USW Cybersecurity Academics receive Google Award for Advancing Research on Cloud-based Technologies for Teaching IoT Security

The research on the Internet of Things (loT) security at the University of South Wales, recently received support through Dr. Ahmed Elmesiry, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Cyber ​​Security, who successfully obtained a generous award from Google, that will contribute to focusing the research on cloud-based technologies for teaching Internet of things security.

This project involves a team led by Dr. Ahmed Elmesiry and Prof. Eric Llewellyn, deputy head of school computing, engineering, and science. The project aims to solve problems associated with IoT security and virtualization in the cloud. During the next 12 months, the academic team will engage in research and development activities to carry out cutting-edge technology on Google's cloud platform.

"I am very excited and delighted that Google is supporting our research," said Dr. Elmesiry. “Google has always been very good at supporting innovative research. I hope to be able to do more work of this kind, and thus help improve people's daily lives, "he added.

According to Dr. Elmesiry, this award will help in covering research resources, services, tools, and facilities previously agreed upon and offered by the company. Dr. Elmesiry also added "we will be able to use a large amount of Google resources that are only available to researchers at this company, such as large computing clusters that can help us solve problems quickly since their storage is 10 TB or more, billion operations per seconds, SQL and NoSQL database servers, new programming paradigms, etc. In addition, we will have direct interaction with world-class researchers who are working on the same topic. This award is a timely and necessary help to take our research to the next level." he said.

The students of the University of South Wales will also benefit from this award, according to Dr. Elmesiry. "We will offer USW students a unique opportunity to learn the latest technologies developed by Google and to work with Google platforms in the context of their projects, seminars, and theses."

This research project will also help in teaching IoT security and forensic sciences on Google's cloud infrastructure. Specifically, it will create an infrastructure running on top of Google's cloud platform for collaborative IoT security research which is essential when deploying distributed services around the world and investigating different components of the IoT ecosystem