Security

With the development of the Information society, global enterprises and world governments need for real security. They need help to preemptively protect the availability, confidentiality and integrity of their information systems. This is not a new topic for BITE and we try to bring some innovative solutions to well known problems. Do not forget that our MSc "innovative Technology" involves some of the UK most well known specialists in IT security.

BITE currently develops practical researches on that area.

Probably, one of the most successfull results we have got is in the field of spam filtering. Using Kolmogorov complexity as backbone theory, we have developped a spam filtering technique providing accuracy rates in the range of 95%-97%. Starting with a classical k-nn algorithm to classify junk email, we went through a more powerful training component: Support Vectors Machines. Despite their strong theoretical foundations, both SVM and Kolmogorov theory provide amazing practical results (following V. Vapnik "There is nothing more practical than a good theory !").

Among different things we have done or we are currently working on:

• BITE was a co-organisor with the University of East London of the 1st and 2nd Annual International Conference on Global e-Security (ICGES), which has been held in April 2005 and 2006 at the University of East London's Docklands Campus.>>More

• On February 2005, Dr Farmer has given a presentation on behalf of UK Trade and Industry in Cairo, Egypt to distinguished delegates from Egypt. His presentation was based on Communication and Information Technology and stressed the need of a secure environment for e-business. >>More

• After some start papers about spam filtering (ICDIM07 Conference - Lyon - France, IADIS07 Conference - Algarve - Portugal), we have improved the work with SVM (FLAIRS08 - Miami - USA) and finally a journal version (JIAS08).