Welcome to the Information Security Group
The ISG is one of the largest academic security groups in the world. It brings together in a single institution expertise in education, research and practice in the field of information security.
The ISG offers an active research environment. It has a thriving PhD community, and offers world-leading masters degree programmes (campus-based and online), as well as postgraduate diploma programmes in information security. The ISG also includes the Smart Card Centre of Excellence which it founded with Vodafone and Giesecke & Devrient.
Epic cycle ride by academic raises £4,000 for Cancer Research
Dr Keith Mayes, Director of the ISG Smart Card Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London, has completed a solo unsupported cycle ride between Land’s End and John O’Groats – covering more than 1,000 miles.
ISG Smart Card Centre attracts industry funding to develop innovative security measures
Dr Keith Mayes, Director of the Smart Card Centre, at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been awarded £50,000 by the PARK commercialisation fund to lead the development of an RFID/smartcard attack detector product prototype, with Dr Gerhard Hancke as the lead developer.
Professor Chris Mitchell to receive this year's International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 1906 Award
Chris has been selected to receive this year's International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 1906 Award. This is a very prestigious award that recognises exceptional contributions to the work of the IEC. He will receive the award at the British Electrotechnical Commission's AGM on the 12th November 2010 at the Institution of Engineering and Technology in London. Further details of the award are available at http://www.iec.ch/about/awards/ .
Whitfield Diffie, Martin E. Hellman and Ralph C. Merkle to receive 2010 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
Public Key Cryptography Makes Secure Communication over the Internet Possible
PISCATAWAY, N.J., 17 June 2010 – Whitfield Diffie, Martin E. Hellman and Ralph C. Merkle, engineers whose development of public key cryptography revolutionized the field and provided the security needed to enable safe commercial applications of the Internet, are being honored by IEEE with the 2010 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal. IEEE is the world’s largest professional association advancing technology for humanity.
Alumni Reunion Conference 2010
We are pleased to confirm that the second ISG Alumni Reunion Conference will be going ahead on the 5th 6th and 7th of July 2010. Registrations for the conference can be made at RHUL online store.
European Trusted Infrastructure Summer School
The ISG is hosting the 5th European Trusted Infrastructure Summer School, ETISS 2010. The event will be held in September and is open to all researchers in IT security who are keen to learn more about trusted infrastructure. Topics to be covered include Trusted Computing, machine virtualization, new hardware architectures, and new network security architectures. Student bursaries are available for masters and PhD students wishing to attend.
For more information, please visit the ISG ETISS page .