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Valentina Viduto

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Valentina Viduto, Final Year PhD student

Valentina Viduto

Valentina Viduto received a BSc (Hons) First Class in Computer Networking from the University of Bedfordshire in 2009. She has been awarded the William Lee Prize for the most outstanding honours project in computing.

The same year, Valentina was accepted as a PhD student on a project funded by EPSRC investigating risk assessment and optimisation model for minimising network security risk and cost.

Research Interests

  • Network Security and Countermeasures
  • Risk Assessment and Management
  • Threats and Vulnerabilities
  • Optimisation Techniques
  • Visualisation Techniques: Attack graphs and trees

Publications

  • Carsten Maple, Valentina Viduto. A visualisation technique for the identification of security threats in networked systems, in: Information Visualisation (IV), 2010, pp. 551–556.
  • Valentina Viduto, Wei Huang and Carsten Maple. A novel strategy for optimal security investments, in: 16th International Conference on Automation & Computing, 2010 Birmingham.
  • Valentina Viduto, Carsten Maple and Wei Huang. An analytical evaluation of network security modelling techniques applied to manage threats, BWCCA 2010, pp. 117–123.
  • Valentina Viduto, Carsten Maple and Wei Huang. Managing threats by the use of visualisation techniques. International Journal of Space based and Situated Computing 1 (2/3) (2011), pp. 204–212.
  • Carsten Maple, Valentina Viduto and Gregory Epiphaniou. A theoretical framework for addressing trust in open pervasive networks. PECCS 2011, pp. 173-178.
  • Valentina Viduto, Wei Huang and Carsten Maple. Toward optimal multi-objective models of network security: survey. ICAC 2011, pp. 6-11.
  • Valentina Viduto, Carsten Maple, Wei Huang, David Lopez-Perez. A novel risk assessment and optimisation model for a multi-objective countermeasure selection problem. Submitted to Decision Support Systems, 2011.

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Valentina Viduto
T: +44(0)1234 400 400 Ext 2159
Bedfordshire University

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