ISG Open Day June 22nd 2016
Professor Markantonakis is the lead organiser of the first ISG Open Day on June 22nd 2016.
The Open Day is designed to showcase our world leading Information Security department featuring presentations from current research students, exhibitions and demos, talks from ISG staff and keynote lectures from exciting guest speakers. There will be opportunities to network and engage in discussions with current professionals who are based here at Royal Holloway.
The event is sponsored by:
Thales, GSK, KPMG, Qinetic and Royal Holloway Enterprise
Dr Markantonakis is New Director of the Smart Card Centre
With effect from January 2016, Professor Konstantinos Markantonakis takes over as the Director of the Smart Card Centre
Mehari Msgna passes his PhD Viva
Congratulations to Dr Mehari Msgna, who successfully defended his PhD thesis and passed subject to minor corrections.
Stuart Atwood Prize at SCC Open Day 2015
At the SCC Open Day 2015, a special prize in memory of Stuart Atwood was awarded by MULTOS to MSc student Shreya Singh for her work on Secure Authentication in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET).
More details can be found on the MULTOS website.
Smart Card Centre Open Day 2015
A report of the day can be found here
Tremendous support for the Smart Card Centre Open Day 2014
There was tremendous support for the Smart Card Centre Open Day 2014!
A report of the Open Day is now available.
Publication of new Smart Card Centre Text Book
A new text book edited by Konstantinos Markantonakis and Keith Mayes has been published.
"Secure Smart Embedded Devices, Platforms and Applications".
More details can be found here.
ISG/SCC will host WISTP 2012 in June 2012.
The ISG/ Smart Card Centre (SCC) is proud to be selected as the host of the 6th Workshop in Information Security Theory and Practices (WISTP 2012). The event will be held in June 19-22 in Royal Holloway. The ISG Smart Card Centre (SCC) played a pivotal role (along with colleagues from France, Belgium and Greece) in bringing this workshop into existence. The workshop's steering committee has managed to make this event successful, recognised and equally important an event that bridges theory and practice in the field of Information Security. It is a testimony to this success that every year the conference presents a strong academic programme, the publisher for the conference proceedings is Springer and the event's programme committee along with the invited speakers are drawn from international experts in the field. Visit the WISTP website at (www.wistp.org)
Announcing a major research collaboration between the UK Cards Association and the Smart Card Centre (SCC)
The ISG Smart Card Centre and the UK Cards Association
The ISG is delighted to announce a research collaboration between The UK Cards Association and the Information Security Group Smart Card Centre (SCC) at Royal Holloway, University of London. The UK Cards Association has become a Member of the SCC and committed significant funding to the core research programme for, at least, the next three years. The collaboration is by no means just about funding as The UK Cards Association is the UK's card payments industry voice on a wide range of topics and it has a plethora of expertise and influence. The work aims to provide the opportunity for interested parties to be forewarned and better informed of practical attack scenarios that may affect card payment systems.
On the new collaboration, Dr. Konstantinos Markantonakis of the SCC, said:
"The research collaboration with The UK Cards Association is very exciting and it really comes at the right moment. The UK Cards Association brings a wealth of expertise and knowledge into the real world information security problems faced by the UK card payment industry. We believe that this expertise will blend nicely with our existing research thread on the issues of card based and mobile NFC payments, in an attempt to further explore both current and future risks with the ultimate goal of providing adequate countermeasures."
David Baker, Head of Cards Technical Unit, The UK Cards Association, responded:
"The UK Cards Association is thrilled to be associated with the Royal Holloway, University of London Information Security Group Smart Card Centre and look forward to a long and fruitful partnership. Card payments systems are evolving to meet the challenges of the digital age and it is essential that we remain on top of any new threats and vulnerabilities. By forging strong links with the SCC, who are already carrying out research in key areas of interest to the industry, we hope that together we can help shape a more secure future for card payments."
Announcing a major research collaboration between Orange Labs UK (Orange) and the Smart Card Centre (SCC) at Royal Holloway University of London
Smart Card Centre and Orange Labs UK
We are delighted to announce a research collaboration between Orange Labs UK (Orange) and the Information Security Group Smart Card Centre (SCC) at Royal Holloway University of London. Orange has become a Member of the SCC and committed significant funding to the core research programme for at least the next three years. Orange will also be the main sponsor of the SCC Open Day exhibition on the 6th September 2011. The collaboration is by no means just about funding as Orange Labs has a wealth of expertise and influence, and is already providing expert lecturers for the SCC MSc module as well as suggesting MSc projects and offering student internships. A sponsored PhD post will be offered in 2011, jointly supported by the SCC and Orange.
Keith Mayes, Director of the SCC
"The research collaboration with Orange Labs is very exciting and just ticks all the boxes. They have a lot of experts and access to latest technology; they are also actively engaged with our projects and students who they see as potential employees of the future. The added bonus is that Orange Labs is just along the road in Chiswick."
Francois-Xavier Lecarpentier. CTO Orange Labs UK
"We are pleased to be able to collaborate with the SCC and be associated with its reputation and activities. The SCC is a good match for some of our industry research objectives and it is very useful to have a local source of such well qualified students. I am looking forward to building on the relationship over the coming years."