Mark Josephs

Professor of Computer Science/Centre Lead

School of Computing and Digital Technology - CDT

Email:: mark.josephs@bcu.ac.uk

Professor Josephs has a BSc (Hons) degree in Mathematics from University College London and MSc and DPhil degrees in Computer Science from the University of Oxford.

After spending a year as a Visiting Scientist at IBM Yorktown Heights in 1987, he returned to Oxford where he was appointed a member of the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences and a lecturer at Trinity College. He joined London South Bank University in 1993 and was promoted to Professor of Computing in 1998.

Between 1992 and 2006, he engaged with the Microelectronics Industry as the leader of an inter-organizational expert community of practice that was supported by the European Commission. He was appointed a Senior Fellow in Cyber Security at the University of Warwick, 2010-2012, and Professor of Computer Science at Birmingham City University in 2015.

He has served as a member of the UK Computing Research Committee since 2004, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's Peer Review College since 2010 and the Innovate UK Assessor Pool and the BCS Fellows Technical Advisory Group since 2021.

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Publications

Zhou, X., Nehme, A., Jesus, V., Wang, Y., Josephs, M., Mahbub, K., and Abdallah, A. (2022) AudiWFlow: Confidential, Collusion-resistant Auditing of Distributed Workflows. Blockchain: Research and Applications. ISSN 2096-7209. DOI: 10.1016/j.bcra.2022.100073.
Pordelkhaki, M., Fouad, S., and Josephs, M. (2021) Intrusion Detection for Industrial Control Systems by Machine Learning using Privileged Information. In: Proceedings of the 19th Annual IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), 2-3 November 2021, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Adaros-Boye, C., Kearney, P., Josephs, M., and Ulmer, H. (2021) An Indicators-of-Risk Library for Industrial Network Security. In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Secure and Resilient Smart manufacturing environments (SecRS), ARES 2021 Virtual Conference.
Zhou, X., Jesus, V., Wang, Y., and Josephs, M. (2021) User-Controlled, Auditable, Cross-Jurisdiction Sharing of Healthcare Data Mediated by a Public Blockchain. In: Proceedings of IEEE TrustCom 2020, 29 December 2020 - 1 January 2021, Guangzhou, China.
Adaros-Boye, C., Kearney, P., and Josephs, M. (2020) Continuous Risk Management for Industrial IoT: A Methodological View. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Risk and Security of Internet and Systems, 29-31 October 2019, Hammamet, Tunisia.
Zhou, X., Nehme, A., Wang, Y., Josephs, M., and Mahbub, K. (2019) Towards Blockchain-Based Auditing of Data Exchanges. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference, SmartBlock 2019, 11–13 October 2019, Birmingham, UK.
Ahmed, Y., Naqvi, S., and Josephs, M. (2019) Cybersecurity Metrics for Enhanced Protection of Healthcare IT Systems. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, 8-10 May 2019, Oslo, Norway.
Naqvi, S., Sommer, P., and Josephs, M. (2019) A Research-led Practice-driven Digital Forensic Curriculum to Train Next Generation of Cyber Firefighters. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference 2019, 9-11 April 2019, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Ahmed, Y, Naqvi, S, and Josephs, M (2018) Aggregation of Security Metrics for Decision Making: A Reference Architecture. In: 12th European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Proceedings (ECSA 18), 24-28 September 2018, Madrid.
Adaros Boye, C, Kearney, P, and Josephs, M (2018) Cyber-risks in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): towards a method for continuous assessment. In: 21st Information Security Conference ISC 2018, 9-12 September, 2018, Guildford.
Adaros Boye, C, and Kearney, P, and Josephs, M (2018) Collective responsibility and mutual coercion in IoT botnets A tragedy of the commons problem. In: International Workshop on Behavioral Analysis for System Security - BASS 2018, 26-28 July, 2018, Porto.
Jesus, V, and Josephs, M (2018) Challenges in Cybersecurity for Industry 4.0. In: Aneiba, A, Athwal, C, and Shah, H (eds.) Thoughts and Reflections on Industry 4.0, Belmont Press, ISBN: 978-1-5272-2983-9, Pages 61-70.