Manfred Aigner

Manfred Aigner graduated from a technical college for communication and electronics; afterwards he studied Telematics at the Graz University of Technology with special emphasis on integrated circuits. Since 2003, he has been responsible for the research activities of the VLSI and Security group at the IAIK. His special interest is on efficient hardware implementation of cryptographic algorithms and side-channel analysis as well as security concepts for the Internet of Things. Manfred is steering committee member of RFIDSec and RFIDSecAsia.

 

David 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 (ISSRG) and a member of IEEE and ACM. David has published widely, with over 120 publications, and 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. He actively participates in standardisation activities, is the UK BSI representative to X.509 standards meetings, the chair of the Open Grid Forum OGSA Authorisation Working Group, and the author of a number of Internet Drafts, RFCs and OGF documents.

 

Ludwig FuchsLudwig Fuchs

Dr. Ludwig Fuchs studied Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik) at the University of Regensburg, Germany and completed his dissertation in the area in 2009. In between 2004 and 2009 he studied and researched at the University of York (UK) and the University of Texas (San Antonio, USA) together with well-known academics in the field of IT security. His main research interest comprises Identity Management within mid-sized and large organizations. Over the last five years, Dr. Ludwig Fuchs gathered practical and academic experience and published the results at several international IT security conferences. His expert knowledge has additionally been underlined throughout his work in several industry projects, bridging the gap between practical requirements and latest academic research results.

 

Steven FurnellSteven 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 HebbesLuke 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.

 

Hans Hedbom

Hans Hedbom has been a lecturer at Karlstad University for the last 15 years and is a member of the PriSec research group at the computer science department. His primary research interests are in the area of privacy and transparency enhancing technologies but he has also done some research within the area of security in distributed systems and intrusion detection. He has been active in the European projects FIDIS, PRIME and PrimeLife within the privacy area. He is also active in the area of standardization regarding privacy and identity management and is a member of the ISO/TMB Privacy Steering Committee.

 

Dominik Herrmann

Dominik is working as Research and Teaching Assistant at the Chair for Management of IT Security at University of Regensburg, Germany, since 2008. Among other courses he is instructor in a practical IT security lab course. His research focuses on the application of machine learning techniques for traffic analysis. Previously, he worked for Deutsche Bank
in the IT security risk reporting domain.

 

Maria Karyda

Dr Maria Karyda holds a B.Sc. in Informatics, a M.Sc. in Information Systems and a PhD in Information Systems Security Management from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. She is currently a Lecturer with the University of the Aegean, Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering. Her research interests include organizational aspects of information systems security management, privacy protection, computer crime, digital forensics and security culture and awareness issues. She has collaborated with several education institutes, including the Athens University of Economics and Business, the University of the Aegean and the Technical Institute of Athens, public organizations, including the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Institute of Social Security (IKA), the General Hospital of Nikaia, the Greek Archaeological Receipts Fund, the Athens Water Supply & Sewerage Company, the General Secretariat of Social Security and private companies, including INFO-QUEST and the Greek Lottery S.A. She has also participated in national and EU funded R&D projects, such as the SERENITY and the e-VOTE project (EU / IST Programmes), DAMES-T (General Secretariat for Research and Technology), PYTHAGORAS (Greek Ministry of Education / EPEAEK Programme). Her published work includes several referreed papers in international journals and conferences, as well as six chapters in books. She has also served as a reviewer for international journals and has participated in the programme and organizing committees of several international conferences in the area of information systems and information security. She is a member of the ACM, IEEE, AIS and the Greek Computer Society.

 

Christos Kalloniatis

Dr. Christos Kalloniatis holds a bachelor degree from the Department of Informatics of the Technological Institute of Athens (2000). In 2001 he took his master degree on Computer Science from the University of Essex, UK. In 2008 he finished his PhD at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the University of the Aegean. The objective of his PhD was the protection of privacy during the design of Information Systems. From 2003 he teaches as an Adjunct Lecturer (407/80) at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the University of the Aegean. He is also working in the Ministry of Interior. He is an author of several refereed papers in international scientific journals and conferences. He is a member of ACM and IEEE.

 

Vasilis Katos

Vasilios Katos is Assistant Professor of Information Communications Systems Security at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Democritus University of Thrace in Greece. Prior to his current post he was Principal Lecturer at the School of Computing at the University of Portsmouth where he participated in the development of the inter-disciplinary Masters course MSc in Forensic IT. He has worked in the industry as a security consultant and expert witness in information systems security. His research interests are in information security, privacy, digital forensics and incident response.

 

Sokratis KatsikasSokratis 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.

 

Spyros Kokolakis

Dr. Spyros KOKOLAKIS is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean. He holds a B.Sc. (Informatics) and a Ph.D. (Information Systems) from the Athens University of Economics & Business (GR). He has been involved in several national and EU-funded R&D projects in the area of Information and Communication Systems Security. He is an author of several refereed papers in international scientific journals and conferences. He is a member of ACM and IEEE.

 

Costas LambrinoudakisCostas 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 LopezJavier 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 indutrial sector, and in 1994 he
joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Malaga,
where he actually is Full Professor. His research activities are mainly
focused on information and network security, leading some Spanish and EU research projects in those areas. 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 Chair of ERCIM's Working Group on Security and Trust Management.

 

Christer Magnusson

Dr. Christer Magnusson is Senior Lecture at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, specialized in IS/IT Security and IS/IT Risk Management. Before joining SecLab, Christer was Head of Corporate Security and Risk Manager at Sweden Post and CEO of Sweden Post Insurance AB and Sweden Post Reinsurance S.A. He has also held the position as Head of Corporate Security in the Ericsson group.

 

Konstantinos MarkantonakisKonstantinos 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.

 

George Pangalos

He has a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and a and a Doctor’s degree in Informatics from the University of London. Currently he is a professor of Informatics and Information Security at the University of Thessaloniki and director of the Informatics and Information Security laboratory of the same faculty. His interests include the areas of information systems design, information systems security, and health information systems. He has published over 150 articles in scientific journals. He has written 11 books on IT subjects (in Greek) and participated in 12 international books (in English). He has also been involved as project leader-expert in a significant number (more than 30) major Greek and international projects in the above areas. He has been president of the Greek Computer Society (NG), president of the European computer users association, vice president of the Greek Medical Informatics Association, etc. He has also participated as an expert in the selection and progress monitoring of several EU projects.

 

Maria PapadakiMaria 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. Dr Papadaki is a GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst, and is a member of the British Computer Society. Further details can be found at www.plymouth.ac.uk/cscan

 

Günther PernulGünther 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.

 

Bart PreneelBart 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.

 

Gerald Quirchmayr

Gerald Quirchmayr holds doctors degrees in computer science and law from Johannes Kepler University in Linz (Austria) and currently is Professor at the Department of Distributed and Multimedia Systems at the University of Vienna. In 2001/2002 he held a Chair in Computer and Information Systems at the University of South Australia. He first joined the University of Vienna in 1993 from the Institute of Computer Science at Johannes Kepler University in Linz (Austria) where he had previously been teaching. In 1989/1990 he taught at the University of Hamburg (Germany). His wide international experience ranges from the participation in international teaching and research projects, very often UN- and EU-based, several research stays at universities and research centres in the US and EU Member States to extensive teaching in EU staff exchange programs in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Spain, and Greece, as well as teaching stays in the Czech Republic and Poland. International teaching and specialist missions include UN-coordinated activities in Egypt, Russia and the Republic of Korea. He has served as a member of program committees of many international conferences, chaired several of them, has contributed as reviewer to scientific journals and has also served on editorial boards. He is a member of the Austrian and German computer societies and a member of IFIP working groups. For his contributions to the international IT community he was received the IFIP Silver Core Award in 1995. His major research focus is on information systems in business and government with a special interest in security, applications, formal representations of decision making and legal issues. His publication record comprises over 100 peer reviewed papers plus several edited books and conference proceedings as well as nationally and internationally published project reports. In July 2002 he was appointed as Adjunct Professor at the School of Computer and Information Science of the University of South Australia. Since January 2005 he heads the Department of Distributed and Multimedia Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, at the University of Vienna.


Rodrigo Romanrodrigo

Dr. Rodrigo Roman (roman@lcc.uma.es) is a postdoctoral researcher working at the University of Malaga, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science on 2008. Previously, between 2003 and 2005, he worked at the Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R) in Singapore on the topic of Sensor Network Security, which is nowadays his primary research area. At present, he is also focusing on Security for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing and in Critical Information Infrastructure Protection. Dr. Roman has participated in various Spanish and international research projects in those areas, including projects in the FP6 and FP7 European Programmes.

 

Pierangela SamaratiPierangela 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.

 

Florian Scheuer

Florian Scheuer studied Business Information Systems with a focus on IT security at the University of Regensburg and graduated with a "Diplom" in March 2008. Since then he is research assistant of Prof. Dr. Hannes Federrath at the chair "Management of Information Security" at the University of Regensburg. He currently works on his PhD thesis in the
field of security and privacy in vehicular ad hoc networks.

 

Theodore TryfonasTheodore Tryfonas

Dr Theo Tryfonas (MBCS CITP, MIET, CISA) is a lecturer in systems
engineering at the University of Bristol. The majority of his past and
current work focuses on security engineering and sustainable systems. His particular interests include risk analysis and penetration testing,
protection of critical infrastructures, urban information infrastructures,
applications of wireless sensors, sustainability modelling and pedagogy of higher education. Before becoming an academic he held various posts in industry including working as a software engineer for Ulysses Systems and an IT auditor for Ernst & Young. He holds a PhD in secure systems engineering from Athens University of Economics and Business, a master's in Information systems from the same institution and a bachelor's in computer science from the University of Crete.

 

Aggeliki Tsohou

Dr. Aggeliki Tsohou holds a Diploma in Informatics and a M.Sc. in Information Systems from the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece She also holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems Security Management from the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, 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, information security awareness methodologies and practices, and standardization and security standards.

 

Edgar Weippl

Edgar R. Weippl (CISSP, CISA, CISM) is Research Director of Secure Business Austria and Priv.-Doz. at the Vienna University of Technology. His research focuses on applied concepts of IT-security and e-learning. Edgar is member of the steering committee of the ED-MEDIA conference; he organizes the ARES conference (as PC chair 2007, 08; panel and workshop chair 2009). 

After graduating with a Ph.D. from the Vienna University of Technology, Edgar worked for two years in a research startup. He then spent one year teaching as an assistant professor at Beloit College, WI. From 2002 to 2004, while with the software vendor ISIS Papyrus, he worked as a consultant for an HMO (Empire BlueCross BlueShield) in New York, NY and Albany, NY, and for Deutsche Bank (PWM) in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2004 he joined the Vienna University of Technology and founded together with A Min Tjoa and Markus Klemen the research center Secure Business Austria.

 

Chris Wills

Chris Wills is the Director of The Centre for Applied Research in Information Systems at Kingston University in London. He was educated in the UK, at the universities of Oxford and Brunel and has worked for a number of years as a Management Consultant. His research interests include the analysis of complex human activity systems and he worked in this field for a number of years for the Royal Navy. Latterly, he has undertaken research in software reliability and software process models on behalf of some of the world‘s largest rail and metro companies. Chris is a member of The City of London‘s Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and is a Freeman of The City of London.

 

 

Christos Xenakis

Dr. Christos Xenakis received his B.Sc degree in computer science in 1993 and his M.Sc degree in telecommunication and computer networks in 1996, both from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece. In 2004 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Athens (Department of Informatics and Telecommunications). From 1998 – 2001 he was with a Greek telecoms system development firm, where he was involved in the design and development of advanced telecommunications subsystems. From 1996 – 2007 he was a member of the Communication Networks Laboratory of the University of Athens. Currently, he is a lecturer (faculty of the Department of Digital Systems) and a member of the System Security Laboratory of the University of Piraeus, Greece. He has participated in numerous projects realized in the context of EU Programs and his research interests are in the field of system and network security.