Centre of Excellence for Security and Cybercrime

Bill Buchanan is a Professor in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University. He currently leads the Centre for Distributed Computing and Security, and works in the areas of security, e-Crime, intrusion detection systems, digital forensics, e-Health, mobile computing, agent-based systems, and simulation. Bill has one of the most extensive academic sites in the World, and is involved in many areas of novel teaching in computing. He has published over 26 academic books, and over 100 academic research papers, along with awards for excellence in knowledge transfer. Presently he is working with a range of industrial/domain partners, including with the Scottish Police, health care professionals and the FSA. [Bill's]

Mike Just is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Engineering & Computing at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is also a Visitor at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Mike has penned more than two dozen publications in his areas of interest, which include applied cryptography, human computer interaction, network security, and social informatics. Prior to his current academic position, Mike spent more than 10 years working in both the public and private sectors. In 2003, he designed the Government of Canada's online authentication recovery solution, currently used by more than 6 million citizens and businesses. He earned his PhD in Computer Science in 1999 from Carleton University. [Mike]

Richard is a lecturer in Security and Forensics in the School of Computing, at Edinburgh Napier University. Current research areas include Network Security, Forensic and Security Frameworks, Virtualisation, and Network Device Emulators. He has a Degree in Computing, followed by 7 years in industry, Masters in Networking and 2 years teaching Networking, Security and Forensics, BSc Hons, MSc, Cisco Instructor CCNA, CCNA Security, PBCS, EnCase Forensic I.

Dr Ishbel Duncan is a lecturer in the School of  Computer Science at the University of St Andrews. Having previously been a Research Fellow with BT investigating large scale software testing  in which the adequacy of a test suite is optimal, she became interested in the adequacy of security, that is, security testing and analysis of its effectiveness. She has worked on projects as diverse as communications metrics, wireless sensor networks, e-voting, agent testing, virtual world education and security requirements modelling before building up and currently running a successful MSc programme in Information Technology. She lectures in Security at both Honours and MSc level.[Ishbel]