Ahmed Walid Amro
Research
Research interests include:
- Cyber risk assessment
- Cyber risk management
- Cybersecurity certification
- Threat Modelling
- Maritime Cybersecurity
- Cyber ranges and testbeds
- Autonomous ships
- Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Autoferry
Autoferry, aims to develop groundbreaking new concepts and methods which will enable the development of small autonomous passenger ferries in urban areas for water transport.
CertifAI: Agile conformance assessment for cybersecurity CERTIFication enhanced by Artificial Intelligence
Aiming at bridging the gap between traditional cybersecurity certification processes and agile product development using artificial intellegence
cPAID: cloud-based platform-agnostic AI defence framework
The project develops a cloud-based framework to protect AI from adversarial attacks, integrating AI-based defenses, security-by-design, and ethical principles. It ensures robust ML/DL, privacy, and explainability, validated through real-world use cases.
CyberSec4Europe
CyberSec4Europe is a research and innovation pilot for the planned European Cybersecurity Competence Centre in Bucharest and the Network of cybersecurity expertise.
Outreach
Management of Cyber Risks in Autonomous Ships
Academic lecture
Communication and Cybersecurity for Autonomous Passenger Ferry
Research Seminar
From Threat Models to Penetration Testing Plans: A Healthcare Use Case
A hands-on lecture bridged SoTA threat modelling (using OWASP ThreatDragon on OpenEMR) with penetration testing. Students modelled threats in a hospital system and collaboratively tested vulnerabilities in a virtual OpenEMR network.
CIMSS 2025 Workshop Chair
5th International Workshop on Critical Infrastructure and Manufacturing System Security (CIMSS)
CPSS 2025 Publication Chair/Program Committee
11th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop
(CPSS 2025)
CyberShield Workshop Technical program committee
2025 IEEE CSR Workshop on Cybersecurity Innovation and Resilience (CyberShield)
CyberICPS Program Committee Member
10th Workshop on the Security of Industrial Control Systems & of Cyber-Physical Systems (CyberICPS 2024)
2024
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Lecture(2024) Tactics, Techniques, and procedures of Cyber Threats Against Ships. Memorial University - Canada Maritime Cybersecurity - Building Resiliency , Hybrid: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/maritime-cybersecurity-building-resiliency-tickets-949877558347 2024-10-29 - 2024-10-29
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Lecture(2024) Management of Cyber Risks in Autonomous Ships. Muhammad Ali Fauzi - University of Brawijaya Guest Lecture , Hybrid: Presenter online, students online and physical 2024-10-08 - 2024-10-08
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Lecture(2024) From Threat Models to Penetration Testing Plans: A Healthcare Use Case. CybersecPro, CybAlliance, and ISLA projects IPICS summer school 2024 , Porto, Portugal 2024-07-12 - 2024-07-12