About
Ross Anderson is Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University. He is one of the founders of a vigorously-growing new academic discipline, the economics of information security. Ross was also a seminal contributor to the idea of peer-to-peer systems and an inventor of the AES finalist encryption algorithm "Serpent". He also has well-known publications on many other technical security topics including hardware tamper-resistance, medical record systems and smart meters. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IET and the IMA. He also wrote the standard textbook "Security Engineering - a Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems".
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 6 investors at University of Cambridge are tracked.
- • 1 investors hold the Professor of Security Engineering role in VCSift. Ross Anderson is one of them.
- • 491 investors are based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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- Stages
- seed
- Location
- Cambridge, US
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