Dr Daniel Thomas
Senior Lecturer
Computer and Information Sciences
Personal statement
I deliver research that enables the accurate and ethical measurement of security and cybercrime. By measuring security and cybercrime we can monitor improvement, evaluate interventions and inform regulators. This reveals which techniques work and provides the missing economic incentives to improve security and reduce cybercrime. I work with researchers across disciplines to understand the full picture. More information on my personal page.
I am Director of the University of Strathclyde's Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research.
Prize And Awards
- CDCD Digital Research Prizes Best Impact from a Data-Led Project: Joint Winner
- Recipient
- 7/6/2024
- Longlisted for Teaching Excellence Award
- Recipient
- 2024
Publications
- Blockchain framework for enhancing employment integrity process to curb ghost worker fraud
- Bello Musa Ibrahim, Thomas Daniel R
- NCSC ACE-CSR Conference 2025 (2025)
- Legal risks faced by security & measurement researchers
- Thomas Daniel R, Park Sunoo
- NCSC ACE-CSR Conference 2025 (2025)
- Assessing the aftermath : the effects of a global takedown against DDoS-for-hire services
- Vu Anh V, Collier Ben, Thomas Daniel R, Kristoff John, Clayton Richard, Hutchings Alice
- 34th USENIX Security Symposium (2024)
- Investigating what promotes and deters Scottish cybercrime reporting
- Sikra Juraj, Renaud Karen V, Thomas Daniel R
- Journal of Economic Criminology Vol 6 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconc.2024.100103
- The age of DDoScovery : an empirical comparison of industry and academic DDoS assessments
- Hiesgen Raphael, Nawrocki Marcin, Barcellos Marinho, Kopp Daniel, Hohlfeld Oliver, Chan Echo, Dobbins Roland, Doerr Christian, Thomas Daniel R, Rossow Christian, Jonker Mattijs, Mok Ricky, Luo Xiapu, Kristoff John, Schmidt Thomas C, Wählisch Matthias, claffy kc
- Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ’24) Internet Measurement Conference, pp. 259-279 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3646547.3688451
- A data-driven evaluation of the current security state of Android devices
- Leierzopf Ernst, Mayrhofer René, Roland Michael, Studier Wolfgang, Dean Lawrence, Seiffert Martin, Putz Florentin, Becker Lucas, Thomas Daniel R
- 2024 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) 2024 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), pp. 1-9 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/cns62487.2024.10735682
Research Interests
To deliver research that enables the accurate and ethical measurement of security and cybercrime. By measuring security and cybercrime we can monitor improvement, evaluate interventions and inform regulators. This reveals which techniques work and provides the missing economic incentives to improve security and reduce cybercrime.
Professional Activities
- Jessica Man
- Host
- 2/4/2025
- Influence Government
- Speaker
- 27/3/2025
- RI&C Week: Can we measure research cultures responsibly?
- Participant
- 11/3/2025
- Alexandra Ba-Tin
- Host
- 5/3/2025
- Panel A - Cyber Security in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Speaker
- 4/2/2025
- NCSC ACE-CSR Conference 2025
- Speaker
- 9/1/2025
Projects
- Influence policing - mapping the links between preventive policing and new media (SIPR)
- Thomas, Daniel (Principal Investigator)
- 11-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2025
- Robustness-as-Traceability: Secure and Legal Calibration Workflows in IoT (RoasT - IoT)
- Nagaraja, Shishir (Principal Investigator) Ahmed, Chuadhry Mujeeb (Co-investigator) Andriychuk, Oles (Co-investigator) Daly, Angela (Co-investigator) Thomas, Daniel (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2023
- SIPR PhD Studentships Proposal:Improving Cybercrime reporting
- Thomas, Daniel (Principal Investigator) Renaud, Karen (Co-investigator) Sikra, Juraj (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2024
- Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2018 | Calder, Matthew
- Thomas, Daniel (Principal Investigator) Windmill, James (Co-investigator) Calder, Matthew (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2024
Contact
Dr
Daniel
Thomas
Senior Lecturer
Computer and Information Sciences
Email: d.thomas@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3524