Virginia N. L. Franqueira Email & Phone Number

Canterbury, Gb

Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

Core member of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS): https://cyber.kent.ac.uk/Main role:Director of Kent's ACE-CSE (Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education) - Gold award 2023-2029.

Canterbury, United Kingdom

Member of the Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS): https://cyber.kent.ac.uk/Also joining the recently created Institute of Advanced Studies in Cyber Security and Conflict (SoCyETAL). SoCyETAL will have a dedicated physical space on campus allowing researchers from different schools and disciplines to work together.https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/vf200/

Responsible for setting up overall strategy, for overseeing the running of the ACE-CSE, for external communication and representation of the ACE-CSE with other organisations, and overseen quality and EDI initiatives.

Derby, United Kingdom

Programme leader for:- BSc Digital Forensics & Security (former BSc Computer Forensic Investigation)- BSc Cyber Security- MSc Digital Forensics & Computer Security- MSc Cyber Securityhttp://www.derby.ac.uk/staff/virginia-franqueira/http://computing.derby.ac.uk/c/dr-virginia-n-l-franqueira/

Preston, United Kingdom

Teaching:- Masters level * Advanced Topics in IT Security * Digital Forensic Investiation * Information Security Management * Trends in Cybercrime (pending approval)- Undergraduate level * Research Topics in Computing - research methods * Investigating Hardware & Operating SystemsSupervision: * Master students * part of supervisory team of 3 PhD: two related to Digital Forensics and one related to fraud in mCommercePersonal webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/virginiafranqueira/

United Kingdom

Consultancy in Informaton Security research. I have been involved, as a contractor, with the EU project SECONOMICS. Had also contracts delivering inventories and categorization of information sources useful for security risk management: from cybersecurity authoritative sources such as NIST, ENISA, CERT, SANS to security databases, vendors bulletins and advisories, security intelligence mailing lists and blogs, news channels. Having access to first hand security information has become a competitive advantage, therefore, clients are more and more interested in getting to know the content of sources specialized in security vulnerabilities and threats, and in structuring them.

Enschede Area, Netherlands

Researcher of the VRIEND project. This project addressed security risks in decentralized enterprise networks, i.e., extended enterprises. One threat which emerges in such context is the External Insider Threat. I investigated what distinguishes "external insiders" from insiders and outsiders, and how they can be systematically identified and the threat they pose can be reduced.During this period I also worked on secure engineering from the perspective of delivering methods and techniques to embed security risk assessment and management into the development life cycle, more specifically into Requirements Engineering.Security decision making was also an interest I pursued in this period. Real Options thinking was used as a staging & learning framework to tune security investment decisions taking into account trade-offs involved with each alternative under evaluation.

Enschede Area, Netherlands

During my Ph.D., I was part of the IPID project. I investigated how to assess and mitigate the risk of multi-step attacks in computer networks. My thesis proposed a preventive approach which used networks described on a Mobile Ambients-based formalism. I used Optimization techniques to find possible multi-step attacks.Along my Ph.D. I also studied security metrics and used the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) to estimate impact and likelihood of risks based on vulnerabilities (i.e., CVEs) detected in open source and COTS (Commercial-Of-The-Shelf) components.

Vitória Area, Brazil

Initially I was part of the Testing Department. I worked as a System Test Lead on a project outsourced from Xerox Corporation. The aim of the project was to test the software that controlled 61xx printers and report back to the project leaders in the US. Later I moved to Development Department, and performed activities as a Business Proposal Analyst and Software Development Lead of projects developed in-house.

Rochester, New York Area

On-the-job training on performance, reliability and softwarefunctionalities testing for DocuPrint 75 printers.

Ph.D. (Full-Time), Computer Science, Information Security

My Ph.D. thesis entitled "Finding Multi-step Attacks in Computer Networks using Heuristic Search and Mobile Ambients" can be found.

M.Sc. (Part-Time), Computer Science, Combinatorial Optimization

My master thesis can be found at: http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~franqueirav/

B.Sc. (Full-Time), Computer Science

Education record

Education record