Post Doctoral Research Fellow - Egham, United Kingdom - Royal Holloway University of London

Royal Holloway University of London

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Egham, United Kingdom

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Department of Information Security:

Location:

Egham
Salary:

- £37,467 per annum pro rata - including London Allowance-
Post Type:

Full Time
Closing Date:

hours GMT on Monday 30 January 2023
Reference:
RFull-Time, Fixed-Term (until June 2023)

Project description. EXFILES focusses on mobile forensics and specifically targets modern handheld communication devices, such as smartphones and tablet computers. The use of mobile devices in criminal and unlawful activities creates a number of challenges for Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs), for whom data stored on such devices can be an important source of information and evidence about lawbreaking. At the same time, the general-public demand assurances (technical, legal and ethical) that their personal information will remain private. The goal of the EXFILES project is to explore modern mobile devices used in organised crime. Existing side-channel-analysis (SCA) and reverse engineering (RE) techniques will be revisited and new ones will be explored. Lessons learned from recent advances in Common Criteria Security Evaluations, Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), Firmware and Systems-on-Chip (SoC) will also enable academic partners to enhance mobile forensics science. Equally important, the project will evaluate the ethical issue of how consumers' rights to privacy should be weighed against the requirements of LEAs in mobile and digital forensics research. EXFILES brings together the unique expertise of the project participants and the core of the EU legal frameworks in order to fulfil the project's goals and make Europe a safer place by protecting its citizens while also safeguarding their rights. Αnother unique dimension of EXFILES is the clear focus on the ethical and legal aspects of research and exploitation as well as dissemination and training activities for the next generation of forensic experts.

When/Where. This is a full-time post, available as soon as possible, for a fixed term period until the end of the project (end of June The post is based in Egham, Surrey, where Royal Holloway, University of London is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park and within commuting distance from London. Royal Holloway, University of London is one of the fourteen Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the UK recognised by the UK National Security Centre (NCSC) as a Centre of Academic Excellence in Cyber Security Research, and only one of the two HEIs awarded with a Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security.

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Closing Date
:23:59, 30 January 2023

Interview Date
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To be confirmed

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Job Description & Person Specification
The university has adopted hybrid working for some roles therefore some remote working may be possible for this role.