Visiting Professors

Prof Henry Beker B.Sc. Ph.D. (London) B.A. (O.U.) C.Eng. MIEE FIMAi FREng founded Zergo Limited (which later became Baltimore Technologies plc) in 1988 and, as Chairman and Chief Executive, steered the company through listings on both sides of the Atlantic and presided over its phenomenal growth. Prior to this, Henry Beker was Managing Director of Racal-Guardata Ltd, having previously held positions of Head of Mathematics Department, Racal Comsec Ltd., and Technical Director at Racal Research Ltd.

In addition to providing security systems to a number of financial institutions world- wide, Henry Beker has also been very actively involved within various Standards bodies. This includes the American National Standards Institute's work on wholesale and retail banking and the Standards Association of Australia formulating their EFTPOS Standards. He is joint author of Cipher Systems (1982), one of the first books to be published on the subject of protection of communications, and Secure Speech Communications (1985). From 1987-89 he was Vice-President of the IMA, and was appointed President in 1998.

Having relinquished his roles at Baltimore Technologies plc of Chief Executive (in 1999) and Chairman (in 2000), Henry is now devoting more time to his academic, educational and business interests.. Henry is currently leading the e-Learning Foundation initiative to provide portable computers for every schoolchild in the UK and has been instrumental in engaging governmental interest. Henry is Chairman of OverNet Data, an interactive wireless data solutions provider. Henry is also a Non-Executive Director of i-net Venture Capital Trust plc, and of Close Finsbury Eurotech Trust plc.

Prof Whitfield Diffie BSc (MIT) Dr. sc. techn. (hc, ETH Zurich) Whitfield Diffie began his career in security as the inventor of the concept of public key cryptography, which underlies the security of Internet commerce. He has made fundamental contributions to many aspects of secure communications and was instrumental in the rise of a public cryptographic research community. In the 1990s he turned his attention to public policy and played a key role in opposing government key-escrow proposals and restrictive regulations on the export of products incorporating cryptography. Diffie recently retired from his position as Chief Security Officer at Sun Microsystems and is now studying the impact of web services and grid computing on security and intelligence. Prior to assuming his position at Sun, Diffie was Manager of Secure Systems Research at Northern Telecom throughout the 1980s. Diffie's is a fellow of the Marconi Foundation. He is the recipient of the National Computer Systems Security Award given jointly by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Security Agency, the Levy Prize of the Franklin institute, and other awards. His work and career are treated at length in the book Crypto by Steven Levy.

Prof Paul Dorey BSc. PhD. (Southampton) CISM M.Inst.ISP M.I.Biol has over 25 years management experience in information security gained as a senior security and risk executive at Morgan Grenfell/Deutsche Bank, Barclays Bank and BP. His work has encompassed information security management, operational risk management, business continuity planning and crisis management, privacy and the security of process control systems. Paul has consulted to several governments in protecting critical national infrastructure, was a founder of the Jericho Forum, and is the Chairman of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP). He currently sits as an independent expert on the Permanent Stakeholders Group of the European Network Information Security Agency (ENISA). His industry recognition includes being awarded Chief Security Officer of the Year (2006), IT Security Executive of the Year (2008) and his induction into the IT Security Hall of Fame (2009). His interests include the problem of establishing and communicating trust in IT systems, risk convergence (integrating IT Security with physical security and other risk disciplines) and demonstrating the value of security investment. In addition to his academic interests, he currently runs two consultancy firms specialising in developing commercial security strategies and building programmes to improve security team capability and knowledge sharing in the industry.

E-mail: paul.dorey [at] csoconfidential [dot] com

Prof Dieter Gollmann Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. (Linz) Dr.habil. (Karlsruhe) received his Dipl.-Ing. in Engineering Mathematics (1979) and Dr.techn. (1984) from the University of Linz, Austria, where he was a research assistant in the Department for System Science. He was a Lecturer in Computer Science at Royal Holloway and later a scientific assistant at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, where he also served as deputy head of the E.I.S.S. and was awarded the "venia legendi" for computer science in 1991. He rejoined Royal Holloway in 1990, initially as a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, subsequently as a Reader, and finally as a Professor. He was a Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Graz in 1991 and an Adjunct Professor at the Information Security Research Centre, QUT, Brisbane, in 1995. He has contributed to national and European projects in the areas of dependable communications and computing. He has been acting as a consultant for HP Laboratories (Bristol). He has been serving on the program committees of the major European conferences on computer security (ESORICS), and cryptography (EUROCRYPT) as well as other international conferences in these areas. Currently, Dieter Gollmann is at Microsoft Research based in Cambridge (UK).

Prof David Naccache VP Research & Innovation, Gemplus, received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris. David managed for several years Gemplus' Applied Research & Security Centre (70 researchers), published 60 papers in information security and cryptography, filed 60 patents and served in nearly 40 program committees. Amongst David's most noteworthy results are attacks against the signature standards ISO 9796-1 (the attack led to the withdrawal of this standard) and ISO 9796-2 (the attack led to an amendment of this standard) and PKCS#1 v1.5. David is an information security lecturer at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) since 1996 and is an advisory professor at the Beijing Jiaotong University, China. His current areas of interest are number theory, public key cryptography and side channel attacks.

E-mail: David.Naccache [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk

Prof Richard Walton B.Sc. Ph.D (Nottingham) B.A. (Open University) CMath FIMA Professor Richard Walton CB B.Sc. Ph.D. (Nottingham) B.A. (O.U.) C.Math. C.Eng. FIMA MBCS FIET MInstISP received his B.Sc. (Hons) and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Nottingham in 1968 and 1971 respectively. He studied with the Open University during the 1980's taking mainly Electronics courses and received his B.A. (Hons) in 1987. From 1971-1973 he was a lecturer in Mathematics at the North Staffordshire Polytechnic before joining GCHQ as a Mathematician at the end on 1973. He was appointed Companion of the order of the Bath (CB) in the 2003 New Year Honours. His GCHQ career culminated in his appointment in January 1999 to the GCHQ Board as Director CESG, the National Technical Authority for Information Assurance. He held this post until October 2002 when he was seconded to the Cabinet Office to initiate work on the production of a National Strategy on Information Assurance. His earlier posts included Head of the Division employing most of the GCHQ Mathematicians (1996-1999) and Head of the Mathematical Services Group in CESG (1985-1991). In the 1980s he initiated many of the changes in CESG's public profile as they started to engage in open fora, both national and international, during the early stages of the development of open standards for computer security. He was the first member of GCHQ to attend open cryptographic conferences (Eurocrypt in 1982, Crypto in 1985). His actions were instrumental in achieving the change of GCHQ policy to publish the early CESG work on Public Key Cryptography. He retired from the Civil Service in May 2003 and undertakes occasional consultancy through his own company, Walton-Mackenzie Ltd. Since retirment, he has published several papers on topics concerned with information security and serves on the IT policy panel of the IET. He was appointed as an independent member of the Defence Scientific Advisory Council in April 2004.

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