Debi Ashenden

Debi is a Senior Research Fellow within the Defence College of Management and Technology at Cranfield University. Prior to taking up this post she was a Managing Consultant within QinetiQ’s Trusted Information Management Department (formerly the Defence Evaluation Research Agency). Specialising in information assurance in general, and risk assessment in particular, other specific areas of interest include building trust for information sharing, governance processes for information assurance and information security awareness. Debi has worked extensively across government, defence and the finance sector as a consultant and her work concentrates on understanding the role of individuals in ensuring that security risks are mitigated. Debi has had a number of articles on information security published, presented at a range of conferences and has co-authored a book for Butterworth Heinemann ‘Risk Management for Computer Security: Protecting Your Network & Information Assets’. Her current research examines the practice of information operations using discourse analysis.

Debi Ashenden

Dr Iain Sutherland

Dr. Iain Sutherland is a member of the Information Security Research Group and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Advanced Technology at the University of Glamorgan. He has been involved in a variety of research projects in the area of information security including secure XML transactions and reverse engineering metrics. Dr. Sutherland’s main field of interest is computer forensics. He currently maintains Glamorgan University’s Forensics Computing Laboratory, and has acted as a consultant and Expert Witness on civil and criminal cases.

Iain Sutherland

Dr Brian Collins

Professor Collins is Professor of Information Systems at DCMT, Cranfield University, Shrivenham. He has also recently been appointed as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department of Transport. His current interests centre on the design and engineering of structured, secure and dependable knowledge and information management processes and systems using next generation information and communications technology. He was an adviser to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee on ID Cards and was special adviser to the Home Office Select Committee on the same subject. He was technical adviser to the DTI on a Foresight Cybertrust and Crime Prevention project and has been an Associate Fellow of RIIA Chatham House on Future Global Security issues. He was International Director of Information Technology at Clifford Chance, Head of Information Systems at the Wellcome Trust and at GCHQ was Chief Scientist and Director of Science and Technology. He is a graduate of Oxford University. 

Brian Collins

Professor Martin Gill

Martin Gill is Director of Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International and a Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester. He has published over 100 journal and magazine articles and 11 books including Commercial Robbery, CCTV, and Managing Security and the Handbook of Security. He is co-editor of the Security Journal and founding editor of Risk Management: an International Journal. Professor Gill is a Fellow of The Security Institute, a member of the Risk and Security Management Forum, the Company of  Security Professionals (and therefore a Freeman of the City of London), the ASIS International Foundation Board, an overseas representative on the ASIS International Academic Programs Committee and the ASIS International Security Body of Knowledge Task Force. With PRCI colleagues he is currently involved with a range of projects related to different aspects of crime in organizations and private security, this includes shop theft, frauds, staff dishonesty, burglary reduction, robbery, the effectiveness of security measures, money laundering, policing, violence at work, to name but a few. He also led the Home Office national evaluation into the effectiveness of CCTV.

In his talk Professor Gill will assess offenders' perspectives on security. It is somewhat of a strange omission from research that offenders' views have only been rarely assessed. However this has been a preoccupation of Martin Gill. He has spent years looking at how offenders choose their targets, the skills sets they acquire and make us of that enable them to claim that crime is easy, their perspectives on different types of security measures and the ways in which they say they manage the risks; and their perspectives on getting caught. Martin has interviewed offenders in prison, conducted focus groups and taken them back to crime scenes to recreate their offences, he has filmed these and will play some clips from this work. He will argue that if we want to better prevent crime we will need to listen more carefully to a group of experts who are rarely heard but have a wealth of sharp end knowledge.

Martin Gill

Dr Andy Jones

Andy Jones has a background in Military intelligence and security research. After completing military service he ran the UK defence research IW group before moving to University to lecture on the subject and to the British Telecommunications Security Research Labs where he continues to carry out research in the area. He also holds a post as an adjunct at Edith Cowan University in Australia.

Andy Jones

David Llamas

David Llamas is a BSc (Honours) in Software Technology, who has focused his research interest on the art and science of hiding information and its implementation in the real world, from an historical perspective, from ancient ages to the present, and considering a wide range of disciplines, techniques and technologies. He scooped a ScotlandIS Software Engineer of the Year Award in 2004 for his research into hidden internet communications that could help fight terrorism. He is the administrator of the specialised websites http://www.steganography.org and http://www.covertchannels.org. David is currently completing his research project at the University of St Andrews, which is supported by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory - DSTL - a part of the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom. Further information can be found at http://kruptos.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk

David Llamas

Dr Jill Slay

Dr Jill Slay holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering, graduate diplomas in applied computing and further education and a PhD from Curtin University of Technology. She is a fellow of the Australian Computer Society and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional. With extensive teaching experience in the tertiary sector at undergraduate and postgraduate level, Jill is currently teaching IT Security and Forensic Computing courses in Australia and Asia and is supervising 11 honours students and 8 PhD students in these fields. She is carrying out collaborative research in Forensic Computing and IT Security with industry and government partners in Australia and leads the Enterprise Security Management Laboratory in the Advanced Computing Research Centre of the School of Computer and Information Science at the University of South Australia. She is also an affiliate faculty member at Idaho State University and is a Board Member of the newly formed Colloquium on Information Systems Security Education – Asia Pacific

Jill Slay