Gurdip Kaur and Arash Habibi Lashkari

***Dr. Gurdip Kaur is a Risk Advisory Consultant at Deloitte Canada. She is a CompTIA certified CyberSecurity Analyst (CySA+) experienced in detecting and analyzing malicious network traffic. She is the author of the book titled “Understanding Cybersecurity Management in FinTech” published by Springer in 2021. She has also contributed to the “Understanding Android Malware Families (UAMF)” series to the IT World Canada this year. She has published several book chapters and research papers with reputed journals. She has contributed to three public cybersecurity datasets generated at the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity, University of New Brunswick. She was awarded two gold medals in Bachelor of Technology and a silver medal for the research project on high interaction honeypots. Her research project on malware reverse engineering was selected among top 10 projects in the National Student Project Contest in 2015. She is strongly inclined towards cybersecurity, malware analysis, vulnerability management, incident reporting, and SIEM solutions. ***Dr. Arash Habibi Lashkari is an Associate Professor in Cybersecurity at York University and a senior member of the IEEE. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick (UNB), and research coordinator of the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC). He has over 23 years of academic and industry experience. He has received 15 awards at international computer security competitions - including three gold awards - and was recognized as one of Canada’s Top 150 Researchers for 2017. He also is the author of ten published books and more than 100 academic articles on a variety of cybersecurity-related topics. In 2020, he was recognized with the prestigious Teaching Innovation Award for his personally-created teaching methodology, the Think-Que-Cussion Method. He is the author of 12 published books and more than 100 academic papers on various cybersecurity-related topics. He is the founder of the Understanding Cybersecurity Series (UCS), an ongoing research and development project culminating with a varied collection of online articles and blogs, published books, open-source packages, and datasets tailored for researchers and readers at all levels. His first two books in this series are entitled "Understanding Cybersecurity Management in FinTech - Challenges, Strategies, and Trends" and "Understanding Cybersecurity Law and Digital Privacy - A Common Law Perspective," published by Springer in 2021. The first online blog series of UCS entitled "Understanding Canadian Cybersecurity Laws", was recognized with a Gold Medal at the 2020 Canadian Online Publishing Awards (COPA). His research focuses on cyber threat modeling and detection, malware analysis, big data security, internet traffic analysis, and cybersecurity dataset generation.

Articles by Gurdip Kaur and Arash Habibi Lashkari

Understanding Android Malware Families: Riskware – is it worth it? (Article 4)

This article reveals prominent Android families and provides in-depth insights into the functions, activities and communication processes used by attackers.

Understanding Android Malware Families: ransomware and scareware (Article 3)

Ransomware is malicious software used by individuals to encrypt documents on computers or digital devices.  How they work Perpetrators demand a ransom from the owner of...

Understanding Android Malware Families (UAMF) – The Trojan: An impersonator in the background (Article 2)

Introduction The trojan is a sneaky impersonator that behaves like a legitimate program. It can hide in the background and steal information from the device....

Understanding Android Malware Families (UAMF) – The Foundations (Article 1)

The Understanding Android malware families (UAMF) series features six articles that will highlight the main Android malware categories and families, beginning with the fundamentals of Android malware.

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