• A Pilot Study in Cyber Security Education Using CyberAIMs: A Simulation-Based Experiment 

      Zoto, Erjon; Kowalski, Stewart James; Frantz, Christopher Konstantin; Lopez Rojas, Edgar Alonso; Katt, Basel (Journal article, 2018)
      We hardly pass any day without hearing of a new cyber attack. The recent ever-increasing occurrence of such attacks has given to researchers, practitioners and others an opportunity to raise awareness and train staff from ...
    • A Socio-technical Systems Approach to Design and Support Systems Thinking in Cybersecurity and Risk Management Education 

      Zoto, Erjon; Kianpour, Mazaher; Kowalski, Stewart James; Lopez Rojas, Edgar Alonso (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Cybersecurity decisions are made across a range of social, technical, economic, regulatory and political domains. There is a gap between what companies and institutions plan to do while developing their internal IS-related ...
    • Advantages of the PaySim Simulator for Improving Financial Fraud Controls 

      Lopez Rojas, Edgar Alonso; Barneaud, Camille (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Financial transactions lay up the foundation of modern society. Unfortunately, illicit abuse of the financial system is pervasive. Fraud controls aim to detect these suspicious activities, but they require deep analysis ...
    • Analysis of fraud controls using the PaySim financial simulator 

      Lopez Rojas, Edgar Alonso; Axelsson, Stefan; Baca, Dejan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Fraud controls for financial transactions are needed and required by law enforcement agencies to flag suspicious criminal activity. These controls however require deeper analysis of the effectiveness and the negative impact ...
    • CyberAIMs: A tool for teaching adversarial and systems thinking 

      Zoto, Erjon; Kowalski, Stewart James; Katt, Basel; Frantz, Christopher; Lopez Rojas, Edgar Alonso (Chapter, 2018)
      CyberAIMs stands for Cyber Agents’ Interactive Modeling and Simulation. We designed this tool in order to use it as an educational tool to teach Master students in a Cyber security course. This paper aims to describe the ...
    • On the GDPR introduction in EU and its impact on financial fraud research 

      Lopez Rojas, Edgar Alonso; Gultemen, Dincer; Zoto, Erjon (Chapter, 2018)
      With the introduction of GDPR in the European Union (EU) in May 2018, personal data contained within financial records will become even more restricted to researchers due to the strict organisations’ internal policies. ...
    • Using a socio-technical systems approach to design and support systems thinking in cyber security education 

      Zoto, Erjon; Kowalski, Stewart James; Lopez Rojas, Edgar Alonso; Kianpour, Mazaher (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Information security (IS) has been categorized as protecting the confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication and accountability of information. There is a gap between what companies and institutions plan to ...