Ross Anderson leads the security group at the Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University, where he is Reader in Security Engineering. He is a Fellow of both the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He has well known research publications on a number of security applications including medical privacy and banking systems, as well as on the underlying technologies such as cryptography and tamper resistance. He is the author of the definitive book Security Engineering — A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems. He also chairs the Foundation for Information Policy Research, Europe's premier information policy think-tank.

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