Biography
I received my MCS and PhD degress in cryptography and computer security from the School of Computer Science, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). From 1998 till 2002 I was a research scientist at a computer security software company (Entrust) where I led code security reviews, designed new products, and created new IETF and W3C standards, primarily in authentication and key management. From 2002 till 2008 I worked for the Government of Canada where I designed new services (e.g., the "account recovery" service for the Government Online portal, used by more than six million citizens) and wrote the Government's ISO 9001-equivalent IT security standard. I was a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh from 2008. In 2010 I became a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University, and in 2015 I moved to Heriot-Watt University as an Associate Professor.