Future European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security
If you would be interested in hosting ECCWS, please read the hosting document and contact Sue Nugus, Conferences Director, for more information.
ECCWS 2022
University of Chester
Binks Building
Exton Park
Chester
CH1 4AR
United Kingdom
16 - 17 June 2022
Proceedings
The Electronic Proceedings from ECCWS are included in your registration and are available to download for conference participants. They are also available to purchase in 2 different formats.
- Pdf - £50 plus Postage and Packaging
- Printed Version - £70 plus Postage and Packaging
Winners at ECCWS 2022
Best PhD Paper
A Cyber Counterintelligence Competence Framework
Thenjiwe Sithole with Jaco Du Toit, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
MASTERS SPECIAL MENTION
Forensic Trails Obfuscation and Preservation via Hard Drive Firmware
Paul Underhill with Toyosi Oyinloye, Thaddeus Eze, University of Chester and Lee Speakman, University of Salford, UK
POSTERS
Post Modernism, Post Truth, and the Information Warfare on Democracy: Ethical and Anticipated Ethical Issues
Richard Wislon, Towson University, Towson, United States
Conference Executives
Conference Co-Chairs:
Dr Thaddeus Eze and Dr Nabeel Khan, University of Chester, UK
Programme Chair:
Dr Cyril Onwubiko, Research Series Limited
Keynote Speakers:
Dr Brett van Niekerk, Noëlle Van der Waag-Cowling, Dr Trishana Ramluckan
Multidisciplinarity and Multistakeholderism for Cyber Resilience of Emerging Economies: Lessons from Cyber Challenges
Dr Charles Clarke
Employability by Design: A Strategy for Career Ownership
Message of Thanks
We extend our thanks to all participants at the conference, both presenters and attendees and gratefully acknowledge the support of the host the University of Chester, UK, along with assistance provided by the Conference and Programme Co-chairs and keynote speakers. The stream and mini track chairs are to be applauded for their efforts in ensuring that timekeeping requirements were respected by all participants and the chair and discussants of the PhD Colloquium are thanked for their invaluable contribution to this important part of the conference. Finally, we value and unreservedly acknowledge the essential role performed by the executive and programme committees in respect of the double blind review process.
We trust that the overall the conference exceeded your expectations; we welcome your feedback.
Previous ECCWS Conferences
ECCWS 2021
Virtually Hosted by:
ACPI and University of Chester
Parkgate Road Chester
CH1 4BJ
24 - 25 June 2021
Winners at ECCWS 2021
Best PhD Paper
Joint 1st place
Aviation Sector Computer Security Incident Response Teams: Guidelines and Best Practice
Faith Lekota, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Talos: A Prototype Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for Profiling Ransomware Behaviour
Ashley Wood, University of Chester, UK
Joint 2nd Place
The Impact of GDPR Infringment Fines on the Market Value of Firms
Adrian Ford, University of East London, UK
Bio‐Cyber Operations inspired by the Human Immune System
Seyedali Pourmoafi, University of Hertfordshire, UK
MASTERS (JOINT) WINNERS
Employing Machine Learning Paradigms for detecting DNS Tunnelling
Jitesh Miglani and Christina Thorpe, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
The Use of Neural Networks to Classify Malware Families
Theodore Drewes and Joel Coffman, United States Air Force Academy, USA
POSTERS
Media Ecology, Twitter and Information Warfare: Ethical and Anticipated ethical issues
Richard Wilson, Towson University, United States
Software Protection Measures- Inter-process CFI for peer/reciprocal monitoring in RISCV based binaries
Toyosi Oyinloye, University of Chester, UK
Conference Executives
Conference Co-Chairs:
Dr Thaddeus Eze and Dr Lee Speakman, University of Chester, UK
Programme Chair:
Dr Cyril Onwubiko, Research Series Limited
Keynote Speakers:
Detective Constable William Farrell, Police Constable Phil Byrom, Temporary Detective Chief Inspector (T/DCI) David Turner ,Detective Constable Michael Roberts, Keith Terrill, Louisa Murphy
Policing the UK Cyber Space, Current Cyber Crime Patterns and Trends - Covering the Traditional and Dark Webs, Cyber Choices – Pathways into Cyber Crime, and Helping Young People Choose the Right and Legal Path
ECCWS 2020
Hosted by:
ACPI and University of Chester
Parkgate Road Chester
CH1 4BJ
25 - 26 June 2020
Winners at ECCWS 2020
Best PhD Paper
"The three “Cyber Logics” and their Implications to Cyber Conflicts: Germany, France and UK as Case Studies,
Toso de Alcântara Bruna, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Special commendations to :
Towards Cyber‐User Awareness: Design and Evaluation,
Oyinloye Toyosi, Thaddeus Eze and Lee Speakman, University of Chester, UK
Comparing Personality Traits Between Pentration Tester, Information Security and ITS Professionals from two Cohorts,
Opedal Olav, Capella University, Minneapolis, USA
Conference Executives
Conference Co-Chairs:
Dr Thaddeus Eze and Dr Lee Speakman, University of Chester, UK
Programme Chair:
Dr Cyril Onwubiko, Research Series Limited
Keynote Speakers:
Damian Ward, Metropolitan Police
Experiences of Policing Cybercrime in the UK: Challenges and Successes
Dr Cyril Onwubiko, Research Series Limited
A Comprehensive Cyber Recovery Operational Framework Service
ECCWS 2019
Hosted by:
Department of Informatics Engineering
University of Coimbra - Campus 2 (Polo II)
3030-290 Coimbra,
Portugal
4-5 July 2019
Winners at ECCWS 2019
Joint Best PhD Papers
Aarne Hummelholm, University of Jyvaskyla, Tampere, Finland
E-health Systems in Digital Environments
Kautsarina Kautsarina, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia
Government Efforts Toward Promoting IoT Security Awareness for End Users: a Study of Existing Initiatives
Poster Winner
ECCWS 2018
Hosted by:
Department of Informatics,
University of Oslo,
Ole-Johan Dahl’s House,
Gaustadalléen 23b, 0373 Oslo, Norway
28 - 29 June 2018
Winners at ECCWS 2018
PhD Winner:
Scalable distributed traffic monitoring for enterprise networks with Spark Streaming
Andres Ocampo, Tim Wauters, Bruno Volckaert and Filip De Turck, Ghent University, Belgium
Poster Winner:
Deception as a Service: A Reverse Web Proxy Framework
Daniel Fraunholz, Daniel Reti and Hans Dieter Schotten from the Intelligent Networks Research Group at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence