Dr Nader Sohrabi Safa
Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security
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Biography
Dr Nader Sohrabi Safa is currently a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security at the Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University. Nader has five years Postdoctoral experience in cyber security in Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa, and Cyber Security Centre, WMG, University of Warwick. He was a senior lecturer in cyber security in University of Wolverhampton. His academic experience and 15 years industry experience in the field of Computer Science and cyber security have provided a strong backbone for his work. He has participated in several large-scale projects such as PETRAS, Data Protection in Industry, Human Aspects of Information Security, and so on. He is reviewer in several well-known journals in the domain of cyber security. He also is PC member and organizer of several international conferences every year.
Projects
PETRAS (Internet of Things in the UK)
Protecting Data in Industry
Cyber Security Breaches Survey
Information Security Consultancy role in Solved Project
Human Aspects of Cyber Security in Organizations
Teaching
Supervision
Please contact me if you are interested in starting your PhD with me in cyber security.
I am interested in:
- Security Software Design
- Malware analysis and detection (obfuscation techniques, polymorphic, and zero day malware)
- Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
- Bots detection in social networks
- Detection of fake profiles in social networks / on the Internet
- Detection of fake review in e-Commerce websites (Amazon, eBay, and so on)
- Cyber terrorism detection
- Cyber crime detection
- Cyber Bulling
- Network security
- Human aspects of cyber security
- Trust protection on the Internet
- Blockchain and Smart Contract
Research outputs
Please refer to:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kRkRkkcAAAAJ&hl=en
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Journal articles
Ibrahim, M., Safa, N.S. (2023) 'Detecting message spoofing attacks on smart vehicles.' Computer Fraud & Security, 2023(12)
Ibrahim, M., Safa, N.S. (2023) 'Vulnerabilities and risk in smart vehicle automatic parking assist systems.' Network Security, 2023(6)
Chatrabgoun, O., Daneshkhah, A., Esmaeilbeigi, M., Sohrabi Safa, N., Alenezi, A.H., Rahman, A. (2022) 'Predicting primary sequence-based protein-protein interactions using a Mercer series representation of nonlinear support vector machine.' IEEE Access, 10pp. 124345-124354.
Safa, N.S., Mitchell, F., Maple, C., Azad, M.A., Dabbagh, M. (2022) 'Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) for connected vehicles in smart cities.' Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 33(10) pp. e4173-e4173.
Butt, S.A., Jamal, T., Azad, M.A., Ali, A., Safa, N.S. (2022) 'A multivariant secure framework for smart mobile health application.' Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 33(8) pp. e3684-e3684.
Sookhak, M., Jabbarpour, M.R., Safa, N.S., Yu, F.R. (2021) 'Blockchain and smart contract for access control in healthcare: a survey, issues and challenges, and open issues.' Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 178
Dabbagh, M., Choo, K.K.R., Beheshti, A., Tahir, M., Safa, N.S. (2021) 'A survey of empirical performance evaluation of permissioned blockchain platforms: challenges and opportunities.' Computers and Security, 100pp. 102078-102078.
Aqra, I., Ghani, N.A., Maple, C., Machado, J., Safa, N.S. (2019) 'Incremental algorithm for association rule mining under dynamic threshold.' Applied Sciences, 9(24)
Safa, N.S., Maple, C., Furnell, S., Azad, M.A., Perera, C., Dabbagh, M., Sookhak, M. (2019) 'Deterrence and prevention-based model to mitigate information security insider threats in organisations.' Future Generation Computer Systems, 97pp. 587-597.
Safa, N.S., Maple, C., Haghparast, M., Watson, T., Dianati, M. (2019) 'An opportunistic resource management model to overcome resource-constraint in the Internet of Things.' Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 31(8) pp. e5014-e5014.
Dabbagh, M., Sookhak, M., Safa, N.S. (2019) 'The evolution of blockchain: a bibliometric study.' IEEE Access, 7pp. 19212-19221.
Safa, N.S., Maple, C., Watson, T., Von Solms, R. (2018) 'Motivation and opportunity based model to reduce information security insider threats in organisations.' Journal of Information Security and Applications, 40pp. 247-257.
Safa, N.S., Maple, C., Watson, T., Furnell, S. (2018) 'Information security collaboration formation in organisations.' IET Information Security, 12(3) pp. 238-245.
Kamarudin, M.H., Maple, C., Watson, T., Safa, N.S. (2017) 'A LogitBoost-Based Algorithm for Detecting Known and Unknown Web Attacks.' IEEE Access, 5pp. 26190-26200.
Sookhak, M., Yu, F.R., He, Y., Talebian, H., Sohrabi Safa, N., Zhao, N., Khan, M.K., Kumar, N. (2017) 'Fog Vehicular Computing: Augmentation of Fog Computing Using Vehicular Cloud Computing.' IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, 12(3) pp. 55-64.
Safa, N.S. (2017) 'The information security landscape in the supply chain.' Computer Fraud and Security, 2017(6) pp. 16-20.
Kamarudin, M.H., Maple, C., Watson, T., Safa, N.S. (2017) 'A New Unified Intrusion Anomaly Detection in Identifying Unseen Web Attacks.' Security and Communication Networks, 2017
Safa, N.S., Maple, C. (2016) 'Human errors in the information security realm – and how to fix them.' Computer Fraud and Security, 2016(9) pp. 17-20.
Chiroma, H., Abdul-Kareem, S., Shukri Mohd Noor, A., Abubakar, A.I., Sohrabi Safa, N., Shuib, L., Fatihu Hamza, M., Ya’u Gital, A., Herawan, T. (2016) 'A Review on Artificial Intelligence Methodologies for the Forecasting of Crude Oil Price.' Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, 22(3) pp. 449-462.
Safa, N.S., Von Solms, R. (2016) 'An information security knowledge sharing model in organizations.' Computers in Human Behavior, 57pp. 442-451.
Sohrabi Safa, N., Von Solms, R., Furnell, S. (2016) 'Information security policy compliance model in organizations.' Computers and Security, 56pp. 70-82.
Safa, N.S., Solms, R.V., Futcher, L. (2016) 'Human aspects of information security in organisations.' Computer Fraud and Security, 2016(2) pp. 15-18.
Safa, N.S., Sookhak, M., Von Solms, R., Furnell, S., Ghani, N.A., Herawan, T. (2015) 'Information security conscious care behaviour formation in organizations.' Computers and Security, 53pp. 65-78.
Safa, N.S., Ghani, N.A., Ismail, M.A. (2014) 'An artificial neural network classification approach for improving accuracy of customer identification in e-commerce.' Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, 27(3) pp. 171-185.
Safa, N.S., Ismail, M.A. (2013) 'A customer loyalty formation model in electronic commerce.' Economic Modelling, 35pp. 559-564.
Safa, N.S., Ismail, M.A. (2013) 'Investigations on e-trust and e-satisfaction of customers for e-loyalty: The case of Iranian e-commerce.' Actual Problems of Economics, 139(1) pp. 492-502.
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Conference papers
Sheik, A.T., Maple, C., Watson, T., Alhagagi, H., Safa, N.S., Woo-Lee, S. (2017) 'A threat based approach to computational offloading for collaborative cruise control.'
Sohrabi Safa, N., Maple, C., Watson, T. (2017) 'An information security risk management model for smart industries.' 6. pp. 257-262.
Delport, P.M.J., Gerber, M., Safa, N.S. (2016) 'An interactive visual library model to improve awareness in handling of business information.' pp. 18-26.
Safa, N.S., Ismail, M.A. (2014) 'Customer E-loyalty: From an estimate in electronic commerce with an artificial neural fuzzy interface system (ANFIS).' 285 LNEE. pp. 667-674.