Defence Against Dark Artefacts

Outputs from this project

Jiahong Chen and Lachlan Urquhart. “‘They’re All about Pushing the Products and Shiny Things Rather than Fundamental Security’: Mapping Socio-Technical Challenges in Securing the Smart Home.” Information & Communications Technology Law 31 (1): 99–122. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13600834.2021.1957193

Stanislaw Piasecki, Lachlan Urquhart, Derek McAuley, 2021. Defence against the dark artefacts: Smart home cybercrimes and cybersecurity standards, Computer Law & Security Review, Volume 42, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2021.105542.

Lachlan Urquhart and Derek McAuley. 2018 Avoiding the internet of insecure industrial things. Computer Law & Security Review Volume 34 (3) 450-466 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2017.12.004

Lachlan Urquhart, Jiahong Chen. 2021. On the principle of accountability: challenges for smart homes and cybersecurity in Andrew Crabtree, Hamed Haddadi, Richard Mortier Privacy by Design for the Internet of Things Building Accountability and Security DOI: https://doi.org/10.1049/PBSE014E_ch2

Website Story: New board game highlighting findings from smart home security research URL: https://www.horizon.ac.uk/new-board-game-highlighting-findings-from-smart-home-security-research/

Exploring technical, sociological & legal requirements for effective smart home cybersecurity including requirements for a prototype home management system. Focus on ‘compliance with design’, specifically work examining the household exemption, edge security and the accountability GDPR principle, role of data protection in homes, inadequacy of emerging cybersecurity standards, and development of a cybersecurity board game.

Collaborators: Derek McAuley (University of Nottingham), Hamed Haddadi (Imperial), Richard Mortier (Cambridge), Andy Crabtree (Nottingham), Murray Goulden (Nottingham), Jiahong Chen (Sheffield)

Partners: ARM, BT, Cisco, Digital Catapult, Internet Society, GCHQ, Crossword Cybersecurity, Petras IoT hub

Funder: EPSRC

Project dates: 2018 – 2021