Staff profile

Igor Kotsiuba is Assistant Professor in Finance (Financial Technology and Security) at  Durham University Business School, focused on Security of Financial Services and Technology, including participation in EU Horizon Research and Innovation and UK Cybersecurity Clusters, collaboration with Fintech industry and delivering Executive Education modules on Cybersecurity of Financial Critical Infrastructure and Cyber Risk dimension. Since his PhD in IT, Dr Kotsiuba worked for over decade in industry and Academia and founded a a digital forensics lab in Ukraine. Elected in 2018 as Head of the Cybersecurity Work Group of the American Chamber of Commerce and Honorary Chairman of Cybersecurity Cluster, acting as an Of Counsel for government and industry managed more than 10 transnational cybersecurity R&I projects on National Critical Infrastructure, Dynamic Risk Assessment.

• Fintech and Security
• Cybersecurity Risk Management
• Digital Forensic Readiness of Critical Infrastructure
• Cybersecurity of Energy Systems and Infrastructure
• Cybersecurity for financial firms and emerging technologies

• 2022: Observer in Civil Security Cluster 3 Committee European Commission :
• 2021: Top 21 Influencer in Cybersecurity to follow :
• 2020: Presidential award for young scientists:

Chapter in book

• Nesterov, M., Kotsiuba, I., Skarga-Bandurova, I., & Biloborodova, T. Database Incident Response and Forensic Preparation Through the Performance Features. In Computational Intelligence and Mathematics for Tackling Complex Problems 3. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74970-5_22
• Kelli, V., Triantafyllou, A., Radoglou-Grammatikis, P., Lagkas, T., Vitsas, V., Fouliras, P., Kotsiuba, I., & Sarigiannidis, P. (2024). Achieving Security and Privacy in NG-IoT Using Blockchain Techniques. In R. C. Sofia, & J. Soldatos (Eds.), Shaping the Future of IoT with Edge Intelligence: How Edge Computing Enables the Next Generation of IoT Applications (251-265). River Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781032632407-15
• Biloborodova, T., Skarga-Bandurova, I., Kotsiuba, I., & Skarha-Bandurov, I. (2021). Reputation-Aware Data Fusion for Quantifying Hand Tremor Severity Form Interaction with a Smartphone. . IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/shti210297
• Skarga-Bandurova, I., & Kotsiuba, I. (2020). Cyber Security and Resilience of Smart Grid Infrastructure in the Arctic. In B. D. Trump, K. Hossain, & I. Linkov (Eds.), Volume 58: Cybersecurity and Resilience in the Arctic (245-264). https://doi.org/10.3233/NICSP200051

Conference Paper

• Siganos, M., Radoglou-Grammatikis, P., Kotsiuba, I., Markakis, E., Moscholios, I., Goudos, S., & Sarigiannidis, P. (2023, August). Explainable AI-based Intrusion Detection in the Internet of Things. Presented at ARES 2023: The 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Benevento, Italy
• Skarga-Bandurova, I., Kotsiuba, I., & Biloborodova, T. (2022, December). Cyber Security of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure: Open Issues and Recommendations. Paper presented at 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Osaka, Japan
• Kotsiuba, I., Skarga-Bandurova, I., Giannakoulias, A., Chaikin, M., & Jevremovic, A. (2019, December). Technique for Finding and Investigating the Strongest Combinations of Cyberattacks on Smart Grid Infrastructure. Paper presented at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Kotsiuba, I., Skarga-Bandurova, I., Giannakoulias, A., & Bulda, O. (2019, December). Basic Forensic Procedures for Cyber Crime Investigation in Smart Grid Networks. Paper presented at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Skarga-Bandurova, I., Nesterov, M., Biloborodova, T., Krivoulya, G., Kotsiuba, I., & Biloborodov, O. (2019, June). Data Fusion Technique to Predicting Database Performance Issues. Paper presented at 2019 10th International Conference on Dependable Systems, Services and Technologies (DESSERT), Leeds, United Kingdom
• Kotsiuba, I., Nesterov, M., Yanovich, Y., Skarga-Bandurova, I., Biloborodova, T., & Zhygulin, V. (2018, December). Multi-Database Monitoring Tool for the E-Health Services. Paper presented at 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Seattle, WA, USA
• Kotsiuba, I., Velvkzhanin, A., Yanovich, Y., Bandurova, I. S., Dyachenko, Y., & Zhygulin, V. (2018, October). Decentralized e-Health Architecture for Boosting Healthcare Analytics. Paper presented at 2018 Second World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability (WorldS4), London
• Skarga-Bandurova, I., Derkach, M., & Kotsiuba, I. (2018, September). The Information Service for Delivering Arrival Public Transport Prediction. Paper presented at 2018 IEEE 4th International Symposium on Wireless Systems within the International Conferences on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems (IDAACS-SWS), Lviv

Journal Article

• Skarga-Bandurova, I., Kotsiuba, I., & Velasco, E. R. (in press). Cyber Hygiene Maturity Assessment Framework for Smart Grid Scenarios. Frontiers in Computer Science, 3, https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2021.614337

Presentation

• Kotsiuba, I. (2023, December). Empirical study of new metrics for the internet route hijack risk assessment. Presented at CEUR Workshop Proceedings
• Kotsiuba, I. (2016, February). Assessment of insider attack with learning statistics methods. Presented at ICISSP 2016 - 2nd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, Doctoral Consortium
• Shalaginov, A., Kotsiuba, I., & Iqbal, A. (2019, December). Cybercrime Investigations in the Era of Smart Applications: Way Forward Through Big Data. Paper presented at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Derkach, M., Lysak, V., Skarga-Bandurova, I., & Kotsiuba, I. (2019, September). Parking Guide Service for Large Urban Areas. Paper presented at 2019 10th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS), Metz, France
• Boltov, Y., Skarga-Bandurova, I., Kotsiuba, I., Hrushka, M., Krivoulya, G., & Siriak, R. (2019, June). Performance Evaluation of Real-Time System for Vision-Based Navigation of Small Autonomous Mobile Robots. Paper presented at 2019 10th International Conference on Dependable Systems, Services and Technologies (DESSERT), Leeds, United Kingdom
• Kotsiuba, I., Velykzhanin, A., Biloborodov, O., Skarga-Bandurova, I., Biloborodova, T., Yanovich, Y., & Zhygulin, V. (2018, December). Blockchain Evolution: from Bitcoin to Forensic in Smart Grids. Paper presented at 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Seattle, WA, USA