Cyber Security

In May 2019 he was promoted to the rank of Deputy Chief Constable Crime and Operational Support.
In February 2019 he was appointed Assistant Chief Constable as the executive lead for the newly created Partnership, Prevention and Community Wellbeing portfolio with responsibility for developing new approaches to working with other Scottish public services to achieve better outcomes for communities and includes Safer Communities. Leading on preventative approaches to policing and community wellbeing, with a long term strategy focussing on collaboration, working in partnership across services and with communities, seeking to improve community wellbeing through tackling the underlying causes of crime and vulnerability.

Following a 30 year career in policing which included leading cyber investigations. In 2013 Keith joined the Scottish Government to support the development of cyber policy and strategy. In November 2015 the Scottish Government launched Safe, Secure, Prosperous a Cyber Strategy for Scotland which was followed in 2021 by The Strategic Framework for a Cyber Resilient Scotland.

Keith was responsible for establishing the Cyber Scotland Partnership. He currently leads the Scottish Governments National Cyber Incident Co-ordination arrangements. He is currently working on the Scottish Government’s commitment around bringing forward the establishment of a recognised, authoritative and collaborative function to combat the accelerating threat of cyber attack to Scotland.

Dr Khamis is a reader/associate professor at the University of Glasgow, where he leads the SIRIUS Lab research group that works at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Security. Dr Khamis and his team work on understanding threats to privacy, safety and security that are facilitated or caused by ubiquitous technologies, such as mobile devices, thermal cameras, and Extended Reality sensors. He and his team then build human-centered systems and methods to mitigate these threats. Dr Khamis’ research is / has been funded the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the UK National Cyber Security Centre, Meta, and others. With 110+ publications in world class journals and conferences, he is an expert in human-centered security.

Bill Buchanan is a Professor in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University, and a Fellow of the BCS and the IET. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to cyber security. Currently he leads the Centre for Distributed Computing, Networks, and Security and The Cyber Academy (http://thecyberacademy.org).
His main research focus is around information sharing, such as using Trust and Governance Policies, threat analysis, cryptography, and triage within digital forensics. This has led to several World-wide patents, and in three highly successful spin-out companies: Zonefox (zonefox.com); Symphonic Software (www.symphonicsoft.com/); and Cyan Forensics (cyanforensics.com).
Bill regularly appears on TV and radio related to computer security, and has given evidence to the Justice Committee at the Scottish Parliament, along with being part of the BBC Scottish Independence Team of Experts (speciality: Cyber Security). This includes appearances on Newsnight Scotland, Good Morning Scotland, Panorama, and Radio 5 Newsdrive.
Bill was named as one of the Top 100 people for Technology in Scotland for 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. In Feb 2016, he was also included in the FutureScot “Top 50 Scottish Tech People Who Are Changing The World”. Recently his work on Secret Shares received “Innovation of the Year” at the Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards, for a research project which involves splitting data into secret shares, and can then be distributed across a public Cloud-based infrastructure. He was included in the JISC Top 50 Higher Education Social Media Influencers in 2015.