Multicloud environments are becoming more common, often businesses will have workloads across one or more of AWS, Azure and GCP, with each provider slightly differing in security features and capabilities. Furthermore, Infrastructure as Code is increasing in popularity meaning cloud resources are being provisioned as code through automation pipelines as opposed to GUI/Portal deployments. This shift means that security scanning of the resource code is a crucial first step in securing a cloud environment, and the tool(s) being used for this need to be able to perform at a consistent level across all the different cloud providers. Failure to do this could mean the introduction of security vulne... More >

Audio-visual spoofing attacks have emerged as a serious threat to modern hearing-assistive systems due to rapid advances in text-to-speech synthesis, neural vocoders, and lip-sync deepfake generation. Advanced hearing aids and cochlear implants increasingly incorporate AI-based speech enhancement and multimodal perception modules, which makes them vulnerable to manipulated or synthetic inputs. Traditional spoof detection approaches are often limited to binary classification between bonafide and spoofed speech, failing to capture the diversity of emerging multi-modal attack types.In this paper, we propose a multi-attack audio-visual spoof detection framework designed that explicitly models fo... More >

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in healthcare to support disease prediction and clinical decision-making. Traditional centralised machine learning approaches often require the aggregation of sensitive patient data into a single repository, which raises substantial privacy, ethical, and regulatory concerns. Federated learning has emerged as a privacy-preserving alternative that enables collaborative model training across distributed data sources without sharing raw patient data. In this study, we investigate whether federated learning can achieve predictive performance comparable to that of centralised machine learning when applied to structured healthcare data. Using the PI... More >