Researcher

Dr Masood Mansoori

Biography

Masood completed his PhD in Engineering from Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) focusing on browser-based geolocation attacks and how users’ systems, browsers and associated attributes contribute to their exposure to targeted attacks. His area of research is primarily intrusion detection and deception systems and, honeypots with several publications in the field. He has designed and developed two client honeypots (i.e. YALIH and miniC)...view more

Masood completed his PhD in Engineering from Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) focusing on browser-based geolocation attacks and how users’ systems, browsers and associated attributes contribute to their exposure to targeted attacks. His area of research is primarily intrusion detection and deception systems and, honeypots with several publications in the field. He has designed and developed two client honeypots (i.e. YALIH and miniC) and has contributed to many other open-source honeypot projects (e.g. Cowrie Honeypot) through supervision of students’ projects.

Masood has extensive experience in curriculum design, course coordination and teaching roles in both undergraduate and graduate-level courses for a wide range of topics including but not limited to cybersecurity (offensive and defensive) and digital forensics, risk management, data communication and networking, operating systems, databases, and programming languages.


My Qualifications

  • PhD Graduate of School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), 2017New Zealand
  • Master of Computer Science, University Malaya, 2010Malaysia
  • Bachelor of Computer Science and Information Technology, Eastern Mediterranean University, 2005, Cyprus

My Awards

  • Best Student Paper Award in Australian Information Security Conference (ACSW - AISC), January 29 - February 1, 2013, Adelaide, Australia
  • Best Student Paper Award in Australian Information Security Conference (ACSW - AISC), 20 – 23 January 2014, Auckland, New Zealand
  • Victoria University of Wellington Scholarship, 2013
  • The Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia, CORE scholarship (2015)
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Location

D236, UNSW Canberra, Reid Campus

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