George Magklaras, University of Oslo, Norway, point of web presence

I earn my living as Head of the joint IT Unit of the Biotechnology Center of Oslo and the Norwegian Center for Molecular Medicine at the University of Oslo. I also serve as a Senior Systems Engineer at the Research Services/High Performance Computing group (USIT), designing, operating and troubleshooting scientific computing infrastructures that support bioinformatics at the Titan and Abel supercomputers. I am the Chair of the EMBnet Technical Management Project Committee (TMPC). At the same time, I am associated with the Center for Security Communications and Network Research (CSCAN), University of Plymouth, UK.

I received my BSc (Hons) MPhil and PhD degrees from the School of Computing and Mathematics at the University of Plymouth, UK.

My research interests lie in the areas of intrusion detection systems (insider misuse, computer forensics and intrusion specification) , Domain Specific Languages (DSLs), bioinformatics, and high performance computing. My PhD thesis involved the production of a DSL prototype to specify insider misuse attacks. The Insider Threat Prediction Specification Language (ITPSL) is currently under development. For more information, visit my project CSCAN web pages, as well as the following publications list.

Detailed CV

The Insider Threat Prediction and Specification Language, Magklaras G., Furnell S., Ninth International Network Conference - INC2012, 11-12 July, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 2012.

Superclusteroid: a Web tool dedicated to data processing of protein-protein interaction networks, Ropodi a., Sakkos N., Moschopoulos C., Magklaras G., Kossida S., Research Paper, EMBnet.journal, Vol. 17 No. 2, pages 10 to 15, December 2011.

An Insider Misuse Threat Detection and Prediction Language, Magklaras G., PhD Thesis, School of Computing and Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Plymouth, UK, July 2011.

LUARM - An audit engine for insider misuse detection, Magklaras G., Furnell S., Papadaki M. (2011), in Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Digital Forensics & Incident Analysis (WDFIA 2011), to appear in the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF).

Book Chapter: Insider Threat Specification as a Threat Mitigation Technique, Advances in Information Security, Vol 49: Title: Insider Threats in Cyber Security, Probst, Christian W.; Hunker, Jeffrey; Gollmann, Dieter (Eds.) 2010, XII, 244 p. 40 illus., 20 in color., ISBN 978-1-4419-7132-6, Hardcover, Springer 2010.

High Throughput Sequencing and the IT architecture Part 1:Volume Dimensioning and Filesystems, Technical Note, Magklaras G., EMBnet news periodical, Volume 15 (Issue 5, pages 51 to 55), March 2010.

Book Chapter:"Physiological Substrates of PKA and PKG", Ruppelt A., Oberprieler N.G., Magklaras G., and Tasken K., Handbook of Cellular Signalling (Eds Ralph Bradshaw and Edward Dennis), Academic Press/Elsevier (2009), ISBN-10: 0-12-374145-9

iRefIndex: A consolidated protein interaction database with provenance, Razick S., Magklaras G., Donaldson I.(2008),BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:405 (30 September 2008)

Towards an Insider Threat Prediction Specification Language, Magklaras G., Furnell S., Brooke P. (2006), Information Management & Computer Security, vol. 14, no. 4, pp361-381.Author's copy downloadable here

Secure Web Browsing: How to safely surf the web., Magklaras G., EMBnet news periodical, Volume 11 (Issue 4, pages 9 to 13) and Volume 12 (issue 1, pages 17-19), December 2005 and January 2006.

A Preliminary Model of End User Sophistication for Insider Threat Prediction in IT Systems,Magklaras G., Furnell S., Computers & Security, Volume 24, Issue 5, August 2005, Pages 371-380. Author's copy downloadable here

An architecture for Insider Misuse Threat Prediction in IT systems, Magklaras G., Master of Philosophy thesis (MPhil), School of Computing, Communications and Electronics, University of Plymouth, UK, January 2005.

The Insider Misuse Threat Survey: Investigating IT misuse from legitimate users, Magklaras G., Furnell S, 2004 International Information Warfare Conference, Perth, Australia, 2004.

Insider Threat Prediction Tool: Evaluating the probability of IT misuse, Magklaras G., Furnell S., Computers & Security, vol. 21, no. 1, pp62-73, 2002.

Security Vulnerabilities and System Intrusions - The need for Automatic Response Frameworks, Papadaki M., Magklaras G., Furnell S., Alayed A., Proceedings of the IFIP TC11 WG11.1/WG11.2 Eigth Annual Working Conference on Advances in Information Security Management & Small Systems Security, Pages: 87 - 98, Year of Publication: 2001

A Generic Taxonomy for Intrusion Specification and Response, Furnell S., Magklaras G., Papadaki M., Dowland P., Proceedings of Euromedia 2001, Valencia, Spain, 18-20 April, 2001.

Insider Threat Specification: Techniques for system level detection and prediction of insider threats, talk at the University of Oslo Academic Forum on Security, May 16th, 2012.

The Galaxy workflow, MRS for Sysadmins, The NGS IT notes, Invited talks given at the International Workshops on Bioinformatics - 2012, Center of Genomic Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

LUARM - An audit engine for insider misuse detection, Invited talk given at the Digital Forensics & Incident Analysis WDFIA 2011, Kingston UK, July 2011.

LUARM and ITPSL: Sensing and specifying insider threats, Invited talk given at the Insider threats: Strategies for Prevention, Mitigation and Response seminar, Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics, August 2010.

Biological Sequence Mining:A case with MRS and EMBOSS, Invited talk/course given at the Center for Genomic Sciences, UNAM, March 2010.

Data storage considerations for HTS platforms, Invited talk given at the EMBRACE next generation sequencing workshop in Rome, November 2009.

Systematizing Insider Threat Mitigation, Invited talk given at the Insider threat Schloss Dagstuhl seminar, Leibniz Center for Informatics, July 2008.

Computer intrusions and insider misuse, Invited talk given at the British Computer Society South West Branch, 1-3 April 2001.

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E-mail:
   georgios #at# biotek.uio.no
Office address:
    The Biotechnology Center of Oslo, University of Oslo
    Floors 4 and 5, House 2, Forskingsparken
    Gaustadalleen 21 0349 Oslo, Norway
Telephone/Fax
    0047 22840535/0047 22840501