Fred Piper

The Information Security Group

Fred Piper is currently External Director of the Information Security Group (ISG) at Royal Holloway.  In 1985 Fred formed a consultancy company, Codes & Ciphers Ltd, and since then he has acted as a consultant to over 100 companies in the UK, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada and the US.

The consultancy work has been varied and has included algorithm design and analysis, key management and security audits of large networks. Fred has lectured worldwide on Information Security, both academically and commercially, with recent emphasis on the use of digital signatures and the role for public key infrastructures.

Fred is a member of the Institute of Information Security Professionals and a Fellow of ISC2.  In 2005 he was elected to the ISSA Hall of Fame and in 2008 he became the first member of the Info Security Europe Hall of Fame.  He is a Member of the Bletchley Park Trust.