Centre for e-Security

Head of Centre: Prof. Ali Abdallah

The e-Security research centre was formed in 2003 to build on the success of the International Conference on Formal Aspects of Security, co-organized with Royal Holloway, University of London, December 2002.
Recent publications have addressed authentication and authorization in grid computing and virtual organizations, formal models of role-based access control, and hardware acceleration of cryptographic algorithms.

Academic Staff

• Prof. Ali Abdallah (Head)


• Prof. Jonathan Bowen


• Dr. Sylvia Jennings


• Prof. Nimal Nissanke


• Mr. Nigel Philips


• Dr. Dave Protheroe

Research Students

• Ali Haider
• Maya Chehab
• Hassan Takabi