Dr Christopher Laing
University Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering and Environment
Dr Christopher Laing is the Project Director of Northumbria University’s Warning, Advice & Reporting Point. He is co-editor of ‘Securing Critical Infrastructures and Industrial Control Systems’, and a consultant for the European Network & Information Security Agency (ENISA). He has authored ENISA reports on Cyber-Bullying and Online Grooming and the Identification of Emerging and Future Risks, and he has worked with national law enforcement agencies in the development of postgraduate computer forensics/digital security programmes. He is currently Co-Investigator on EP/K006568/1: ‘Choice Architecture for Information Security’, part of the GCHQ/EPSRC Cyber Security Research Institute.
Publications by Dr Christopher Laing
- Horsman, Graeme, Laing, Christopher and Vickers, Paul (2014) A Case-Based Reasoning Method for Locating Evidence During Digital Forensic Device Triage. Decision Support Systems. ISSN 0167-9236 (In Press)
- Strachan, Rebecca, Pickard, Alison and Laing, Christopher (2010) Bringing technical authoring skills to life for students through an employer audience. ITALICS (Innovation in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences) , 9 (2). pp. 1-11. ISSN 1473-7507
- Zang, Binyu, Li, Yinsheng, Xie, Wei, Chen, Zhuangjian, Tsai, Chen-Fang and Laing, Christopher (2008) An ontological engineering approach for automating inspection and quarantine at airports. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 74 (2). pp. 196-210. ISSN 0022-0000
- Li, Yinsheng, Ma, Zhanxin, Xie, Wei and Laing, Christopher (2006) Inspection oriented encoding service based on machine learning and semantics mining. Expert Systems with Applications, 31 (4). pp. 835-848. ISSN 1873-6793
- Laing, Christopher, Younas, Muhammad and Chao, Kuo-Ming (2005) Composition of mismatched web services in distributed service oriented design activities. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 19 (2). pp. 143-153. ISSN 1474-0346
- Laing, Christopher, Robinson, Alan and Johnston, Veronique (2005) Managing the transition into higher education: an on-line Spiral Induction Programme. Active Learning in Higher Education, 6 (2). pp. 243-255. ISSN 1469-7874
- Laing, Christopher and Robinson, Alan (2003) The withdrawal of non-traditional students: developing an explanatory model. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 27 (2). pp. 175-185. ISSN 0309-877X
- Laing, Christopher, Badii, Atta and Vickers, Paul (2012) Securing Critical Infrastructures and Critical Control Systems: Approaches for Threat Protection. IGI Global, Hershey, PA. ISBN 9781466626591
- Horsman, Graeme, Laing, Christopher and Vickers, Paul (2012) A method for reducing the risk of errors in digital forensic investigations. In: Communications and Multimedia Security: Proceedings of 13th IFIP TC 6/TC 11 International Conference, CMS 2012. Springer, Berlin, pp. 99-106. ISBN 978-3642328046
- Horsman, Graeme, Laing, Christopher and Vickers, Paul (2012) A case based reasoning framework for improving the trustworthiness of digital forensic investigations. In: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 11th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications. IEEE, Piscataway, pp. 682-689. ISBN 978-1467321723
- Aljawarneh, Shadi, Laing, Christopher and Vickers, Paul (2007) Security policy framework and algorithms for web server content protection. In: ACSF 2007. Liverpool John Moores University. ISBN 9781902560175