Barry Irwin
Professor
Computer Science
Rhodes University
South Africa
Biography
Professor Irwin is a PhD graduate of Computer Science from Rhodes University. He spent several years working in the network security field before returning to lecture at Rhodes. He heads the Security and Networks Research Group (SNRG) within the Department. The coursework based MSc specialsing in Information Security falls within this group. He holds the CISSP certification. He is involved in the National Cybersecurity Centers of Innovation program.
Research Interest
Network security technologies, passive security monitoring, data visualisation, information security awareness, information warfare and national cyberdefence.
Publications
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Irwin B, Pilkington N (2008) High level internet scale traffic visualization using hilbert curve mapping. VizSEC, 147-158.
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van Riel JP, Irwin B (2006) InetVis, a visual tool for network telescope traffic analysis. 4th international conference on Computer graphics, virtual reality, visualisation and interaction in Africa, ACM, 85-89.
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Stalmans E, Irwin B (2011) A framework for DNS based detection and mitigation of malware infections on a network. In Information Security South Africa, IEEE, 1-8.
