Interviews

Professor Sammes, can you tell us something about your background and your current role? I have not always been in the academic world. I started out in the military, serving for some 29 years in the British Army. I first

Simon Biles, together with his wife, runs an Information Security Consultancy – Thinking Security – from near Oxford in the UK. He is currently consulting with HM Revenue and Customs on Security Architecture. He is also studying for an MSc

Gene, can you tell us a little bit about your background and how you came to work at CERIAS? My academic PhD was work in reliable operating systems. I then did a post-doc in software testing, which I viewed as

Paul, can you tell us something about your background and your current role? I’m a Detective Sergeant with the City of London Police; I was previously seconded to the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit as an operational team leader. As a

Jonathan Krause is the owner of Forensic Control, which he established on 2008. Based in London they provide computer forensics services to law firms and corporate clients. Jonathan, can you tell us something about your background? How did you get

Ian, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you came to be involved with the Open University? I have always been interested in further and higher education. I have been teaching ICT related subjects and mathematics

Matt, can you tell us something about your background and how F-Response came into being? What problems were you trying to solve? It’s true that necessity is the mother of invention, which is how F-Response came into being. As a

Can you tell us something about your background? How did Appointments-UK come into being? I’ve enjoyed over twelve years in recruitment, starting out in the city [London] specialising in IT within Investment Banking. The area that really interested me was

Stefan, can you tell us something about your background? Why did you decide to concentrate on the forensic aspects of WinHex and develop X-Ways Forensics? Originally I started programming WinHex because I needed a hex editor and disk editor myself

Can you tell us something about your background before joining Guidance Software? Why did you decide to focus on technology law? After law school I practiced commercial litigation for about 8 years before joining Guidance Software in 1999. During my

How did you get started in computer forensics, was there something in particular which appealed to you about investigating computer misuse? When I first got started in computer security, I quickly noticed the number of people who were Linux or