📢 Check out our 2024 - 2025 Annual Review! There's a range of pieces from academics in the ISG exploring our research, including introductions to new members of faculty! You can also explore our back catalogue to 2006 - 2007! www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

📢 We are hosting the first South East & London Regional Seminar on behalf of CRANE at @royalholloway.bsky.social, supported by our own Dr Fauzia Idrees. When: Wednesday 12 November, 5pm - 6pm Where: Hybrid, Shilling Lecture Theatre More information ⬇️ www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

📢 Our own Dr Saqib Kakvi has provided expert comment to a range of media following last month's cloud services outages from AWS and Microsoft Azure. Find out more ⬇️ www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

📢 Our own Prof Keith Martin joined Reuben Adams's Steering AI podcast examining the role of AI-enabled malware, alongside ESET's Tony Anscombe. Well worth a listen! YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=8eY0... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1mN7...

On 12 November, we are delighted to welcome Siân John MBE to deliver the second Fred Piper Annual Information Security Lecture at @royalholloway.bsky.social. Registration is free but mandatory - follow the link below for more information and to sign-up. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...

📢 Our own Prof Rikke Bjerg Jensen has shared insights into examining and working with higher-risk communities, including the 'Social Foundations of Cryptography' project, using ethnography to explore the needs of activists in large-scale protests. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/sto...

📰 Check out this new report funded by the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on 'Securing Converged Technologies: Insights from Subject Matter Experts' Written by our own Dr @andrewdwyer.bsky.social and @mikaelabrough.bsky.social (CDT in Cyber Security) www.gov.uk/government/p...

📢 Our own Prof Keith Martin has provided comment to @theregister.com on the Orange Belgium data breach: "Large data breaches of this type simply should not happen, regardless of the utility of the stolen data... www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/o... 1/3

📢 Call for Mentors in the @isg-rhul.bsky.social! This year, we are launching a mentoring scheme for our masters students to help them navigate their path in information and cyber security as well as data science! If you’re interested, please email [email protected] with a short CV.

📣 Our own Dr Maryam Mehrnezhad is featured in @theguardian.com providing security advice and tips on how to exercise(!) security and privacy in fitness apps! www.theguardian.com/money/2025/a...

📢 Our own Prof Keith Martin's Third Edition of Everyday Cryptography is now published! To find out more about the book (with links to purchase!), see Keith's website: www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~martin/ever...

📢 Check out this new edited book collection on "Advanced Cryptographic Protocols" by our own Dr Liz Quaglia and Prof Daniele Venturi (Sapienza, University of Rome) available here: www.decifris.it/koine/vol4

Listen to our own Prof Keith Martin, @jhappa.bsky.social, and Dr Konstantinos Mersinas discuss their new book, Cyber Security Foundations on the Security Insights podcast! www.securityinsights.co.uk/podcast/cybe... 1/2

📢 Our own Prof Lizzie Coles-Kemp at the annual conference of The Research Institute on Verified Trustworthy Software Systems (VeTSS) last week Her talk, "Sociotechnical Futures: sociotechnical security for an age of cyber automation", considered ongoing deep socio- vetss.org.uk/annual-confe... 1/2

📢 Our own Prof Keith Martin has been writing and speaking about quantum computing and its impact upon cryptography! See his clear messaging in The Conversation UK on "Is a quantum-cryptography apocalypse imminent?" theconversation.com/is-a-quantum...

I'm delighted that with colleagues - Co-Is Lizzie Coles-Kemp and Danilo Francati - that we have been successful in the first SALIENT funding call with our project, "Fake in the Community"

📢 Want to find out more about our MSc Information Security? Come to our Postgraduate Taster Session with Dr Maryam Mehrnezhad and Olga Angelopoulou on Usable Security and Privacy! 🗓️ When: Monday 19th May, 1pm (UK time) online ➡️ Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4826ea... #cybersecurity

📢 Calling ISG Alumni For this year's ISG newsletter, we are introducing a new section called 'Alumni Corner' for our alumni to share major achievements. Form closes on Friday 18 May at 6pm (UK time). forms.office.com/e/i2YiyACmJ7

📚 Our own Prof Chris Mitchell has co-edited the Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Security Standardisation Research, published as LNCS 15559. This includes a paper by Cheok leng Ng and our own Dr Maryam Mehrnezhad! This can be accessed at: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

📢 Our own Prof Keith Martin spoke with Anna Delaney from Information Security Media Group (ISMG) on teaching cyber security in a world that is rapidly changing, from fragmented digital governance to the use of AI. Check out the video! www.bankinfosecurity.com/teaching-cyb...

📢 Our own @rikkebjerg.bsky.social was interviewed for @themarkup.org discussing her co-led Social Foundations of Cryptography project (for more on this, see here: social-foundations-of-cryptography.gitlab.io) and her academic journey. themarkup.org/hello-world/...

📢 Our own Maryam Mehrnezhad gave some insights into how to protect yourself online in The Guardian this past weekend - check it out! www.theguardian.com/money/2025/m...

📢 Earlier this month several ISG staff - Keith Martin, Jassim Happa, and Konstantinos Mersinas - alongside former colleague Guido Schmitz published their new book providing the foundations to understand cyber security! www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

"Rethinking Security from the Ground Up" an interview with @rikkebjerg.bsky.social (based in @isg-rhul.bsky.social) in @themarkup.org It's a good interview, go read it. themarkup.org/hello-world/...

📢 Our own @andrewdwyer.bsky.social gave evidence to the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) on offensive cyber - demonstrating the ISG's key work in providing expertise to policy in information and cyber security www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

📢 Last week, ISG colleagues (Chris Mitchell, Christian Weinert, and Rachel Player) variously contributed submissions and virtually attended the bi-annual meeting of ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 27/WG 2, the international standardisation committee for cryptographic techniques. www.iso.org/committee/45...

A prestigious award recognising excellence and innovation has been won by the MSc Cyber Security distance learning programme, offered through the University of London, with academic direction from Information Security Group (ISG). www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

Ahead of International Women's Day, the ISG's Usable Security and Privacy Lab provides 10 top tips on the privacy and security of using FemTech. #IWD2025

📢 Our own Dr Christian Weinert gave an invited talk at TPMPC 2025 at the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore earlier this week on "Standardization of MPC"!

Congratulations to Dr Fauzia Idrees, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Cyber Security Distance Learning programme, who has been appointed as a Global Ambassador for Responsible AI for the UK. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

📢 Our own Sean Murphy & Rachel Player have written Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction, published today with Oxford University Press! This updates the 1st edition, written by Sean Murphy, and the late Fred Piper, the founder of the ISG. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

📣 Our own Prof Chris Mitchell presented presented "Constructing orientable sequences" at Sequences 2025, held at City, University of London last week. sites.google.com/view/sequenc...

📣 Our own Dr Konstantinos Mersinas and colleagues' work has been presented at the 4th Annual Social Sciences Seminar #SOSH at the United States Military Academy #USMA in West Point exploring martime cybersecurity!

📣 Friend or Foe? Navigating and Re-configuring "Snipers' Alley" A paper with Lizzie Coles-Kemp, Clara Crivellaro, & Claude Heath exploring how 'snipers' - including governments, service providers, and family/friends - are made in a constricted 1/2 #chi25 pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/publicati...

📢 Check out our own Prof Keith Martin on the future-proofing of information security on the podcast Phishing for Trouble from isms.online below! creators.spotify.com/pod/show/pod...

For our first Bluesky post, we are delighted to welcome Richard Horne (CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre) to deliver the inaugural Fred Piper Information Security Lecture on 9 December, established in memory of the late Professor Fred Piper who founded the Information Security Group. 1/2