Bill Buchanan is a Professor in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University. He currently leads the Centre for Distributed Computing and Security, and works in the areas of security, e-Crime, intrusion detection systems, digital forensics, e-Health, mobile computing, agent-based systems, and simulation. Bill has one of the most extensive academic sites in the World, and is involved in many areas of novel teaching in computing. He has published over 26 academic books, and over 100 academic research papers, along with awards for excellence in knowledge transfer. Presently he is working with a range of industrial/domain partners, including with the Scottish Police, health care professionals and the FSA. Currently I am organising a Symposium on Security and Cybercrime. A few recent lectures are:

• Threats. Lecture
• Network Forensics. Lecture
• Data hiding and Obfuscation. Lecture
• Web Infrastructures. Lecture.
• Cloud Computing. Lecture

and other relavent ones at:

• Introduction to Security [Link]
• Principles of IDS [Link].
• Principles of Encryption [Link]
• Principles of Authentication [Link].
• Principles of Network Security [Link]
• Principles of Software Security [Link].
• [View a range of on-line lectures]

My teaching packs:

• Security and Forensic Computing (last update 2009) [download]
• Wireless LANs (last update 2008) [download]
• Advanced Security [download]

And other little snippets:

• My Security Tips (HMAC, public-key, etc): [Here]
• Previous undergraduate and postgraduate projects: [projects]
• 1st Prize in Real Time Award: [Page]
• Centre for Distributed Computing and Security: [Web - External Site]

A few quick links are:

.NET: [My ASP.NET][70-320 .NET/C# Certification][XML Web][Introduction to C#]
[Prof Lecture][KTP 2004 Award][KTP 2003 Award]
[Security Video] [BCS Symposium]

My design pages are meant to give some hints and tips for your designs. The following are just a few examples of recent design tips. I've been adding a few new design pages. These include:

- The latest Design Tip
- Diffie-Hellman Secret Key Exchange
- Router emulator
- UNIX networking emulator
- Cisco switch emulator on a PDA