Projects

2022

Measuring the Suitability of Artificial Intelligence in Autonomous Resilience for Cyber Defence
Craig Williams, Andrew McCarthy, Alasdair Vincent, Phil Legg
Funded by Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (£5k)
Collaboration with Trimetis Ltd. and PA Consulting Ltd.
September 2022 – November 2022

Cyber Security and Data Governance for SMEs
Phil Legg, Felix Ritchie, Aida Abzhaparova, Thomas Win, Elizabeth Green, Martin Webley, Ian Johnson
Funded by National Cyber Security Centre (£40k)
September 2022 – March 2023

Cyber Security Education for Schools
Phil Legg, Aida Abzhaparova, Alan Mills, Zeinab Rezaeifar, Martin Webley, Ian Johnson
Funded by National Cyber Security Centre (£41k)
September 2022 – March 2023

Transform Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs); UK's First Technology Line of Defence
Nic Ryder, Phil Legg, Demelza Hall, Sam Bourton, Diana Johnson
Funded by InnovateUK (£47k)
Collaboration with Synalogik Innovations Ltd.
September 2022 – February 2024

Building a place-based approach to preventing online sexual abuse
Kieran McCartan (PI), Ameila Anning, Ian Johnson, Matt Wood, Nick Addis, Phil Legg
Funded by Vice Chancellor’s Challenge Fund 2022-23 (£25k)
September 2022 – August 2023

Turing Network Development Awards
Matt Studley, Phil Legg (Co-I), Nic Ryder, and Felix Ritchie
Funded by Alan Turing Institute (£25k)
February 2022 – January 2023

Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Cluster (CSC3)
Phil Legg and Nic Ryder
Funded by UWE Expanding Research Excellence Scheme (£100k)
January 2022 – July 2023

Cyber security analytics in telecommunications systems: Managing security and service in complex real-time 5G networks
Phil Legg
PhD Candidate: James Barrett
Funded by UWE Partnership PhD scheme in collaboration with Ribbon Communications Ltd. (£70k)
January 2022 – December 2024

2021

Co-creation of innovative school projects for teachers to improve cyber security education
Phil Legg (PI), Ian Johnson and Elaine Brown
Funded by National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) (£50k)
September 2021 – February 2022

Teaching CyBOK Cyber-Physical Systems Security through Interactive Simulation
Phil Legg, Jon Stadon, and Ian Johnson
Funded by CyBOK (Cyber Security Body of Knowledge) and NCSC (£5k)
January 2021 – April 2021

2020

Analysis and Visualisation of Ransomware and Malicious Network Propagation
Phil Legg and Jacob Williams
Funded by National Cyber Security Centre (£3k)
May 2020 – September 2020

Cyber Security Assessment for Project CAV Forth (An Autonomous Bus Service From Park & Ride Across Forth Bridge to Edinburgh Park Train & Tram Interchange)
Phil Legg, Kun Wei, Chris Harper and Tony Pipe
Funded by Innovate UK and Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (£30k)
Collaboration with Fusion Processing Ltd.
January 2020 – December 2020

Identifying and Tackling Counter-Terrorism Finances through Investigation Automation (SCOUT: A fully automated enhanced risk assessment engine)
Nic Ryder, Phil Legg and Henry Hillman
Funded by InnovateUK (£81k)
Collaboration with Synalogik Innovations Ltd.
April 2020 – March 2022

2019

Application Penetration Testing
Phil Legg and Alan Mills
Funded by VQ Communications Ltd. (10k)
November 2019 – July 2020

Cyber Security in the Home: Detecting IoT Threats
Phil Legg and Jonathan White
Funded by National Cyber Security Centre (£3k)
May 2019 – September 2019

Interactive Inspection of Adversarial Machine Learning for Collaborative Human-Machine Trust and Security in Data-Driven Military and Defence
Phil Legg
Funded by UWE Partnership PhD scheme in collaboration with Techmodal Ltd. (£70k)
PhD Candidate: Andrew McCarthy
October 2019 – September 2022

Shared Collaborative Project Planning in Secure Federated Learning Environments
Phil Legg
Funded by UWE Partnership PhD scheme in collaboration with Techmodal Ltd. (£70k)
October 2019 – September 2022

Travel Grant: Colloquium for Information Systems Security in Education 2019, Las Vegas, USA
Phil Legg
Funded by National Cyber Security Centre (£2k)
July 2019

2018

HASTE: Human-centric Active-learning for decision Support in Threat Exploration
Phil Legg and Jim Smith
Funded by DSTL Defence and Security Accelerator (£85k)
February 2018 – July 2018

2016

Creating Machine Intelligence with Intelligent Interactive Visualisation
Phil Legg and Jim Smith
Funded by UWE Partnership PhD scheme in collaboration with Montvieux Ltd. (£70k)
October 2016 – September 2019

RicherPicture: Automated network defence through business and threat-led machine learning - Phase 2
Jassim Happa, Phil Legg, Thomas Bashford-Rogers, Ioannis Agrafiotis, Michael Goldsmith and Sadie Creese
Funded by DSTL Centre for Defence Enterprise (£280k)
April 2016 – March 2017

2015

Enhanced personal situational awareness through network and systems visualization
Phil Legg
Funded by UWE Vice-Chancellor's Early Career Researcher Development Awards (£12k)
August 2015 – July 2016

RicherPicture: Automated network defence through business and threat-led machine learning
Phil Legg, Jassim Happa, Ioannis Agrafiotis, Michael Goldsmith and Sadie Creese
Funded by DSTL Centre for Defence Enterprise (£108k)
April 2015 - September 2015

2013

CITD: Corporate Insider Threat Detection
Phil Legg (RA), Jason Nurse, Oliver Buckley, Jassim Happa, Ioannis Agrafiotis, Michael Goldsmith, Sadie Creese
Funded by Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)
Collaboration with Cisco Systems Ltd.
March 2013 - March 2015

2010

Sports Video Visualisation
Phil Legg (RA), David Chung, Matthew Parry, Iwan Griffiths, David Marshall, Min Chen
Funded by Welsh Government
July 2010 - March 2013

2009

TRI-Partite multimedia Object Description
Phil Legg (RA), Mark Hall, Jonathan Quinn, Philip Smart, Christopher Jones
Funded by European Commision
April 2010 - July 2010