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As the Internet, and the creation, storage and consumption of electronic information, increases by the day, it is important that we create an infrastructure which has high levels of security and trust. Without these the Internet will not truly scale to encapsulate every aspect of our lives, and leave threats to the future economy and to our own personal integration with it. This proposal aims to bring together knowledge from many different domains, such as from academia, industry, the public sector, and law enforcement professionals, in order to create a World-leading centre of Excellence in Security and Cybercrime. Its overall vision is to improving the lives of the people of Scotland and NI, though excellence in research, knowledge transfer, and teaching. This includes the vision to create next generation systems which protect the rights of individuals, and which also to reduce the risks of our citizens in the face of threats that they are now exposed to. The overall collaboration will thus be in the most inclusive way possible, and will allow knowledge to flow across domains. Scotland has a great opportunity in that it has strong domain experience, especially with the financial services industry and in the Scottish Police, and could support collaboration across different institutes. |
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Current lead collaborators
The following are the lead collaborators for their organisations:
Police/Public Sector:
• Batey, Alan (Northumbria Police).
• Brown, Alan (North East Fraud Forum).
• Chris Mooney (Glasgow Community and Safety).
• Dickson, Mike (Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency).
• Dobie, Alan (Scottish Business Crime Centre).
• Rahman, Arshad (FSA).
• Russell Scott (National Intelligence Model Development Team).
• Thuemmler, Christoph (NHS/Health Care).
• Walker, Liam, National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (Scotland).
Academia:
• Ball, Leslie (Abertay University).
• Buchanan, Bill (Edinburgh Napier University).
• Cairns, David (University of Stirling).
• Fyfe, Nick (University of Dundee).
• Georgieva, Lilia (Herriot-Watt University).
• Duncan, Ishbel (University of St. Andrews).
• Just, Mike (Glasgow Caledonian University).
• Schafer, Burkhard (Joseph Bell Centre, University of Edinburgh).
• Renaud, Karen (University of Glasgow).
• Weir, George (University of Strathclyde).
Industry:
• Gibson, Mark (Memex).
• Graves, Jamie (Inquisitive Systems).
• Hazelhoff, Roelfzema, Nicole (bSkyb).
• Hewitt, David (Ansec IA Ltd).
• Johnson, Graham (NCR Corp).
• Howie, John (Microsoft).
• Moffat, Alan (RSC2 Solutions).
• Morrison, John (Sapphire Ltd).
• Nesbitt, Frank (Tait Walker).
• Ogilvie, Alex (Object Associates).
• Pemble, Matthew (Idrach Ltd).
• Smith, Don (SecureWorks/DNS).