Ross Anderson is Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University. He is one of the founders of a vigorously-growing new discipline: the economics of information security. Many security failures can be traced to wrong incentives rather than technical errors, and the application of microeconomic theory has shed new light on many problems that were previously considered intractable. The work is particularly important for understanding fraud and online liability. It is also giving insights into system safety and dependability, and into more traditional security problems of interest to law enforcement and the insurance industry. This multidisciplinary approach is now spilling over into psychology and anthropology.

Ross also made seminal contributions to peer-to-peer systems; hardware tamper-resistance; emission security; copyright marking; crypto protocols; and the security of APIs. He was a coauthor of Serpent, a finalist in the competition to find an Advanced Encryption Standard. Other papers document the failures of real world systems, including automatic teller machines, prepayment meters and medical record systems. He chairs the Foundation for Information Policy Research, the main UK think-tank on internet and technology policy issues. He is a Fellow of the IET and the IMA, and wrote the definitive book 'Security Engineering -- A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems'.

For further information please see Professor Andersons website:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/