Paradigms on Technology Development for Security Practitioners

這本開放存取的書籍由來自研究、學術界、執法機構、民防和其他第一線應變人員、從業人員、公私機構和行業的豐富貢獻者共同撰寫，旨在應對全球安全領域中一些最當代的挑戰。作者們涵蓋的主題包括關鍵基礎設施（CI）的保護、嚴重和有組織犯罪、反（網絡）恐怖主義、邊境管理、網絡犯罪、網絡安全、災害和危機管理、大數據分析、人工智能的應用以及尖端技術實施的法律和倫理問題。該書受益於超過35個歐盟安全領域的研究行動和經驗教訓。該書不僅涉及與主題相關的理論敘述，還確定了當前的挑戰和新興的安全威脅，提供了在安全領域內的操作能力差距分析、實際應用解決方案、方法論和案例研究。

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Babak Akhgar is Professor of Informatics, co-founder and Director of CENTRIC (Centre of excellence in terrorism, resilience, intelligence and organized crime research) at Sheffield Hallam University and Fellow of the British Computer Society. Prof Akhgar graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in Software Engineering. Afterwards he gained considerable commercial experience as a Strategy Analyst and Methodology Director for several companies. He consolidated this experience by obtaining a Masters degree (with distinction) in Information Systems in Management and a PhD in Strategic Information Systems from Sheffield Hallam University. He has more than 140 publications in international journals and conferences on SIS with specific focus on knowledge management (KM) within security domain. He has successfully supervised 12 PhD students. He is member of editorial boards of a number of international Journals, Chair and programme committee member of several international conferences. He has extensive and hands on experience in development, management and execution of Intelligence Management projects in large international security initiatives (e.g. Application of social media in crisis management, intelligence based combating of terrorism and organised crime, Gun crime, cyber security, Big Data and cross cultural ideology polarisation) with multi-million Euros budgets. In addition to this he is currently the technical lead of 3 EU Security projects; "Courage" on Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism and "Athena project" on Application of social media and mobile devices in crisis management and "Tensor" on identification of terrorist generated content. Prof Akhgar is founder of CENTRIC OSINT Hub, which provides law enforcement agencies with state of art capabilities to conduct wide range of open source based investigation from Organised Crime network to Counter Terrorism. CENTRIC OSINT HUB is used by wide range of LEAs in UK. He has co-edited a book on Intelligence management (Knowledge Driven frameworks for combating Terrorism and Organised crime). His recent books are titled Strategic Intelligence Management (National Security Imperatives and Information and Communications Technologies) Emerging Trends in ICT Security, Application of Big Data for National Security and Application of OSINT for investigation. Prof Akhgar was Trustee of Police National Legal Database (PNLD) for 2 years. In 2016 Prof Akhgar was chairman of Police Strategy forum. Prof Akhgar is member of academic advisory board of SAS UK, member of UN Safer cities technology task force, Board member of European Organisation for Security (EOS) and member of Europol external advisory board on data protection.

Dimitrios Kavallieros is a senior research associate and project manager at MultiMoDal Data Fusion and Analytics Group (M4D) of the Multimedia Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Laboratory (MKLab) which is part of the Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI) of the Center of Research and Technology, Hellas (CERTH, Greece) focusing on cybersecurity research and innovation technologies. He holds an MSc in Ethical Hacking and Computer Security from the University of Abertay. He is currently PhD candidate at University of Peloponnese. He has edited 2 books and more than 30 articles in conference proceedings, journals and book chapters with specific focus in cybersecurity, cyberterrorism and digital forensics. He has participated in several European funded research projects assuming different roles such as coordinator, project manager, technical manager, scientific leader mainly focused on Cybersecurity, Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism, IoT & Cloud Security/Forensics, Digital Forensics and Blockchain technology topics.

Stefanos Vrochidis received the Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, the MSc degree in Radio Frequency Communication Systems from University of Southampton and the PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from Queen Mary University of London. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher (Grade C) with the Information Technologies Institute of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (ITI-CERTH) and the Head of the Multimodal Data Fusion and Analytics (M4D) Group. His research interests include multimedia understanding and retrieval, multimodal fusion, computer vision, multimodal analytics, artificial intelligence, as well as industrial, media & arts, environmental and security applications. Dr. Vrochidis has participated in more than 80 European and National projects and has been member of the organization team of several conferences and workshops. He has edited 3 books and authored more than 300 related scientific journal, conference and book chapter publications. He has served as a reviewer in several international Journals and as Technical program committee in well reputed conferences and workshops.

Ilias Gkotsis, Senior Project Manager, holds a Dipl.-Ing. in Mechanical and Aeronautics Engineering from University of Patras and an MSc in Energy Production and Management from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He has over 10 years of experience in the energy, transportation, and security sector, through the implementation of R&D projects, technical studies, and educational courses. His R&D topics of interest include critical infrastructure protection and resilience, protection of public spaces, civil protection, crisis management, UAS (being also a certified pilot by HCAA/EASA) and counter-UAS solutions, traffic modelling and transport network management, energy, and environmental impacts. Over the last years, he is heavily involved (Coordinator, WP/Task leader, Dissemination leader, Security Advisory Board, Use case manager, etc.) in EU and Nationally Funded R&D projects (HEU, H2020, FP7, DG ECHO, CIPS, ISF, NSRF, etc.), in various activities such as project management, analysis of end user requirements, technical specifications definition, identification of KPIs, stakeholder engagement, system evaluation and demonstration, exercises organization and implementation, lessons learned and best practices definition and capitalization. Currently he is a project manager in SATWAYS Ltd (company developing Security and Public Safety solutions).

Nikolai Stoianov, assoc. prof. (male), Deputy Director of Bulgarian Defence Institute. He is well experienced in development of information systems with different designation, many of which are already brought into use in the Bulgarian Army. He is specialized in the field of Information Security and as such is involved in the European Projects on the FP7 "INDECT", "HOMER". H2020 projects "GaP", "ROBORDER", "CAMELOT", "FOLDOUT", "MEDEA", EDA projects "SPIDER", "PYTHIA", and NATO SPS project "CyRADARS". He is member of external advisory group of FP7 project "PANOPTESEC". Dr. Nikolai Stoianov is a NATO STO Board member, Bulgarian national representative in NATO STO IST Panel, National EDA S&T Director, and he is member of "Future concepts and tools for Cyber Defence", "Cyber Defence Situational Awareness", "Defence Implications of Cloud Computing at Tactical Edge", "Cyber Attack Detection, Forensics and Attribution for Assessment of Mission Impact", "Visual Analytics (Cyber Security)", "Intelligent Autonomous Agents for Cyber Defence and Resilience", and Research Lecture Series Director on "Cyber Security Science and Engineering", EDA AHWR Cyber security. Dr.Stoianov has more than 80 published paper in national and international scientific conferences and journal, he is author and co-author of four books in field of information security. The project experience of Dr.Stoianov consists of: Project coordinator of NATO SPS project "CyRADARS" (2017-2020). WP leader of FP7 HOMER project (2013-2016); WP leader of EDA projects SPIDER (2016-2018), PYTHIA (2018-2020), Task leader in H2020 project ROBORDER (2017-2020), External Advisory Board member of FP7 Project PANOPTESEC (2013-2016); Lecture series director for NATO STO research lecture series on "Cyber Security Science and Engineering" (2016-2019).

Dimitris Diagourtas has 30 years working experience in private, academic and public sectors. He received in 1991 his B.Sc. in Physics from National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and since 1992 he was working as a researcher in the Seismological Laboratory of University of Athens for 14 years involved in research activities related mainly to engineering seismology, design and development of real time acquisition systems, earthquake early warning, earthquake risk assessment. He participated in numerous EU funded research projects in the frame of (EVG1, ENV4, EV5V, EV4C, EPOCH, JOUG, IST, MAST III, Growth, Craft, EESD, FP6 and FP7) and he is co-author of more than 45 papers in International Journals and Conferences. He worked for 2 years (2002-2004) in the General Secretariat for Research & Technology of the Ministry of Development as Special Consultant for European Space Agency (ESA) bilateral relationship, member of the team that designed the accession of Greece to ESA Convention, member of the High level Committee for the definition of Hellenic National Space Policy, National representation at ESA PBEO and JCB bodies. In 2006 he co-founded Satways Ltd. and since then he is acting as Managing Director, with involvement in both commercial projects delivery as well as EU (FP7, H2020, HEU) and National (GSRT) funded research activities focused in the domains of Critical Infrastructure Resilience, First Responders Collaborative response, Natural Hazards early warning and crisis management and real time sensors systems development in seismoacoustics. In 2021 he co-founded Astrial GmbH with offices in Adlershof - Berlin in Germany and he is acting as Chief Business Development.

巴巴克·阿赫加爾（Babak Akhgar）是謝菲爾德哈勒姆大學（Sheffield Hallam University）的資訊學教授，CENTRIC（恐怖主義、恢復力、情報和組織犯罪研究卓越中心）的聯合創始人和主任，並且是英國計算機學會的會士。阿赫加爾教授在謝菲爾德哈勒姆大學獲得軟體工程學學位後，擔任多家公司的策略分析師和方法論總監，積累了豐富的商業經驗。他在謝菲爾德哈勒姆大學獲得了管理信息系統碩士學位（成績優異）和戰略信息系統博士學位，並在國際期刊和會議上發表了140多篇關於安全領域知識管理的論文。他成功指導了12名博士生。他是多個國際期刊的編輯委員會成員，也是多個國際會議的主席和計劃委員會成員。他在大型國際安全項目（例如社交媒體在危機管理中的應用、基於情報的恐怖主義和組織犯罪打擊、槍支犯罪、網絡安全、大數據和跨文化意識形態極化）的開發、管理和執行方面擁有豐富的實踐經驗，這些項目的預算達到數百萬歐元。此外，他目前還是3個歐盟安全項目的技術負責人，分別是關於網絡犯罪和網絡恐怖主義的“Courage”項目，關於社交媒體和移動設備在危機管理中的應用的“Athena”項目，以及關於恐怖分子生成內容識別的“Tensor”項目。阿赫加爾教授是CENTRIC OSINT Hub的創始人，該中心為執法機構提供了從組織犯罪網絡到反恐的各種基於開源的調查能力。CENTRIC OSINT HUB被英國的廣泛範圍的執法機構使用。他共同編輯了一本關於情報管理的書籍（以知識驅動的框架打擊恐怖主義和組織犯罪）。他最近的著作包括《戰略情報管理（國家安全要求和信息通信技術）》、《ICT安全的新趨勢》、《應用大數據進行國家安全》和《應用OSINT進行調查》。阿赫加爾教授曾擔任英國警察國家法律數據庫（PNLD）的受托人2年。2016年，阿赫加爾教授擔任了警察戰略論壇的主席。阿赫加爾教授是SAS UK學術顧問委員會成員，聯合國安全城市技術工作組成員，歐洲安全組織（EOS）董事會成員，以及歐洲刑警組織（Europol）數據保護外部顧問委員會成員。

迪米特里奧斯·卡瓦利埃羅斯（Dimitrios Kavallieros）是希臘研究和技術中心（CERTH）的多模態數據融合和分析小組（M4D）的高級研究助理和項目經理，該小組隸屬於多媒體知識和社交媒體分析實驗室（MKLab）的資訊和遠程通信研究所（ITI），專注於網絡安全研究和創新技術。他擁有阿伯泰大學（University of Abertay）的道德黑客和計算機安全碩士學位，目前是帕羅那斯大學（University of Peloponnese）的博士候選人。他編輯了2本書，並在會議論文集、期刊和專書章節中發表了30多篇文章，重點關注網絡安全、網絡恐怖主義和數字取證。他參與了多個歐洲資助的研究項目，擔任協調員、項目經理、技術經理、科學領導者等不同角色，主要集中在網絡安全、網絡犯罪和網絡恐怖主義、物聯網和雲安全/取證、數字取證和區塊鏈技術等主題。