Dr Toyosi Oyinloye
Deputy Head
Biography
Toyosi is currently the Deputy Head of School, School of Computer and Engineering Sciences at the University of Chester. She is also the leader of the MSc Cybersecurity programme, which has been vibrant and certified by the NCSC under her leadership. Her leadership effort continues to develop the quality and standards of programmes on all Cybersecurity programmes and other programmes across the School. Toyosi has a PhD in Cybersecurity and background in Software Development and Database Management. With over 20 years of experience in Computer programming, Software development and Software security, she contributes her knowledge and skills to the research and academic growth of her subject area within and outside the University of Chester. She teaches in the area of Computer Science and Cybersecurity. Her areas of expertise include Ethical Hacking, Software Exploitation and Security, Data Visualisation, Application Development and Database Management.
Teaching and Supervision
Toyosi teaches final-year undergraduate computer programming with a focus on Swift programming language for iOS Development. She also teaches Cybersecurity modules at the postgraduate level. This includes Research Methods, and Software Exploitation which delves into different techniques for exploiting vulnerable applications written in C and C++ and how they can be protected.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Toyosi' s recent research is on enhancing Software Protection via Inter-Process Control Flow Integrity. It aimed to mitigate Control Flow Hijacks in vulnerable binaries. She also has interest in studies relating to mitigating Social engineering attacks, and how Data Visualization is applied for incident response.