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Juhani AnttilaJuhani Anttila

Juhani Anttila graduated at Helsinki University of Technology in 1967 (M.Sc. – E. Eng., Telephony and Electronics), and completed General Management Programme for Specialists at Cranfield University School of Management, UK in 1997. He has been an International Academician for Quality (Member of the International Academy for Quality, IAQ) from 1995. He has been broadly involved with national and international standardization of telecommunications systems, information security management, and quality and dependability management, e.g. from 1980 he has been an active member of the international standardization committee ISO TC 176 (standards for quality management and assurance) and of the corresponding national committee in Finland. Since 2003 he has been an independent international expert, Venture Knowledgist Quality Integration, acting in his national and international professional networks, lecturing at several universities (including Universite de Fribourg, Schwitzerland, University of Oulu, and University of Lapland, Rovaniemi Finland), and helping selected business, public, and voluntary organizations in their development of quality management. Further information can be found here: http://www.QualityIntegration.biz and here: http://qiblog.blogspot.com

David ChadwickDavid Chadwick

David Chadwick is Professor of Information Systems Security at the University of Kent. He is the leader of the Information Systems Security Research Group and a member of IEEE and ACM. He has published widely, with over 120 publications in international journals, conferences and workshops, including 5 books and 12 book chapters. He has successfully managed over 25 research projects. He specialises in Public Key Infrastructures, Privilege Management Infrastructures, Trust Management, Identity Management, Privacy Management and Internet Security research in general. His group are the creators of PERMIS, an open source X.509 and SAML based authorisation infrastructure which is currently being integrated into the UK’s National Grid Service.

Hannes FederrathHannes Federrath

From 1989-1994 he studied computer science and earned a Ph. D. degree from Dresden University of Technology in 1998. He worked a a researcher in the group on Information and coding theory at Dresden University of Technology from 1994-1999. Between September 1999 and August 2000 he was a guest researcher at the International Computer Science Institute. Between September 2000 and August 2001 he was a guest professor, and until March 2003 he served as the head of the working group on IT-Security at Freie University Berlin, Department of Computer Science in Germany. Since April 2003 he is a full professor at University Regensburg.

Eduardo Fernández-Medina PatónProf. Dr. Eduardo Fernández-Medina Patón

PhD. and MSc. in Computer Science (Castilla-La Mancha and Sevilla University). He is Associate Professor at the Escuela Superior de Informática of the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha at Ciudad Real. His research activity is security in databases and information systems, web services security, data warehouses security, business process security, and security metrics. He is co-editor of several books and chapter books on these subjects, and he has several dozens of papers in national and international conferences. He participates at the ALARCOS research group of the Department of Information Technologies and Systems at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, in Ciudad Real, Spain. He belongs to various professional and research associations (ATI, AEC, AENOR, IFIP WG11.3 etc.).

Simone Fischer-HübnerProf. Dr. Simone Fischer-Hübner

Prof. Dr. Simone Fischer-Hübner has been a Professor at the Computer Science Department of Karlstad University since June 2000. She received a Diploma Degree in Computer Science with a minor in Law (1988), and Doctoral (1992) and Habilitation (1999) Degrees in Computer Science from Hamburg University. She has been doing research in the area of IT-security, privacy and privacy-enhancing technologies since 1987. She was a Research Assistant and Assistant Professor at Hamburg University (1988-2000) and a Guest Professor at the Copenhagen Business School (1994-1995) and at Stockholm University/Royal Institute of Technology (1998-1999). She was the chairperson of IFIP Working Group 9.6/11.7 (IT Misuse and the Law) from 1998-2005, and is member of the External Advisory Board of the IBM Privacy Institute, and board member of the of IEEE-Sweden Section – Computer/Software Engineering Chapter. She is currently partner in the EU FP6 projects PRIME (Privacy and Identity Management for Europe) and FIDIS (Future of Identity in the Information Society) and in the Eureka/CELTIC project BUGYO (Building Security Assurance in Open Infrastructures). http://www.cs.kau.se/~simone/

Ludwig FuchsDipl.-Wirtsch.-Inf. Univ. Ludwig Fuchs

Ludwig Fuchs is a lecturer at the University of Regensburg, Department of Information Systems. His research activities firstly focus on the analysis of the importance of Identity Management and roles for Information Security. Effectively managing user access to sensitive applications and data is one of the biggest security challenges facing organizations today. Secondly, the analysis of existing theoretical role development methodologies, practical state-of-the-art solutions, and their shortcomings are a main focus. The preliminary definition of valid roles is the most challenging task before achieving the benefits of role usage. Consecutively the development of a new, improved hybrid and tool-supported role development methodology (“HyDRo” – Hybrid Development of Roles) represents the third and main research focus.

Steven FurnellProf. Dr. Steven Furnell

Prof. Steven Furnell is the head of the Centre for Information Security & Network Research at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom, and an Adjunct Professor with Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. He specialises in computer security and has been actively researching in the area for fifteen years, with current areas of interest including security management, computer crime, user authentication, and security usability. Prof. Furnell is a Fellow and Branch Chair of the British Computer Society (BCS), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a UK representative in International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) working groups relating to Information Security Management (of which he is the current chair), Network Security, and Information Security Education. He is the author of over 180 papers in refereed international journals and conference proceedings, as well as the books Cybercrime: Vandalizing the Information Society (Addison Wesley, 2001) and Computer Insecurity: Risking the System (Springer, 2005). Further details can be found at www.plymouth.ac.uk/cisnr.

Luke HebbesProf. Dr. Luke Hebbes

Luke Hebbes received his Ph.D. (“Turbo Codes for Real-Time Applications”) in 2005, Kingston University, Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics. He is now senior lecturer at Kingston Unitversity and member of the Wireless Multimedia and Networking Research Group. Furthermore he works for the Research Center MINT (Mobile Information and Network Technologies). For more information click here: http://cism.kingston.ac.uk/people/details.php?AuthorID=218&Tab=2.

Oliver JornsOliver Jorns

Since 2002 he is Researcher at the Telecommunication Research Center Vienna. His research interests are Security, Privacy and Identity Management. He is teaching courses at the University of Vienna. Further details can be found here: http://userver.ftw.at/~jorns/oliverjornscv.pdf

Sokratis KatsikasProf. Dr. Sokratis Katsikas

Sokratis K. Katsikas received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the University of Patras, Patras, Greece in 1982, the Master of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, USA, in 1984 and the Ph.D. in Computer Engineering & Informatics from the University of Patras, Patras, Greece in 1987. Currently he is a Professor with the Dept. of Technology Education and Digital Systems of the University of Piraeus, Greece. From 1990 to 2007 he was with the University of the Aegean, Greece, where he served as Rector, Vice-rector, Department head, Professor of the Department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering and Director of the Information & Communication Systems Security Lab. His research interests lie in the areas of information and communication systems security and of estimation theory and its applications.

Stefan KatzenbeisserDr. Stefan Katzenbeisser

Dr. Stefan Katzenbeisser received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, and is currently assistant professor at the Computer Science Department at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. His main research activities are Cryptographic protocols (design, analysis), Cryptographic techniques for noisy and fuzzy data, Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Software Security, Watermarking, Digital Rights Management, Copyright Protection and Malicious Code Detection. Further information can be found here: http://www.seceng.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/people/stefan-katzenbeisser/

Costas LambrinoudakisProf. Dr. Costas Lambrinoudakis

Assistant Professor Costas Lambrinoudakis (B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D) was born in Greece in 1963. He holds a B.Sc. (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) degree from the University of Salford (UK), an M.Sc. (Control Systems) and a Ph.D. (Computer Science) degree form the University of London (UK). Currently he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece and the Associate Director of the Laboratory of Information and Communication Systems Security (Info-Sec-Lab). He has been involved in several national and EU funded R&D projects in the areas of Information and Communication Systems Security.

Javier LopezProf. Dr. Javier Lopez

Javier Lopez received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 and 2000, respectively, from University of Malaga. From 1991 to 1994 he worked as a systems analyst in the private sector, and in 1994 he joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Malaga, where he actually is an Associate Professor. His research activities are mainly focused on information and network security, leading some Spanish and EU research projects in those areas, and part of his research has been developed while been a visiting researcher at several universities, namely, Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Yale in U.S, Tsukuba in Japan and QUT in Australia. Prof. Lopez is the Co-Editor in Chief of Springer’s International Journal of Information Security (IJIS), Spanish representative of the IFIP TC-11 WG (Security and Protection in Information Systems), and member of the Steering Committee of ERCIM’s Working Group on Security and Trust Management.

Konstantinos MarkantonakisDr. Konstantinos Markantonakis

Dr Konstantinos Markantonakis B.Sc. (Lancaster University), M.Sc., Ph.D. (London) received his BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from Lancaster University in 1995, his MSc in Information Security in 1996, his PhD in 2000 and his MBA in International Management in 2005 from Royal Holloway, University of London. He is currently a Reader in the Information Security Group. His main research interests include smart card security and applications, secure cryptographic protocol design, Public Key Infrastructures, key management, mobile phone security, embedded systems. Since completing his PhD, he has worked as an independent consultant in a number of information security and smart card related projects. He has worked as a Multi-application smart card Manager in VISA International EU, responsible for multi-application smart card technology for southern Europe . More recently, he was working as a Senior Information Security Consultant for Steer Davies Gleave, responsible for advising transport operators and financial institutions on the use of smart card technology. He is also a member of the IFIP Working Group 8.8 on Smart Cards. He continues to act as a consultant on a variety of topics including smart card security, key management, information security protocols, mobile devices, smart card migration program planning/project management for financial institutions, transport operators and technology integrators.

Keith MartinProf. Dr. Keith Martin

Prof Keith Martin B.Sc. (Glasgow), PhD (London), CMath FIMA joined the Information Security Group as a lecturer in January 2000. He received his BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Glasgow in 1988 and a PhD from Royal Holloway in 1991. Between 1992 and 1996 he held a Research Fellowship in the Department of Pure Mathematics at the University of Adelaide, investigating mathematical modeling of cryptographic key distribution problems. In 1996 he joined the COSIC research group of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium where he was primarily involved in an EU ACTS project concerning security for third generation mobile communications. Keith’s current research interests include cryptography, key management and wireless sensor network security. Keith is also interested in e-learning and is a co-developer of the distance learning MSc Information Security.

Maria PapadakiDr. Maria Papadaki

Maria Papadaki is a lecturer in Network Security, at University of Plymouth, UK. Prior to joining academia, she was working as a Security Analyst for Symantec EMEA Managed Security Services (MSS), UK. Her postgraduate academic studies include a PhD in Intrusion Classification and Automated Response, and a MSc in Integrated Services and Intelligent Networks Engineering, both awarded from University of Plymouth, UK. Her research interests include intrusion prevention detection and response, network security monitoring, asset classification, threat management, security usability, and security education.

Ahmed PatelProf. Dr. Ahmed Patel

Ahmed PATEL received his MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 1978 and 1984 respectively, specialising in the theory, design, implementation and performance analysis of packet switched networks. He is a lecturer and consultant in IT, ITC and Computer Science. His research interests span topics concerning international networking and application standards, network security, forensic computing, high-speed networks, heterogeneous distributed computer systems and including distributed search engines and systems for the Web. He has been involved in various national and international R&D funded programmes such as IUN, HEIC, Teltec, Informatics, SFI, COSINE, COST, RARE, ESPRIT, VALUE, RACE, ACTS, INFOSEC, AIM, FALCONE, AGIS, TELEMATICS, INCO, etc. He has published well-over hundred and sixty technical and scientific papers and co-authored two books on computer network security and one book on group communications, co-edited a book distributed search systems for the Internet.

Günther PernulProf. Dr. Günther Pernul

Dr. Günther Pernul received both the diploma degree and the doctorate degree (with honours) from the University of Vienna, Austria. Currently he is full professor at the Department of Information Systems at the Universität Regensburg, Germany. Prior to that he held a similar position with the Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and a position as a senior researcher with the Department of Applied Computer Sciences at the University of Vienna, Austria. He held long-term visiting positions at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, and short-term teaching assignments at many different Universities across Europe. His research interests are information systems security, security infrastructures, and security in data centric applications. Günther Pernul has been active in many national and international research projects. Currently he and his research group are partner in the FP6 IST project Access-eGov and coordinator of the FP7 ICT project SPIKE. He also acted as coordinator of the IPICS 2008 summer school.

Karl PoschProf. Dr. Karl Posch

Dr. Karl C. Posch is professor at the Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications, Graz University of Technology, Austria. Since 2004 he has been serving as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science. He holds a master’s diploma in electrical engineering (1979) and a PhD in computer science (1988). He has been working in the industry leading a hardware design group in 1983/84, and was guest professor at the Denver University (Colorado, USA, 1988) and at the Memoriy University of St. Johns (Newfoundland, Canada, 1990/91). His research interests are microchip design and information security. In particular he is interested in smartcards and contactless technology.

Bart PreneelProf. Dr. Bart Preneel

Bart Preneel received the Doctorate in Applied Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) where he is currently a full professor. His main research interests are cryptography and information security. He is president of the IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cryptology and of the IEEE Transactions on Forensics and Information Security. He has participated to 25 research projects sponsored by the European Commission, for five of these as project manager. In 2003, he has received the European Information Security Award in the area of academic research. He has been a member of the TCPA Advisory Board. He is president of L-SEC vzw. (Leuven Security Excellence Consortium), an association of 60 companies and research institutions in the area of e-security.

Pierangela SamaratiProf. Dr. Pierangela Samarati

Pierangela Samarati is a Professor at the Department of Information Technology of the University of Milan. Her main research interests are data security and privacy, access control policies, models and systems, information system security, and information protection in general. She has participated in several projects involving different aspects of information protection. She has been Computer Scientist in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI, CA (USA). She is the chair of the Steering Committees of the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) and of the ACM Workshop on Security and Privacy (WPES). She is vice-chair of the ACM SIGSAC — Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control. She serves and has served in different capacities in various committees aimed at fostering research on security and privacy.

Theodore TryfonasDr. Theodore Tryfonas

Theo joined the University of Bristol’s Department of Civil Engineering in July 2008 as a Lecturer in Systems Engineering. He is a computer scientist by training with primary interests in security engineering and applications of computing in civil engineering systems – particularly wireless sensors and mobile technologies. Originally from Greece, he has worked in the past as a programmer, consultant and auditor for Greek and UK companies, particularly in the sectors of transportation, utilities, healthcare and government. His current research activity is focused on sustainable systems engineering and aspects of learning in higher education. He also works with the Bristol-Bath Centre in Systems where he teaches its research students and supervises a few of their doctoral projects. He holds a BSc degree from the University of Crete in Greece and a MSc and PhD degrees from Athens University of Economics and Business. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor and a Chartered Member of the British Computer Society. He sits on ISACA’s Academic Relations Committee and is an academic liaison officer for the IAAC and the BCS-IRMA SG. He is also a member of the BCS, IET and INCOSE. His published work extends to over 40 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and refereed conferences. He is married to Catherine and has a little daughter, Chrissa-Sophia. He enjoys football and he’s fascinated by church architectures. Further info on his personal page at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/civilengineering/person/t.tryfonas.html.

Mrs. Aggeliki Tsohou

Aggeliki Tsohou holds a Diploma in Informatics from the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Bussiness, Greece (1998). She also holds an M.Sc. in Information Systems from the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Bussiness, Greece (2004). She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Information and Communication Systems Security under the supervision of Prof. S. Kokolakis and Prof. S. Gritzalis, at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, School of Sciences, University of the Aegean, Greece. Aggeliki Tsohou has been involved in Greek Government funded R&D projects in the areas of Information and Communication Systems Security. Her interests include, among others, information systems security management, social and ethical aspects of information systems and information systems security, and security in virtual communities.