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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

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

📢 Last week, ISG colleagues (Chris Mitchell, Christian Weinert & Dr 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. iso.org/committee/4530…

📢 Earlier this month, Andrew Dwyer 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 royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-e…

📢 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! royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-e…

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

📢 Our own Rikke Bjerg Jensen was interviewed for The Markup discussing her co-led Social Foundations of Cryptography project (for more on this, see here: …foundations-of-cryptography.gitlab.io) and her academic journey. themarkup.org/hello-world/20…

Disturbing research findings from our academics in Information Security Group, Royal Holloway show how prevalent hate speech remains on unregulated internet platforms. Funded by Agency Research, this study used state-of-the-art models to explore hate on the platform '4chan'. Read more: ow.ly/ZfK650VuGWc

📢 Our own Prof Keith Martin 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! bankinfosecurity.com/teaching-cyber…

📚 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/10.1007/9…

📢 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

📢 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/4826ea8c… #cybersecurity

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", bringing together geopolitics, socio-technical cyber security and cryptography

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