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Dr Cyril Onwubiko is a Senior Director, Enterprise Security Architecture at Pearson Plc. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a Distinguished Speaker (DVP) & Board of Governor (BoG) of the IEEE Computer Society, past Secretary – IEEE United Kingdom & Ireland, and past Chair, IEEE United Kingdom & Ireland Blockchain Group. Prior to Pearson, he was Director, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Cyber Security at Research Series Limited, where he was responsible for directing AI, Blockchain and cyber security strategies and governance. He had worked in the Financial, Telecommunication, Government & Public Services Sectors. He is a leading scholar in Cyber Situational Awareness (Cyber SA), Cyber Security, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Data Fusion, Intrusion Detection Systems and Computer Network Security; he is knowledgeable in Information Assurance, HMG Security Policy Framework (SPF) and Risk Assessment & Management. His current interests include Machine Learning, Machine Learning for Cyber Security, application of Blockchain to Cyber Security and Quantum Computing.

Cyril holds a PhD in Computer Network Security from Kingston University, London, UK; MSc in Internet Engineering, from University of East London, London, UK, and BSc, first class honours, in Computer Science & Mathematics.

He has authored several books including “Security Framework for Attack Detection in Computer Networks” and “Concepts in Numerical Methods.” He co-edited the book on “Situational Awareness in Computer Network Defense: Principles, Methods & Applications” published by IGI Global, USA; and the editor of the Cyber Science 2016 and Cyber Science 2015 proceedings of the joint and co-located conferences comprising CyberSA, Social Media, Cyber Security & Cyber Incident. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Cyber Situational Awareness (IJCSA), ISSN (Online) 2057-2182. Cyril has authored several book chapters, including Security Issues to Cloud Computing, in the book on “Cloud Computing: Principles, Systems and Applications“ by Springer, “Challenges to Managing Privacy Impact Assessment of Personal Identifiable Data“, in the book on Information Assurance and Security Technologies for Risk Assessment and Threat Management: Advances and Designing Information Systems and Network Components for Situational Awareness, in the book on Situational Awareness in Computer Network Defense: Principles, Methods and Applications. He has published over 40 articles in leading and most prestigious academic journals and conferences.

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Employment (4)

Pearson Plc: London, London, GB

2020-01-02 to present | Senior Director, Enterprise Security Architecture (CISO)
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Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Innovation & Collaboration (C-MRiC): London, London, GB

2014-11-01 to present | Founder (R&D)
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Research Research Ltd: London, London, GB

2008-07-01 to present | Director (Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & Cyber Security)
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UK Home Office: London, London, GB

2016-11-14 to 2019-09-23 | Cyber Security Operations Centre Lead (DDaT)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Kingston University: Kingston-Upon-Thames, London, GB

2003-09-02 to 2007-08-14 | PhD (Computer Network Defence)
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University of East London: London, London, GB

2000-09-14 to 2002-09-30 | MSc (Internet Engineering)
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Professional activities (3)

IEEE Computer Society: London, GB

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IEEE: London, London, GB

Senior Member
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IEEE Computer Society: Washington, DC, US

2020-01-02 to 2022-01-02 | DV (Distinguished Vistor Program)
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Works (47)

SOTER: A Playbook for Cybersecurity Incident Management

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
2022-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Cyril Onwubiko; Karim Ouazzane
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Multidimensional Cybersecurity Framework for Strategic Foresight

International Journal on Cyber Situational Awareness
2022-02-04 | Journal article
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CyberOps: Situational Awareness in Cybersecurity Operations

International Journal on Cyber Situational Awareness
2020-12-24 | Journal article
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Fraud matrix: A morphological and analysis-based classification and taxonomy of fraud

Computers & Security
2020-09 | Journal article
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Preface

2019 International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services, Cyber Security 2019
2019 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85075009975

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Challenges towards Building an effective Cyber Security Operations Centre

International Journal on Cyber Situational Awareness
2019-12-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Cyril Onwubiko; Karim Ouazzane
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Cyber KPI for Return on Security Investment

2019 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics And Assessment (Cyber SA)
2019-06 | Other
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Cyber Onboarding is ‘Broken’

2019 International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services (Cyber Security)
2019-06 | Other
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Cyber science : cyber situational awareness for predictive insight and deep learning

C-MRiC
2019-06-25 | Edited book
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CoCoa: An Ontology for Cybersecurity Operations Centre Analysis Process

2018 International Conference On Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics And Assessment (Cyber SA)
2018-06 | Other
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Cyber Science: Cyber Situational Awareness as a Tool for Analysis and Insight

C-MRiC
2018-06-11 | Edited book
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Security operations centre: situation awareness, threat intelligence and cybercrime

2017 International Conference On Social Media, Wearable And Web Analytics (Social Media)
2017-06 | Other
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Cyber Science 2017: Pioneering Research & Innovation in Cyber Situational Awareness and Cyber Security

c-MRiC
2017-06-13 | Edited book
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Understanding Cyber Situation Awareness

International Journal on Cyber Situational Awareness
2016-11-07 | Journal article
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Exploring web analytics to enhance cyber situational awareness for the protection of online web services

2016 International Conference On Cyber Security And Protection Of Digital Services (Cyber Security)
2016-06 | Other
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Cyber Science 2016

C-MRiC
2016-06-13 | Edited book
Part of ISBN: 9780993233814
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Health IT: A framework for managing privacy impact assessment of personally identifiable data

Social Media and Networking: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
2015 | Book
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2-s2.0-84958655450

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Cyber security operations centre: Security monitoring for protecting business and supporting cyber defense strategy

2015 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (CyberSA)
2015-06 | Other
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Cyber Science 2015

2015-06-08 | Edited book
Part of ISBN: 978-0993233807
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Modelling situation awareness information and system requirements for the mission using goal-oriented task analysis approach

Software Design and Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
2013 | Book
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2-s2.0-84944682907

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Designing Information Systems and Network Components for Situational Awareness

Situational Awareness in Computer Network Defense
2012 | Other
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Modelling Situation Awareness Information and System Requirements for the Mission using Goal-Oriented Task Analysis Approach

Situational Awareness in Computer Network Defense
2012 | Other
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Review of situational awareness for computer network defense

Situational Awareness in Computer Network Defense: Principles, Methods and Applications
2012 | Book
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2-s2.0-84898277287

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Review of Situational Awareness for Computer Network Defense

Situational Awareness in Computer Network Defense
2012 | Other
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Situational awareness in computer network defense: Principles, methods and applications

Situational Awareness in Computer Network Defense: Principles, Methods and Applications
2012 | Book
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2-s2.0-84898261073

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Concepts in Numerical Methods

2010 | Book
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978-3-639-18609-3

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Security Issues to Cloud Computing

Computer Communications and Networks
2010-05 | Other
Part of ISSN: 1617-7975
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A security audit framework for security management in the enterprise

Communications in Computer and Information Science
2009 | Book
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2-s2.0-70350123877

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18650929

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Challenges and complexities of managing information security

International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics
2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-68649118399

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1751911X 17519128

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Functional requirements of situational awareness in computer network security

2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
2009 | Other
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Multisensor message exchange mechanism

International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics
2008 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1751-911X
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Security Framework for Attack Detection in Computer Networks

VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
2008-12-02 | Book
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Data Fusion in Security Evidence Analysis

Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Security and Forensics ACSF 2008
2008-07-10 | Conference paper
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Managing Security Threats and Vulnerabilities for Small to Medium Enterprises

2007 IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics
2007-05 | Other
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An evolutionary approach in threats detection for distributed security defence systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2006 | Book
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2-s2.0-33745889931

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16113349 03029743

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An integrated security framework for assisting in the defence of computer networks

Joint IST Workshop on Mobile Future, 2006 and the Symposium on Trends in Communications. SympoTIC '06.
2006 | Other
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Response Mechanism for Defending Computer Networks

International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, IJCSNS
2006-08-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1738-7906
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Towards a Backup Cipher for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advances in Information and Communications Engineering, (AICEG2006)
2006-08-24 | Conference paper
Part of ISSN: 1746-8558
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Spatio-Temporal Relationships in the Analysis of Threats for Security Monitoring Systems

Proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Science & Information Systems, (ICCSIS’06)
2006-06-19 | Conference paper
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An Improved Worm Mitigation Model for Evaluating the Spread of Aggressive Network Worms

EUROCON 2005 - The International Conference on "Computer as a Tool"
2005 | Other
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Security Spaces for Protecting Users of Wireless Public Hotspots

EUROCON 2005 - The International Conference on "Computer as a Tool"
2005 | Other
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The Representation and use of Relation Information for the Detection of Threats by Security Information Management Systems

Proceedings of the First European Conference on Computer Network Defence, EC2ND’05
2005-12-04 | Conference paper
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An Information Systems Security Infrastructure to address Content Security Threats

Proceedings of the 1st Intl. Conference on Advances in Information and Communications Engineering, (AICEG2005)
2005-07-25 | Conference paper
Part of ISBN: 9988643136
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Vulnerability Assessment: Towards an Integrated Security Infrastructure

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computer Science & Information Systems (ICCSIS 2005)
2005-06-24 | Conference paper
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Challenges to Managing Privacy Impact Assessment of Personally Identifiable Data

Information Assurance and Security Technologies for Risk Assessment and Threat Management
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Health IT

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International Journal on Cyber Situational Awareness

Understanding Cyber Situation Awareness
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