Category Archives: Big Data

Design Space for Cyber Security Analytical Systems

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Ali

Cyber Security infrastructures are increasingly relying on big data technologies for capturing, storing, and analyzing huge amount of security events data. Designing and evolving systems that can effectively and efficiently combine big data technologies and cybersecurity are hugely challenging undertakings. … Continue reading →

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Adaptive Architectures for Cyber Security Analytics Systems

Posted on January 19, 2019 by Ali

It is becoming quite hard to imagine software systems that wouldn’t need adaptation as part of their runtime requirements. With the increasing demand for adaptivity by design, the knowledge and skills in this area are lagging far behind. Cyber Analytics … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Data Exfiltration, Security, Security Analytics, Security Orchestration, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Data Exfiltration: External Attack Vectors and Countermeasures

Posted on November 24, 2017 by Ali

With regards to our work on Cyber Security, we have recently successfully completed a collaborative piece fo work with researchers from Security Lancaster, University of Lancaster, UK. Our collaborative work was focused on identifying and understanding Data Exfiltration: External Vectors … Continue reading →

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An Approach to Designing and Evaluating Web of Things (WoT) Systems

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Ali

Internet of Things (IoT) have emerged a popular technology that underpinning several innovative products and services. Internet of Everything (IoE) or Web of Things (WoT) are real or virtual networks of things (or services) that can be meaningfully quarried or … Continue reading →

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Smart Campus: Model Driven Security for Systems of Systems

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Ali

Socio-technical systems underpinning smart and connected cities are good examples of systems of systems – where each constituent system act and behave independents but these systems are connected with each other and provide each other different services. Security is one … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data, Cloud Computing, Container Technologies, Cyber Security, Data Exfiltration, Green ICT, Green Software, Innovation, Internet of Everything, Internet of Things (IoTs), Model Driven Engineering (MDE), Private Cloud, Security, Smart Campus, Smart Cities, Smart Grid, Sustainability | Leave a comment

Designing and Evolving Architectures for Big Data Applications

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Ali

Big Data applications are playing critical role for all sorts of organisations. Whilst data scientist is considered a critical role for big data applications, the role of software architect has become even more critical as appropriate design and careful implementation … Continue reading →

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Reference Architecture for Cloud-Based Tools as a Service Workspace Completed

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Ali

A few years ago we started an exciting and challenging project to design and implement a reference architecture for providing Tools as a Service (TaaS). That project was aimed at developing and evaluating an infrastructure that can host and provision … Continue reading →

Posted in Architectural knowledge, Big Data, Design patterns, Design rationale, Internet of Everything, Internet of Things (IoTs), Service Oriented Computing, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Web of Things (WoTs) | Leave a comment

D2D CRC Project on Reference Architecture for Defence Big Data Systems

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Ali

Big Data systems (i.e., data-intensive applications) have become one of the key priority areas for all sorts of organizations (i.e., private or public). Big Data is usually characterized by huge amount of diverse set of data that cannot be easily … Continue reading →

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Reference Architecture for Cloud-Based Workspace of Tools

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Ali

A few years ago, we started working on designing a cloud-based infrastructure for providing Engineering tools as services, an approach we called Tools as a Service (TaaS). We have made significant progress towards materialising the concept of developing an infrastructure … Continue reading →

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Keynote Talk at the Big Data & Cloud Computing Conference

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Ali

It was a great pleasure to have an opportunity to attend the fourth edition of the Big Data and Cloud Computing Conference in Sydney at the beginning of December, 2014. I had had the privilege of listening to several great … Continue reading →

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