Author Description

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 19th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (ECCWS 2020), supported by University of Chester, UK on 25-26 June 2020. The Conference Co-chairs are Dr Thaddeus Eze and Dr Lee Speakman, both from University of Chester and the Programme Chair is Dr Cyril Onwubiko from IEEE and Director, Cyber Security Intelligence at Research Series Limited. ECCWS is a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 19th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet. The conference was due to be held at University of Chester, UK, but due to the global Covid-19 pandemic it was moved online to be held as a virtual event. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting conference. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and ever-growing area of research. The opening keynote presentation is given by Dr Cyril Onwubiko on the topic of A Comprehensive Cyber Recovery Operational Framework. The second day of the conference will open with an address Detective Sergeant Damian Ward of the Metropolitan Police speaking on his Experiences of Policing Cybercrime in the UK: Challenges and Successes. With an initial submission of XX abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are XX Academic research papers, XX PhD research papers, XX Masters research papers and XX work-in-progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Brazil, Austria, China, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UAE, Uganda and the United Kingdom.