Steven Furnell (University of Plymouth, UK)

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). 

Konstantinos Markantonakis (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

Konstantinos Markantonakis 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 the Director of the Information Security Group Smart Card Centre (SCC). His main research interests include smart card security and applications, secure cryptographic protocol design, key management, embedded system security and trusted execution environments, mobile phone operating systems/platform security, NFC/RFID security, grouping proofs, and Internet-of-Things (IoT). He has published more than 160 papers in international conferences and journals. He is also a member of the IFIP Working Group 8.8 on Smart Cards. Since June 2014, he is vice chair of IFIP WG 11.2 Pervasive Systems Security. 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. 

David T. Croasdell (University of Nevada, NV)

David T. Croasdell, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and the Charles and Ruth Hopping Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is Chairman of the Department of Information Systems as well as Chairman of the International Activities Committee and University Athletics Committee. Dr. Croasdell is also a local business owner and the Director for the Sontag Entrepreneurship Competition at UNR. He is co-chair of the research track on Knowledge Systems for the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences and an Associate Editor of three academic journals. His research interests are in Knowledge Equity and Distributed Knowledge Systems, Knowledge Networks, Knowledge Management, Organizational Memory, and Inquiring Organizations. Before embarking on his academic career, Dr. Croasdell worked as a technical staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Nathan Clarke (University of Plymouth, UK)

Prof Clarke is a Professor of Cyber Security and Digital Forensics at Plymouth University. Prof Clarke is also an adjunct Professor at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. His research interests reside in the area of information security, biometrics, forensics and intrusion detection and has over 150 outputs consisting of journal papers, conference papers, books, edited books, book chapters and patents. He is the Chair of the IFIP TC11.12 Working Group on the Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance. Prof Clarke is a chartered engineer, a fellow of the British Computing Society (BCS) and a senior member of the IEEE and the author of Transparent Authentication: Biometrics, RFID and Behavioural Profiling published by Springer and Computer Forensics: A Pocket Guide published by IT Governance.

Vasilios Katos (Bournemouth University, UK)

Vasilios Katos obtained a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Democritus University of Thrace in Greece, an MBA from Keele University in the UK and a PhD in Computer Science (network security and cryptography) from Aston University. He is a certified Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI). Dr. Katos has worked in the Industry as Information Security Consultant and served as an expert witness in Information Security for a criminal court in the UK and a misdemeanor court in Greece. His research falls in the area of digital forensics and incident response. He has participated in 2 FP7 and 3 nationally funded research projects and in a number of national and international cyberdefence exercises. He has over 80 publications in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings and serves as a referee on several reputable conferences and journals (for example, IEEE Communications Letters, Computers & Security, Information and Computer Security), has coordinated and delivered a number of workshops, both in an academic and a security professionals context. He is member of the editorial board of Computers & Security. In terms of recognition of his research, he has received keynote speech invitations for international conferences (indicatively, the 8th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security) and his research has been addressed by reputable magazines such as the New Scientist.

Günther Pernul (University of Regensburg, DE)

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.

Ludwig Fuchs (University of Regensburg, DE)

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.

Christos Xenakis (University of Piraeus, GR)

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. Since 2007 he is a faculty member of the Department of Digital Systems of the University of Piraeus, Greece, where currently is an Assistant Professor and member of the System Security Laboratory. He has participated in numerous projects realized in the context of EU Programs (ACTS, ESPRIT, IST, AAL, DGHOME, Marie Curie) as well as National Programs (Greek) and his research interests are in the field of systems, networks and applications security. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 journal, book chapters and conference proceedings publications in his areas of interest.

Bart Preneel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE)

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.

Maria Karyda (University of the Aegean, GR)

Maria was born and raised in Athens, Greece. She holds a B.Sc. in Informatics, an M.Sc. in Information Systems and a PhD in Information Systems Security Management from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Informatics. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the University of the Aegean, Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering. 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 referred papers in international journals and conferences, as well as five 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. Her research interests include organizational aspects of information systems security management, privacy protection in digital social networks and security culture and awareness. She is a member of the ACM, IEEE, AIS and the Greek Computer Society.

Spyros Kokolakis (University of the Aegean, GR)

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.

Sokratis Katsikas (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO & University of Piraeus, GR) 

Sokratis K. Katsikas was born in Athens, Greece, in 1960. He 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 of the Dept. of Digital Systems of the University of Piraeus, Greece, member of the pool of experts of the Institutional Evaluation Programme of the European University Association and member of the Steering Committee of the same programme. He has been the Rector (2003-2006) and Vice-Rector (1997-2003) of the University of the Aegean, member of the Board of the Hellenic Quality Assurance Authority for Higher Education (2006-2008), member of the Board of the Hellenic Authority for Information and Communication Security and Privacy (2008-2009), Vice-President of the Panhellenic Federation of University Faculty Members (2009), the National Representative of Greece to the Management Committee of the 7th EU R&D Framework Programme "People" (2007-2009), the General Secretary for Communications of the Ministry of Infrastructures, Transport and Networks of the Hellenic Republic (2009-2012), member of the Committee for Information and Communication Technologies of the Greek Government (2011-2012) and Chairman of the Technical Advisory Board on Information and Communication Technologies projects of the Ministry of Administrative Reform and Electronic Government (2011-2012). His research interests lie in the areas of information and communication systems security and of estimation theory and its applications. He has authored or co-authored more than 230 journal publications, book chapters and conference proceedings publications and he has participated in more than 60 funded national and international R&D projects in these areas. He is serving on the editorial board of several scientific journals, he has authored/edited 26 books and has served on/chaired the technical programme committee of more than 300 international scientific conferences.

Theo Tryfonas (University of Bristol, UK)

Dr Theo Tryfonas is a Reader in Smart Cities, with a background in systems engineering and cybersecurity. His research focusses on energy efficient deployments of wireless sensor networks, secure and resilient operation of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, privacy in mobile computing, and open data architectures for smart buildings and infrastructure. He is also interested in science and technology policy. He is currently co-investigator of projects REPLICATE (€25m EU H2020, smart technology development for low carbon economies, http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2015/october/smart-city.html) and FLOURISH (£5.5m InnovateUK, cybersecurity and certification of connected autonomous vehicles, http://www.flourishmobility.com). Previously he coordinated the project ForToo (~€1m HOME DG, 2012-15) and led the Bristol contribution to the 5m Eur FP7 project RERUM (https://ict-rerum.eu). His research project portfolio includes additional work of ~£5m total value. He is an associate member of the All-Party Parliament Group Smart Cities and an expert adviser of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)

Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, ES)

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.

Costas Lambrinoudakis (University of Piraeus, GR)

Costas Lambrinoudakis holds a B.Sc. (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) from the University of Salford (1985), an M.Sc. (Control Systems) from the University of London (Imperial College -1986), and a Ph.D. (Computer Science) from the University of London (Queen Mary and Westfield College – 1991). Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece. From 1998 until 2009 he has held teaching position with the University of the Aegean, Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, Greece. His current research interests are in the areas of Information and Communication Systems Security and of Privacy Enhancing Technologies. He is an author of more than 85 scientific publications in refereed international journals, books and conferences, most of them on ICT security and privacy protection issues. He has served as program committee chair of 12 international scientific conferences and as a member on the program and organizing committees in more than 150 others. Also he participates in the editorial board of two international scientific journals and he acts as a reviewer for more than 35 journals. He has been involved in many national and EU funded R&D projects in the area of Information and Communication Systems Security. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE.

Jaap-Henk Hoepman (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL)

Jaap-Henk Hoepman studied computer science at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands, and obtained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam based on work done at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI). For several years he worked for the security group of KPN Research, the research division of one of the main Dutch telcos. He then returned to academia as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Twente. From 2006 to 2013 he was senior scientist in the security group of TNO ICT, Groningen. Currently he is an associate professor at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences of the Radboud University Nijmegen. He is also scientific director of the Privacy and Identity Lab. His research interests focus on privacy by design, and privacy friendly protocols for identity management and the Internet of Things. He also maintain a blog covering his research and activities.

Christos Kalloniatis  (University of the Aegean, GR)

Dr. Christos Kalloniatis holds a PhD from the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the University of the Aegean and a master degree on Computer Science from the University of Essex, UK. Currently he is an assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the University of the Aegean. He is also a deputy member of the board of the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy. His main research interests are the elicitation, analysis and modelling of security and privacy requirements in traditional and cloud-based systems, Privacy Enhancing Technologies and the design of Information System Security and Privacy in Cultural Informatics. He is an author of several refereed papers in international scientific journals and conferences and has served as a visiting professor in many European Institutions. Prior to his academic career he has served at various places on the Greek public sector including the North Aegean Region and Ministry of Interior, Decentraliastion and e-Governance. He is a lead-member of the Cultural Informatics research group as well as the privacy requirements research group in the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the University of the Aegean and has a close collaboration with the Laboratory of Information & Communication Systems Security of the University of the Aegean. He has served as a member of various development and research projects.

Haralambos Mouratidis (University of Brighton, UK)

Haralambos (Haris) Mouratidis is Professor of Software Systems Engineering at the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, at the University of Brighton, U.K. He holds a B.Eng. (Hons) from the University of Wales, Swansea (UK), and a M.Sc. and PhD from the University of Sheffield (UK). He is also Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Professional Member of the British Computer Society (BCS). Haris has been a visiting researcher at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan, and a visiting fellow at the British Telecom (BT), U.K and the University College London, U.K. He is visiting professor at the University of the Aegean, Greece. His research interests lie in the area of secure software systems engineering, requirements engineering, and information systems development. He is interested in developing methodologies, modelling languages, ontologies, tools and platforms to support the analysis, design, monitoring of security, privacy, risk and trust for large-scale complex software systems. He has published more than 130 papers (h-index 21) and he has secured funding as Principal Investigator from national (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Royal Academy of Engineering, Technology Strategy Board (TSB)) and international (EU, NII) funding bodies as well as industrial funding (British Telecom, ELC, Powerchex, FORD) towards his research. His “Powerchex KTP” project was finalist for the best 2012 UK National Knowledge Transfer Partnership TSB award. He has acted as evaluator for national and international funding bodies (e.g. EPSRC, HEA, and EU) and invited subject expert for organisations (e.g. TSB, NATO). He is member of the ERCIM Security and Trust Management Working Group and of the IFIP Working Group 8.1: Design and Evaluation of Information Systems. He was editor in chief of the International Journal of Computer Science and Security and he is currently editor in Chief of the International Journal of Agent Oriented Software Engineering. He is on the editorial boards of the Requirements Engineering Journal and the International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design and he has been involved in the organization of various events related to his research interests. He was the General co-Chair of CAiSE’14.

Pierangela Samarati (Universita' degli Studi di Milano, IT)

Pierangela Samarati is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Universita' degli Studi di Milano. 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. On these topics she has published more than 230 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. She has been Computer Scientist in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI, CA (USA). She has been a visiting researcher at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University, CA (USA), and at the Center Center for Secure Information System of George Mason University, VA (USA). She is the chair of the IEEE Systems Council Technical Committee on Security and Privacy in Complex Information Systems (TCSPCIS), of the Steering Committees of the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), and of the ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES). She is member of several steering committees.  She is ACM Distinguished Scientist (named 2009) and IEEE Fellow (named 2012).  She has been awarded the IFIP TC11 Kristian Beckman award (2008) and the IFIP WG 11.3 Outstanding Research Contributions Award (2012).

Edgar Weippl (Vienna University of Technology, AT)

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.

Christopher Wills (CARIS Research Ltd, UK)

Chris Wills is a founder member and Director of CARIS Research Ltd. Prior to which, he was the Director of The Centre for Applied Research in Information Systems at Kingston University London. Chris has managed and undertaken information systems and computing research and consulting projects, on behalf of a range of organisations including the Defence Evaluation Research Agency, the UK’s MOD’s Tri-Services, the Police Service, the Health Service, the Department for Transport and The Mass Transit Railway Corporation of Hong Kong.  His specialist area of interest is that of Socio-Technical Systems Design, where great emphasis is placed on creating the optimal interaction between users and the application of ICT. He also specialises in software process in safety critical systems and it is in this area of computing systems that he has undertaken work for the Royal Navy, scoping the design of warship command and control systems. Chris is a Freeman of the City of London and is a Liveryman of the City of London’s Worshipful Company of Information Technologists.

 Luis Landeiro Ribeiro (PDMFC, PT)

Luis Landeiro Ribeiro studied computer science at the Technical University of Lisbon (Instituto Superior Tecnico) where received his Masters degree. He leads the Security Monitoring at Vodafone Portugal, where the main focus is to prevent, mitigate and deal with cyber attacks. This includes managing the team that deals with DDoS, forensic analysis on compromised machines, reviewing and setting up security alerts on Splunk / RSA, uses Tuffin to manage Firewall rules, reviews Symantec Endpoint Protection Logs to ensure no machine has persistent known infections. Review bluecoat logs to identify infected machines (connecting to botnets or malicious urls), monitor Checkpoint consoles to track on on-going attacks, engage with Arbor Team to block DDoS. He also co-leads the Cybersecurity and Intelligence Division at PDMFC and participates in the Horizon2020 security project ASGARD as solution architect and Data Anonymization specialist. He is the main developer of several of the security tools developed by PDMFC and frequently participates in Capture the Flag events. 

Fransisco Loureiro (PDMFC, PT)

Fransisco Loureiro studied computer science at the Technical University of Lisbon (Instituto Superior Tecnico) where received his Masters degree. Throughout his career he has work in projects using a multitude of technologies and solutions, ranging from public key infrastructure for very large public and private customers, Security Information and Events Management, Intelligence solutions such as i2 for multiple Law Enforcement Agencies. He is a Certified ISO27001 Lead Implementer. He currently leads the Information Security team at PDMFC involved in implementing several high profile projects for the different branches of government. He also co-leads the Cybersecurity and Intelligence Division at PDMFC and participates in the Horizon2020 security project ASGARD as Intelligent Solutions specialist. He is the main architect of the BIAS platform, that deals with Fraud Prevention and Detection (ex: Anti Money Laundry, Financial transactions, Insurance frauds), Criminal Investigation (ex: Crime analysis, Criminal Case Management) and Cyber security and Cyber defence (ex: CSIRTs support tool, Risk analysis, Situational Awareness)

Christoforos Ntantogian (University of Pireaus, GR)

Christoforos Ntantogian received his B.Sc degree in computer science in 2004 and his M.Sc degree in Advanced Information Systems in 2006, both from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece. In 2009 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Athens (Department of Informatics and Telecommunications). From 2004 - 2010 he was a Research Associate in the Communication Networks Laboratory of the University of Athens. From 2011 to present, he is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Digital Systems of the University of Piraeus, Greece, and a member of the System Security Laboratory. He has participated in numerous projects realized in the context of EU Programs (FP7, AAL, DGHOME, H2020) as well as National Programs (Greek) and his research interests are in the field of software and network security. He has authored or co-authored more than 20 journal, book chapters and conference proceedings publications in his areas of interest.