Information security - finding the right balance
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Professor Fred Piper - BSc PhD (London) CEng CMath FIEE ARCS DIC FIMA M.InstIISP
Professor Piper was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of London in 1975 and has worked in information security since 1979. In 1985, he formed a company, Codes & Ciphers Ltd, which offers consultancy advice in all aspects of information security. He has acted as a consultant to over 80 companies including a number of financial institutions and major industrial companies in the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia, South Africa and the USA.
His consultancy work has been varied and has included algorithm design and analysis, work on EFTPOS and ATM networks, data systems, security audits, risk analysis and the formulation of security policies.
He has lectured worldwide on information security, both academically and commercially. He has published more than 100 papers and is joint author of:
- Cipher Systems (1982), one of the first books to be published on the subject of protection of communications
- Secure Speech Communications (1985)
- Digital Signatures - Security & Controls (1999)
- Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction (2002).
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