Yusuf UZUNAY

Profession:
Information Technologies Coordinator
T.R. Prime Ministry
State Planning Organization
Centre for EU Education and Youth Prog.
(Turkish National Agency)

Current Education:
Ph.d student in Informatics Institute
Middle East Technical University

My CVE

"How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
                         [Shakespeare]

I am a Ph.d student in METU Informatics Institude.  My primary research is in the areas of Network Security and Cyber Crime. In my B.Sc study I am supervised by Yrd.Doc.Dr. O.Ayhan Erdem. My recent work has focused on the topics of Digital Evidence Verification, Phishing Prevention and  Unauthorized  Internet Access Prevention . Now I am working with Dr. Kemal Bicakci. 

My Recent Projects:

§   A PKI Based Digital Evidence Verification Model

§  User Information Management and Audit System

§  Unauthorized Internet Access Detection and Blocking System

      PUBLICATIONS

• Kemal Bicakci, Yusuf Uzunay, “Pushing the Limits of Address Based Authentication: How to Avoid MAC Address Spoofing in Wireless LANs”, Proceedings of World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Volume 32, pp 244-254, August 2008
• Didem Gökçay, Şeref Arıkan, Yusuf Uzunay, 'Investigating behavioural problems in text-based communication by deriving an analogy between brain damage and media richness', ICANN 2007, 'Workshop on What it Means to Communicate', 2007, Porto

• Yusuf Uzunay, Kemal Bicakci, "SHA: A Secure Voice Activated Smart Home for Quadriplegia Patients", to be presented in International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Management in Health Informatics in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine November 2007 Silicon Valley, USA
• Didem Gokcay, Seref Arikan, Yusuf Uzunay, "Does computer mediated communication create people without amygdala", COGNITIVE IV: International Cognitive Neuroscience Symposium" Marmaris Turkey, May 2007 
• Yusuf Uzunay, Davut Incebacak, Kemal Bicakci, "Towards Trustable Digital Evidence with PKIDEV: PKI based Digital Evidence Verification Model", Proceedings of the 2^nd European Conference on Computer Network Defence (EC2ND)", in conjuction with the First Workshop on Digital Forensics and Incident Analysis, Springer London, United Kingdom, December 2006 
• Yusuf Uzunay, "Design and Implementation of an Unauthorized Internet Access Blocking System Validating the Source Information In Internet Access Logs", M.Sc. Thesis submitted to Graduate School of Informatics Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara Turkey, September 2006 
    2006 METU "BEST THESIS OF THE YEAR" AWARD
• Yusuf Uzunay, Kemal Bicakci, "UNIDES: An Efficient Real-Time System to Detect and Block Unauthorized Internet Access", 1^st International Workshop on Security in Networks and Distributed Systems (SNDS 2005) in conjunction with 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2005). IEEE, Computer Society, July 2005, Fukuoka, Japan pdf
• Yusuf Uzunay, Kemal Bicakci, "A3D3M: A PKI Based Digital Evidence Verification Model", ABG2005: National Network and Information Security Symposium, June, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey pdf
• Yusuf Uzunay, Mustafa Kocak, "Child Pornography on Internet and the Difficulties in Combating", Turkish Journal of Police Studies, Vol:7 (2), 2005, pp. 97-116, Ankara, Turkey pdf
• Yusuf Uzunay,  "Network Forensics", Computer Forensics Workshop'05, May 2005, Izmir Turkey pdf
• Yusuf Uzunay, Mustafa Kocak, "Digital Evidences in the Domain of Cyber Crime", AB'05 Academic Informatics Conference, February 2005, Gaziantep, Turkey pdf
• Yusuf Uzunay, "Digital Evidence Investigation Process", The 2.nd Police Informatics Symposium, April, 2005, Ankara, Turkey pdf
• Yusuf Uzunay, "Digital Attacks, It's Importance to Security Forces and Ways of Protection", Turkish Journal of Police Studies, Vol:5 (2) 2003 Page:131 Ankara, Turkey