Salman Manzoor – Systems & Security Group (SSG)

I am an RA in the systems security group. My research primarily focuses on threat modeling and analysis of distributed systems such as the Cloud. The objective of the research is to 1) profile threats and understand their propagation in the system, and 2) explore attack surface exploitable across varied attacker profiles.

For any queries, I can be contacted at s.manzoor1@lancaster.ac.uk

Research Interests:

Threat Modelling & Intelligence
Security assessment of the Cloud
Security risk measurement & SLAs

Projects:

Publications:

InfoLeak: Scheduling-based Information Leakage, Tsvetoslava Vateva-Gurova, Salman Manzoor, Yennun Huang and Neeraj Suri
Proc. of PRDC, 2018
Protecting Cloud-based CIs: Covert Channel Vulnerabilities at the Resource,Tsvetoslava Vateva-Gurova, Salman Manzoor, Ruben Trapero and Neeraj Suri, Proc. of LNCS IOSEC, 2018
Threat Modeling the Cloud: An Ontology Based Approach,Salman Manzoor, Tsvetoslava Vateva-Gurova, Ruben Trapero and Neeraj Suri
Proc. of LNCS IOSEC, 2018
AttackDive: Diving Deep into the Cloud Ecosystem to Explore Attack Surfaces, Salman Manzoor, Jesus Luna and Neeraj Suri
Proc. of IEEE Services Computing (SCC), 2017
SLA-based Service Selection for Multi-Cloud Environments, Ahmed Taha, Salman Manzoor and Neeraj Suri, Proc. of IEEE EDGE Computing (EGDE), 2017
Trust Validation of the Cloud IaaS: A customer Centric Approach, Salman Manzoor, Ahmed Taha and Neeraj Suri, Proc. of IEEE TrustCom 2016.

News & Events
IJCNN '24 A. Pellcier et al, UNICAD: A Unified Approach for Attack Detection, Noise Reduction and Novel Class Identification. pdf
NFM '24 O. Gunasekera et al, Real Arithmetic in TLAPM. pdf
IEEE TCC S. Manzoor et al, Enabling Multi-Layer Threat Analysis in Dynamic Cloud Environments. pdf
arXiv S. Winter et al, Error Propagation Analysis for Multithreaded Programs: An Empirical Approach. pdf
Springer Open’24 E. Chuah et al, An Empirical Study of Reflection Attacks Using NetFlow Data. pdf
Space Policy’23 V. Varadharajan et al, Security Challenges When Space Merges With Cyberspace. pdf
LANMAN’23 S. Rene et al, Scalable Content-centric Routing for Hybrid ICN. pdf
DAPPS’23 N. Keizer et al, Ditto: Towards Decentralised Similarity Search for Web3 Services. pdf
IMC’23 L. Balduf et al, The Cloud Strikes Back: Investigating the Decentralization of IPFS. pdf
CAMLIS’23 S. Trawicki et al, Compilation as a Defense: Enhancing DL Model Attack Robustness via Tensor Optimization. pdf
CAMLIS’23 L. Birch et al, Model Leeching: An Extraction Attack Targeting LLMs. pdf
SSCI’23 Y. Li et al, Fuzzy Detectors Against Adversarial Attacks. pdf
IMC’23 S. Kastanakis et al, 20 Years of Inferring Inter-domain Routing Policies. pdf
DASC’23 B. Yuksek et al, Federated Meta Learning for Visual Navigation in GPS-denied Urban Airspace. pdf
NDSS’24 S. Sridhar et al, Content Censorship in the InterPlanetary File System. pdf
MASS’23 Z. Yu et al, RAFL: A Robust and Adaptive Federated Meta-Learning Framework Against Adversaries. pdf
TOPS’23 Y. Lu et al, Privacy-preserving Decentralized Federated Learning over Time-varying Communication Graph. pdf
T-ASE’23 Y. Lu et al, Transactive Energy System Deployment over Insecure Communication Links. pdf
IJCNN’23 Y. Li et al, Domain Generalization and Feature Fusion for Cross-domain Imperceptible Adversarial Attack Detection. pdf
CyBok: SSG Prof. Suri defines NCSC’s CyBOK knowledge area on Distributed Systems Security
Prof. Suri to lead LU's ACE-CSE
Security Institute to lead £3M UKRI-TAS research node to examine cybersecurity in autonomous systems.^New
MSN'22 Best Paper Award for Z. Yu et al, PPFM: An Adaptive and Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer Federated Meta-Learning Framework
ICNC '23: A. Taha et al, Cloud Security Requirement Based Threat Analysis, to appear.
MSN'22: Z. Yu et al, PPFM: An Adaptive and Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer Federated Meta-Learning Framework. pdf
CIDUE/SSCI'22: E. Soares et al, Similarity-based Deep Neural Network to Detect Imperceptible Adversarial Attacks. pdf
ISSRE'22: Y. Chen et al, SlowCoach: Mutating Code to Simulate Performance Bugs. pdf
FGCS'22: M. Bradbury et al, Information Management for Trust Computation on Resource-constrained IoT Devices. pdf
ToSN'22: M. Bradbury et al, Threat Modelling Guided Trust-based Task Offloading for Resource-constrained Internet of Things. pdf
NCA'21: E. Chuah et al, Challenges in Identifying Network Attacks Using Netflow Data. pdf
COSE'21: B. Green et al, PCaaD: Towards automated determination and exploitation of industrial systems. pdf