Leandros Maglaras
leandros maglaras

Prof Leandros Maglaras

Professor

Biography

Dr. Leandros A. Maglaras is a professor of cybersecurity in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University. From September 2017 to November 2019, he was the Director of the National Cyber Security Authority of Greece. He obtained a B.Sc. (M.Sc. equivalent) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1998, M.Sc. in Industrial Production and Management from the University of Thessaly in 2004, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Thessaly, in 2008 and 2014 respectively. In 2018 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Intrusion Detection in SCADA systems from the University of Huddersfield He is featured in Stanford University's list of the world’s Top 2% scientists. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is an author of more than 200 papers in scientific magazines and conferences.

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Editorial Activity

  • Section Editor in Chief for MDPI Computers
  • Associate Editor for Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS)
  • Associate Editor for Journal of Surveillance, Security and Safety (JSSS)
  • Section Editor of Communications and Security for IntechOpen Journal for Computer science, Artificial intelligence and robotics
  • Associate Editor for IEEE Access
  • Executive Editor for Elsevier ICT Express

 

Media Activity

  • Interview - Meet the talent - 4i magazine

 

Visiting Positions

  • Visiting Professor at De Montfort University

 

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A Novel Hybrid Cyber Range for Security Exercises on Cyber-Physical Systems

Journal Article
Hallaq, B., Nicholson, A., Smith, R., Maglaras, L., Cook, A., Janicke, H., & Jones, K. (2021)
A Novel Hybrid Cyber Range for Security Exercises on Cyber-Physical Systems. International Journal of Smart Security Technologies, 8(1), 16-34. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsst.2021010102
Incident response teams cannot prepare for every situation or predict every crisis, especially when they involve cyber-physical systems. As a result, training activities need ...

Developing Cyber Buffer Zones

Book Chapter
Robinson, M., Jones, K., Janicke, H., & Maglaras, L. (2020)
Developing Cyber Buffer Zones. In M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Criminal Activities and the Deep Web (287-303). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9715-5.ch019
Cyber peacekeeping is a new and novel field of research that focuses on the ways that nations and society can restore peace and security in the aftermath of cyber warfare. In ...

The Cost Perspective of Password Security

Book Chapter
Maglaras, L., Janicke, H., & Ferrag, M. A. (2020)
The Cost Perspective of Password Security. In B. B. Gupta, & D. Gupta (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Multimedia Cyber Security (319-330). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2701-6.ch017
This study technically analyses the maximum number of combinations for common passwords up to 12 characters long. A maximum storage size necessary for the creation of a data b...

Cyber Threats in the Healthcare Sector and Countermeasures

Book Chapter
Ahmed, M. M., Maglaras, L., & Ferrag, M. A. (2020)
Cyber Threats in the Healthcare Sector and Countermeasures. In A. Masouras, G. Maris, & A. Kavoura (Eds.), Entrepreneurial Development and Innovation in Family Businesses and SMEs (109-124). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3648-3.ch007
Healthcare is one of the most targeted industries by cybercriminals. The healthcare sector is far behind in cybersecurity as compared to other organizations. The vulnerabiliti...

Two-Hop Monitoring Mechanism Based on Relaxed Flow Conservation Constraints against Selective Routing Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Journal Article
Derhab, A., Bouras, A., Belaoued, M., Maglaras, L., & Khan, F. A. (2020)
Two-Hop Monitoring Mechanism Based on Relaxed Flow Conservation Constraints against Selective Routing Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks. Sensors, 20(21), Article 6106. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20216106
In this paper, we investigate the problem of selective routing attack in wireless sensor networks by considering a novel threat, named the upstream-node effect, which limits t...

The Security Aspects of Automotive Over-the-Air Updates

Journal Article
Howden, J., Maglaras, L., & Ferrag, M. A. (2020)
The Security Aspects of Automotive Over-the-Air Updates. International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism, 10(2), 64-81. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijcwt.2020040104
Over-the-air (OTA) update is a method for vehicle manufacturers to remotely distribute maintenance updates, performance, and feature enhancements through the vehicle's lifespa...

RDTIDS: Rules and Decision Tree-Based Intrusion Detection System for Internet-of-Things Networks

Journal Article
Ferrag, M. A., Maglaras, L., Ahmim, A., Derdour, M., & Janicke, H. (2020)
RDTIDS: Rules and Decision Tree-Based Intrusion Detection System for Internet-of-Things Networks. Future Internet, 12(3), Article 44. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12030044
This paper proposes a novel intrusion detection system (IDS), named RDTIDS, for Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. The RDTIDS combines different classifier approaches which ar...

Use Of Smartphones for Ensuring Vulnerable Road User Safety through Path Prediction and Early Warning: An In-Depth Review of Capabilities, Limitations and Their Applications in Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems

Journal Article
Vourgidis, I., Maglaras, L., Alfakeeh, A. S., Al-Bayatti, A. H., & Ferrag, M. A. (2020)
Use Of Smartphones for Ensuring Vulnerable Road User Safety through Path Prediction and Early Warning: An In-Depth Review of Capabilities, Limitations and Their Applications in Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems. Sensors, 20(4), Article 997. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20040997
The field of cooperative intelligent transport systems and more specifically pedestrians to vehicles could be characterized as quite challenging, since there is a broad resear...

Teaching the process of building an Intrusion Detection System using data from a small-scale SCADA testbed

Journal Article
Maglaras, L., Cruz, T., Ferrag, M. A., & Janicke, H. (2020)
Teaching the process of building an Intrusion Detection System using data from a small-scale SCADA testbed. Internet Technology Letters, 3(1), Article e132. https://doi.org/10.1002/itl2.132
Security of Critical National Infrastructures (CNI) is one of the major concerns to countries both in a European and in a worldwide level. Training on scenarios that involve s...

Estimating the Relative Speed of RF Jammers in VANETs

Journal Article
Kosmanos, D., Argyriou, A., & Maglaras, L. (2019)
Estimating the Relative Speed of RF Jammers in VANETs. Security and Communication Networks, 2019, Article 2064348. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/2064348
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) aim at enhancing road safety and providing a comfortable driving environment by delivering early warning and infotainment messages to the dr...

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