Information Security Research Group
Thesis Topics
Suggested Topics for Master/Bachelor Thesis
We are looking for motivated students who would be interested in exploring and preparing their thesis on the following areas and topics:
Transportation & Security
- Security Risk Management in Teleoperated Driving (supervisor: Raimundas Matulevičius, contact: rma@ut.ee)
- Explainable Misinformation Detection Across the Internet of Vehicles using AI and Blockchain (supervisor: Mubashar Iqbal)
- Blockchain-based Security Ontology for the Internet of Vehicles (supervisor: Mubashar Iqbal)
Healthcare & Security
- Security of digital twins in healthcare (supervisor: Mubashar Iqbal)
Blockchain & Security
- Blockchain-enabled digital twins as intrusion detection systems (supervisor: Mubashar Iqbal)
- Metaverse cybersecurity using blockchain (supervisor: Mubashar Iqbal)
IoT Systems & Security
- AI&ML for Security and Security of AI&ML (supervisor: Raimundas Matulevičius, contact: rma@ut.ee)
- Security of Automated Systems (supervisor: Raimundas Matulevičius, contact: rma@ut.ee)
- Security Modelling Languages for the Digital Twins (supervisor: Raimundas Matulevičius, contact: rma@ut.ee)
- Exploring the Efficacy of Machine Learning Algorithms in Real-Time Threat Identification Across Different Layers of IoT Architectures (supervisor: Abasi-Amefon Obot Affia)
- Explainable AI for Cybersecurity of the Industrial Internet of Things (supervisor: Mubashar Iqbal)
- Model-driven engineering of digital twins (supervisor: Mubashar Iqbal)
Compliance, Standards & Security
- Extension of a goal modelling language for GDPR-compliant system definition (supervisor: Raimundas Matulevičius, contact: rma@ut.ee)
- Tool-supported privacy analysis of smart parking (supervisor: Mariia Bahktina)
- Review of privacy analysis tools (supervisor: Mariia Bahktina)
- Security and Privacy Methods in Intelligent Infrastructure Development: Case Study (supervisor: Mariia Bakhtina)
- Metaverse security and privacy (supervisor: Mubashar Iqbal)
- Developing Innovative Methods for Human-Centric Cybersecurity Training (supervisor: Mubashar Iqbal)
- Conceptual model of the Estonian Information Security Standard (supervisor: Mari Seeba)
- Cybersecurity maturity model for startups (supervisor: Mari Seeba)
Security Risk Management
- Dynamic Risk Assessment in IoT: An Approach Based on Quantitative Metrics and Temporal Risk Factors (supervisor: Abasi-Amefon Obot Affia)
- Investigating the Propagation of Vulnerabilities through Third-Party Libraries in IoT Applications (supervisor: Abasi-Amefon Obot Affia)
- Risk Estimation in IoT Middleware and Applications Layers in IoT Systems (supervisor: Abasi-Amefon Obot Affia)
Previously Defended Master/Bachelor Thesis
2023:
- Maria Pibilota Murumaa, Designing a Security Sensitive Self-assessment Framework, sup.: Seeba M., Oja T. (link), Master thesis
- Ashfaq Hussain Ahmed, Harnessing Blockchain and Digital Twin for Security Risk Assessment in Internet of Vehicles, sup.: Iqba M., Suhail S. (link), Master thesis
- Heikki Santeri Sipilä, Scalability Assessment in Blockchain-enabled IoT Applications, sup.: Iqbal M., Affia AAO, Russell W. F. Lai (link), Master thesis
- Kin Long Leung, A Decentralized Public Key Infrastructure for Trust Management in X-Road, sup.: Bakhtina M., Awad A., Matulevičius R., (link), Master thesis
- Madis Valk, Security Risk Management in Auditing Processes, Matulevičius, R. (link), Master thesis
- Alessandro Chiarelli, Securing the Bridges Between Two Worlds: A Systematic Literature Review of Blockchain Oracles Security, sup.: Iqbal M., Matulevičius R., Fagerholm F., (link), Master thesis
- Iwada Eja Bassey, Blockchain in Edge - Cloud Computing Continuum, sup.: Dehury Ch. K., Iqbal M., (link), Master thesis
- Thomas Lepik, Eesti Infoturbestandardi turvameetmete rakendatuse automaatkontrolli põhimõtted, (Towards Automated Compliance Checking for Estonian Information Security Standard), sup.: M. Seeba, T. Oja (link), Tallinn University, Master thesis