| Description | Professor Ross Anderson, Personal Chair in Security Engineering, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
Ross Anderson is a pioneer and world leader in security engineering, and is distiinguished for starting a number of new areas of research in hardware, software and systems.
His early work on how systems fail established a base of empirical evidence for building threat models for a wide range of applications from banking to healthcare.
He has made trailblazing contributions that helped establish a number of new reesearch topics, including security usability, hardware tamper-resistance, information hiding, and the analysis of application programming interfaces.
He is also one of the founders of the study of information security economics, which not only illuminates where the most effective attacks and defences may be found, but is also of fundamental importance to making policy for the information society. |