center for Security Studies - KEMEA of the Hellenic Ministry of Citizen Protection. He holds an MSc in Ethical Hacking and Computer Security from the University of Abertay. He is currently PhD candidate at University of Peloponnese. He has also published more than 15 articles in conference proceedings, journals and book chapters with specific focus in cybersecurity, cyberterrorism and digital forensics. He has participated in several European and National funded research projects, mainly focused on Cybersecurity, Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism, IoT & Cloud Security/Forensics, Digital Forensics and Blockchain technology.  Currently he is the coordinator of the EU H2020-project Cyber-Trust on IoT cybersecurity and of the EU H2020-project FORESIGHT on cybersecurity preparedness, cyber range and simulation and the innovation manager of the EU H2020-project PROPHETS on human factors and new methods to prevent, investigate and mitigate cybercriminal behaviours. In addition, he acts as the project manager of several H2020 projects in KEMEA, including but not limited to AIDA, LOCARD and SPARTA. Most recently he co-authored the chapter book

Introduction.- Part 1: Cyber Crime, Cyber Terrorism and Cyber Security Cybercrime .- Cyber Terrorism.- Cyber Security .- AI and Cyber .- Part 2: Border Security .- Border Security Technologies.- Methodological approaches to border security.- Integrated platforms for border security management.- Part 3 Serious and Organized Crime (SOC).- Data Integration for combating SOC.- Big Data Analytics in context of SOC.- Data Visualisation and pattern matching .- AI and SOC.- Part 4: Protection of Critical Infrastructures (CI).- Cyber and System security for protection of CI.- Physical security of CI.- Role of UAVs in protection of CI.- Case studies in protection of CI.- Part 5: Disaster and Crisis management.- First responders technology.- Crisis management .- Disaster management and Resilience strengthening technologies.- Conclusion.