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Ross Anderson

Professor of Security Engineering at University of Cambridge

Cambridge, US

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".

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  • 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.

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