Examples of current student research projects
Curious about the kinds of research projects undertaken by our current students? Scared that when your time comes to complete a project, it might prove too much for you? Rest assured, other students have faced similar fears and gone on to complete insightful and informative projects such as:
- Forensic Task Automation Platform: an innovative solution for gathering valuable forensic information from multiple network service systems and correlating this data to specific events.
- Use of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) in areas such as social networking.
- Redefining the Investigative Process: looking at legalities that may become obstacles to the investigation process.
- Live Memory Forensics of Instant Messaging Conversations: determining the amount of information retrievable from a computer system’s volatile Random Access Memory (RAM) pertaining to instant messaging records.
- Forensic Analysis of Private Browsing Mechanisms: tracing internet activities where a specific browser stores the information.
- Database Log Forensics: reviewing available logs and transaction trails for forensic analysis.
- Using search engines as an internet investigative tool.
- Forensic analysis of car electronic systems.
- The emergence of forensic genetic genealogy compared with traditional forensic DNA identification.
Students in the Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics option of our BTech degree program also conduct hands-on research through their research graduation projects. Their research is applied and addresses pressing challenges in digital forensics and cybersecurity. Current research projects include:
- Detection and analysis of keyboard interceptor code.
- File system interceptor forensics.
- Anti-debug forensics.
- Exploring the relationship between compliance frameworks and cyber threat detection in critical infrastructure.
- Evaluating the detection and forensic completeness of open-source endpoint detection tools.
- Security and forensic analysis of IoT protocol misconfiguration in message queuing telemetry transport.
- An examination of contemporary AI browser agents’ capability to bypass human authentication mechanisms.
- Testing the efficacy of Google Messages in detecting scam messages.