Callum Cameron

Federated Learning Intrusion Detection System

Developed and evaluated a privacy-preserving intrusion detection system using federated learning. Built a PyTorch multilayer perceptron and used Flower to compare centralised and federated training approaches on approximately 946,000 CICIDS2017 network flows.

• Centralised F1 score: 99.38%
• Federated F1 score: 99.20%
• Approximately 946,000 network flows
• Compared detection performance and privacy trade-offs
• Dissertation manuscript in preparation for academic publication

• Python
• PyTorch
• Flower
• Scikit-learn
• Pandas
• Docker
• CICIDS2017

World Wide Technology Cybersecurity Industry Project

Collaborated with World Wide Technology to evaluate public large language models for creating cybersecurity artefacts, including incident response materials, recovery documentation, workflow diagrams and security operations content.

• Accuracy
• Hallucination risk
• Reliability
• Operational usefulness
• Information security considerations

Models evaluated included GPT-4o, Claude, Llama, DeepSeek, NotebookLM and FLAN-T5 XXL.

• LLM Evaluation
• Incident Response
• Security Operations

AWS Malware and Botnet Analysis Lab

Built a cloud-based malware analysis environment in AWS to investigate botnet behaviour and command-and-control traffic.

• AWS EC2 and VPC networking
• Isolated analysis environment
• Packet capture investigation
• Command-and-control traffic
• Malware behaviour analysis
• Network forensics

• AWS
• EC2
• VPC
• Wireshark
• Malware Analysis

Web Application Penetration Test

Performed a structured web application security assessment following the PTES methodology.

• Reconnaissance
• Vulnerability discovery
• Exploitation
• Risk assessment
• OWASP vulnerabilities
• Technical reporting
• Remediation guidance

• PTES
• OWASP
• Burp Suite
• Kali Linux

Secure Online Banking Application

Developed a secure banking web application as part of university coursework.

• Authentication
• Authorisation
• Database integration
• Input validation
• Secure coding
• Session handling
• User account management

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• SQL
• Secure Coding