Dr Daniel Thomas
Senior Lecturer
Computer and Information Sciences
Personal statement
I deliver research that enables the accurate and ethical measurement of security and cybercrime. By measuring security and cybercrime we can monitor improvement, evaluate interventions and inform regulators. This reveals which techniques work and provides the missing economic incentives to improve security and reduce cybercrime. I work with researchers across disciplines to understand the full picture. More information on my personal page.
I am Director of the University of Strathclyde's Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research.
Prize And Awards
- CDCD Digital Research Prizes Best Impact from a Data-Led Project: Joint Winner
- Recipient
- 7/6/2024
- Longlisted for Teaching Excellence Award
- Recipient
- 2024
Publications
- Client-Centred Cybercrime Training : a Scottish case study
- Sikra Juraj, Renaud Karen V, Thomas Daniel R
- The 2024 Dewald Roode Workshop on Information Systems Security Research (2024)
- Influence policing : domestic digital influence campaigns and algorithmic strategic communications in UK law enforcement and homeland security
- Horgan Shane, Collier Ben, Stewart James, Thomas Daniel R
- The British Journal of Criminology (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae063
- 7th Strathclyde International Perspectives on Cybercrime Summer School
- Sikra Juraj, Renaud Karen, Thomas Daniel R, Aßmuth Andreas, Frank Richard
- (2024)
- More technology? Evaluating the effectiveness of smart thermostats
- Prochacki Pat, Thomas Daniel, Moreno-Rangel Alejandro, Moshfeghi Yashar
- UKIEG Annual Conference 2024 UKIEG Annual Conference 2024, pp. 22-23 (2024)
- Getting bored of cyberwar : exploring the role of low-level cybercrime actors in the Russia-Ukraine conflict
- Vu Anh V, Thomas Daniel R, Collier Ben, Hutchings Alice, Clayton Richard, Anderson Ross
- WWW '24: Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024 WWW '24: The ACM Web Conference 2024, pp. 1596–1607 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3589334.3645401
- Influence government, platform power and the patchwork profile : exploring the appropriation of targeted advertising infrastructures for government behaviour change campaigns
- Collier Ben, Stewart James, Horgan Shane, Thomas Daniel R, Wilson Lydia
- First Monday Vol 29 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v29i2.13579
Research Interests
To deliver research that enables the accurate and ethical measurement of security and cybercrime. By measuring security and cybercrime we can monitor improvement, evaluate interventions and inform regulators. This reveals which techniques work and provides the missing economic incentives to improve security and reduce cybercrime.
Professional Activities
- Distributed Denial of Service attacks
- Speaker
- 23/8/2024
- 7th Strathclyde International Perspectives on Cybercrime Summer School
- Organiser
- 19/8/2024
- Ross Anderson
- Participant
- 22/6/2024
- Scottish Networking Event (SCONE)
- Participant
- 11/6/2024
- University of Strathcluyde Research Integrity and Culture Week
- Participant
- 18/3/2024
- Cyber Security Ecosystem Conference
- Participant
- 12/3/2024
Projects
- Influence policing - mapping the links between preventive policing and new media (SIPR)
- Thomas, Daniel (Principal Investigator)
- 11-Apr-2022 - 30-Jun-2024
- Robustness-as-Traceability: Secure and Legal Calibration Workflows in IoT (RoasT - IoT)
- Nagaraja, Shishir (Principal Investigator) Ahmed, Chuadhry Mujeeb (Co-investigator) Andriychuk, Oles (Co-investigator) Daly, Angela (Co-investigator) Thomas, Daniel (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jun-2023
- SIPR PhD Studentships Proposal:Improving Cybercrime reporting
- Thomas, Daniel (Principal Investigator) Renaud, Karen (Co-investigator) Sikra, Juraj (Researcher)
- 01-Oct-2021 - 30-Sep-2024
- Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2018 | Calder, Matthew
- Thomas, Daniel (Principal Investigator) Windmill, James (Co-investigator) Calder, Matthew (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Nov-2020 - 01-Dec-2024
Contact
Dr
Daniel
Thomas
Senior Lecturer
Computer and Information Sciences
Email: d.thomas@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3524