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Research Brown Bag Presentations Internet of Things is a communication platform that interconnects different types of home devices (home IoT networks) or industrial devices (industrial IoT networks). These devices usually lack sufficient protection against network attacks, which can cause serious damages. Besides intentional attacks, malfunctioning and failures can also be immensely disruptive. Thus, IoT monitoring has become a new domain of network monitoring and management. It includes monitoring of device behaviour, data acquisition, and device settings, among others. Security monitoring focuses on detection of attacks and anomalies in communication. Traditional methods used in security monitoring have a limited scope of usage because IoT communication differs from common internet communication patterns. Thus, it is necessary to extend these methods or propose a new approach to analysing IoT monitoring metadata. With regard to extending the traditional methods, this project will aim at coming up with new Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) objects and extended Internet Protocol Flow Information Export (IPFIX) records, as well as to provide detection of selected attacks on the SIEM side. The goal of the project is to analyse different methods of IoT security monitoring and define how to protect these networks against common threats. An advanced monitoring system will be implemented into existing Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems. Strathmore University - @iLabAfrica

2018 Conference paper. Theme (ICT, Mobile Applications and Cyber-Security) The prevalence of fake academic certificates in the country is worrying. This has come to light in the media during the vetting process for different jobs such as when recruiting candidates for key public sector positions. The fraudulent use of fake qualifications is a fact that educational institutions and employers have to face. In order to curb this trend, institutions have taken measures that usually involve a third party to verify the authenticity of educational certificates. The main weaknesses of this approach include the time taken to verify certificates is too long. Additionally, the fact that there is an intermediary introduces aspects such as extra costs and the potential inaccessibility to institutions in all geographies. This research project proposes to set up a system that not only makes it easy to maintain records of academic achievement but also make the fast and effective verification of a certificate’s authenticity possible. The system will rely on distributed ledger technology also known as blockchain, to accomplish this goal. A blockchain is a trustworthy, distributed digital ledger that contains records of transactions that are replicated across many systems. The records are cryptographically guaranteed to be immutable. This research intends to leverage these and other features of distributed ledgers in order to develop a system that can address the issue of fake certificates. @iLabAfrica Research Centre, Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya