PROGRAMME & SCHEDULE

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All times shown are UK Time zone: GMT+1
Moderator: Konstantinos Mersinas
In-person only
Morning Session
08:45 – 09:30 Registration & Breakfast (45 minutes)
Registration desk closes promptly at 09:30. All delegates are kindly asked to arrive in good time to complete registration before the session begins.
09:30 – 09:50 Conference Announcements & Opening of Proceedings
Dr Cyril Onwubiko Founder, Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Innovation and Collaboration (C-MRIC)
"Cyber Science 2026 - the 11th International Conference on Cybersecurity, Situational Awareness and Social Media."
10:00 – 11:00 Keynote Session
Dr Carolyn Swinney
Royal Air Force Communications & Electronics Engineering Officer; Executive Fellow, University of Essex
11:00 – 11:10Coffee & Tea Break (10 minutes)
11:10 – 11:35 Security Incident Filtering Theory A Model of Log Analysts' Prioritizations
Teodor Sommestad (Swedish Defence Research Agency)*; Henrik Karlzén (Swedish Defence Research Agency); Max Landauer (Austrian Institute of Technology); Markus Wurzenberger (Austrian Institute of Technology); Florian Skopik (Austrian Institute of Technology)
11:35 – 12:00 What Investigators Inherit: Public Corpora as Evidence States for Forensic Readiness Evaluation
Belinda Onyeashie (University of the West of England)*; Jonathan Lancelot (University of the West of England); Petra Leimich (Edinburgh Napier University)
12:00 – 13:00Group Photograph & Lunch Break (60 minutes)
Afternoon Session
13:10 – 13:35 Impact of Import Hash on ML-Based YARA Rule Generation - A PoC Study
Ferenc Leitold (Óbuda University)*
13:35 – 14:00 CROFv2- Moving Beyond a General Cyber Resilience Framework
Cyril Onwubiko (Research Series)*
14:10 – 14:35 A Comparative Analysis of Situational Awareness Support in Cyber Incident Response Ticketing Systems
Liberty Kent (University College London)*; Nilufer Tuptuk (University College London); Ingolf Becker (University College London)
15:00 – 15:25 The Epistemology of Confident Machines
Carolyn Swinney (University of Essex)*
15:25 – 15:55Coffee & Tea Break (30 minutes)
16:00 – 16:25 An Artefact-Driven Framework for Embedding Security by Design in the Systems Engineering V-Model
Enoch Agyepong (Elbit Systems, UK)*
16:30 – 16:55 Quantum Vulnerability as a Financial Impairment Triggering Event: Rethinking Capitalised Systems with Cryptographic Infrastructure Dependencies under IAS 36, IAS 38, ASC 350-40 and ASC 360-10
Tim Williams (Bank of Ireland)*
17:00 – 17:25 Hierarchical Detection of Malicious Command Lines Using Random Forest and Context-Aware LSTM
Yixian Jiang (University of Glasgow)*; Qinzheng Hu (University of Glasgow)*; Pavandeep Singh Baxi (University of Glasgow)
18:00 – 21:00 Evening Conference Dinner, Drinks & Photographs
Antalya Restaurant, London, UK - https://antalyarestaurant.co.uk/
Moderator: Martin Gilje Jaatun
In-person only
Morning Session
08:30 – 09:00Breakfast - Tea, Coffee & Water (30 minutes)
09:00 – 10:00 Keynote Session
Dr Konstantinos Mersinas
Associate Professor, Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
10:00 – 10:10Break (10 minutes)
10:10 – 10:35 PolicyControls: A Web-Based Platform for Cybersecurity Control Assessment and Compliance Management
Cyril Onwubiko (Research Series)*
10:35 – 11:00 WiFiPenTester: Towards Governed GenAl-Assisted Wireless Penetration Testing
Haitham Al-Sinani (RHUL)*; Chris Mitchell (Royal Holloway, University of London); Abdulaziz Al-Hosni (Diwan of Royal Court); Sultan Al-Harrasi (University of Technology and Applied Sciences)
11:05 – 11:30 Operational Technology in the Cloud
Karin Bernsmed (SINTEF Digital); Martin Gilje Jaatun (SINTEF ICT)*; Maren Istad (SINTEF Energy)
11:35 – 12:00Break (25 minutes)
12:00 – 13:00Group Photograph & Lunch Break (60 minutes)
Afternoon Session
13:10 – 13:35 Know Your Unknowns: A Strategic Johari Game for Cyber Security Management
Eckhard Pfluegel (Kingston University)*; Neda Ahmadi (Kingston University); Rehan Usman (Kingston University)
13:35 – 14:00 Cybersecurity Economics, PQC and Al 25 Years Post Anderson (2001)
Tim Williams (Bank of Ireland)*
14:10 – 14:35 The Rise and Rise of LLM-Powered Penetration Testing Systems: The State of the Art
Haitham Al-Sinani (Diwan of Royal Court & German University of Technology in Oman)*; Chris Mitchell (Royal Holloway, University of London); Abdulaziz Al-Hosni (Diwan of Royal Court)
15:00 – 15:25
15:25 – 15:55Coffee & Tea Break (30 minutes)
16:00 – 16:25 Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Situation Awareness: Trust, Distortion and Human Judgement
Ibrahim Maniku (Queen Mary University of London)*; Maria Bada (Queen Mary University of London)
16:30 Conference closes for in-person
Moderator: Cyril Onwubiko
Remote only
Morning Session
08:30 – 09:00Breakfast - Tea, Coffee & Water (30 minutes)
09:00 – 10:00 Keynote Session
Dr Deepthi Ratnayake
Principal Lecturer in Cyber Security, Cybersecurity & Computing Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire, UK
10:00 – 10:30Break (30 minutes)
10:35 – 11:00 ToolProbe: A Two-Stage Evaluation Framework for LLM Agent Safety in MCP Tool-Calling Environments
Ramkumar Sundarakalatharan (Zerberus.ai)*; Sriram Gopalakrishnan (Zerberus.ai)
11:05 – 11:30 Protecting Against Deepfake Voice Synthesis: A Gradient-Based Approach to Secure Voice Communications
Jordan O'Hara (Naked Energy); Sanaz Kavianpour (Abertay University)*; Marc Kydd (Abertay University)
11:30 – 12:00 A Comparative Study of Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Transformer-Based Models for Malware Detection with an Adaptive Mixture-of-Experts Framework
Rama Satya CH (Mahindra University)*; Raghu Kisore N (Mahindra University)
12:00 – 13:00Lunch Break (60 minutes)
Afternoon Session
13:10 – 13:35 Cyber Threat Intelligence Implementation in Critical Infrastructure: A Malaysian Perspective
NURUL NUHA BINTI ABDUL MOLOK (International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM))*; SHUHAILI BT. TALIB (International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)); NOOR HAYANI BINTI ABD RAHIM (International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)); ZAHIDAH BINTI ZULKIFLI (International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM))
13:35 – 14:00Mitigating Skin-Tone Bias in Al-Based Melanoma Detection Using Neural Style Transfer and Adversarial Domain Adaptation
Nyasha Samuel Makanza (University of Portsmouth); Intissar Ziani (University of Abdelhamid Mehri); Konstantina Kanta (Beiersdorf); Gueltoum Bendiab (University of Portsmouth); Aikaterini Kanta (University of Portsmouth)*
14:05 – 14:30 Artificial Intelligence as a Force Multiplier in Social Engineering: An Experiential Learning Approach
Aunshul Rege (Temple University)*; Hwanhee Park (Temple University); John Snee (Temple University)
14:30 Conference Closing Remarks
Prof. Martin G. Jaatun
All times shown are UK Time (GMT+1). Programme subject to minor changes.
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