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Dr. Martin Koyabe works as a Senior Researcher in Information & Network Security with British Telecom (BT) at the Centre for Information Security & Systems Research (CISSR), BT Innovate. His main areas of speciality include Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation techniques and architectures, critical network infrastructure security, anomaly detection, bots and botnets mitigation techniques, security penetration testing methodologies, Identity management, ethical hacking, risk analysis, security compliance, practice and governance. Before joining BT, Martin worked for 3 years as a post-doctorate research fellow at the University of Aberdeen where he graduated with a PhD in Communications Engineering. His doctorate work was sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA), and mainly focused on designing and deployment of secure reliable Internet Protocol (IP) multicast transport protocols over next-generation satellite networks operating at extra high-frequencies (EHF). In the last two decades, Martin has worked on numerous technical projects both in Africa and the European Union. He was among the first Internet engineers to pioneer the Full-Internet deployment & connectivity in Kenya, while working as the Principal Engineer with African Regional Centre for Computing (ARCC). He has published widely in international journals and conferences, and co-invented several patents.
Martin is a certified security testing associate and professional (CSTA & CSTP); a member of European Research Association (EU-RA), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)-UK, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Internet Society (ISOC) and active participant with Communication Research Networks (CRN) in Denial of Service (DoS) Working Group activities. He is also the Chair of NETWORKING4PROFESSIONALS (N4P) ICT Working Group, a UK based professional group that promotes partnership and collaboration in ICT between the UK Diaspora and Africa.
