Congratulations to Prof Bill Buchanan, who has won Best Lecturer/Tutor (School of Computing) for the 2nd year in a row in our student-nominated Excellence Awards 2020. Keep up the great work! #ENSAExcellenceAwards2020 #EdNapier #EdinburghNapier

Congrats Prof B Buchanan OBE FRSE

In 2021, we have two new major research distributed ledger projects in our Blockpass Identity Lab and a new spin-out MEMCRYPT ... watch out for a number of new research posts and PhD students. We just love crypto and building a more trusted and citizen-focused world!

We have university approval and are getting our funding in place for our spin-out...we following in the steps of the mighty ZoneFox Symphonic Software (Now part of Ping Identity) and @CyanForensics and have learnt from foundations they have built. Thank you Innovate UK and Scottish Enterprise for support in our journey.

Three highly successful spin-outs ... ZoneFox Symphonic Software (Now part of Ping Identity) and @CyanForensics ... now another two on their way from @ComputingNapier ... MEMCRYPT and 3FINERY LTD ... and which shows the spectrum of the research work ...

Our spin-out MEMCRYPT is happening ... the 4th cybersecurity spin-out from Edinburgh Napier University @ComputingNapier Blockpass Identity Lab ... and we will be announcing our leading executive team soon ... and watch out for our new spin-outs coming out of our Blockpass Identity Lab

Always an engaging speaker on Cybersecurity ... Schneier Blog ... spending a whole hour taking questions from our MSc Applied Cryptography students ...

Today the MEMCRYPT spin-out becomes alive. Thank you to Edinburgh Napier University, Scottish Enterprise and Innovate UK #cyberasap for their support over the years. The company follows ZoneFox, Symphonic Software (Now part of Ping Identity) and @CyanForensics on a journey to turn research into impact.

.Edinburgh Napier University spin-out MEMCRYPT has appointed tech entrepreneur Pete Jaco as its new chief executive insider.co.uk/appointments/s…

NEWS | Tech entrepreneur Pete Jaco has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of #EdNapier spinout MEMCRYPT. Full story ⤵️ #InOurBones | @ComputingNapier

One of the great privileges in my work is to work with some amazing people, and who share in a grand vision ...so to work alongside amazing people like Peter Jaco is something I will never take for granted. Cybersecurity spin-out 4 becomes alive MEMCRYPT scotlandis.com/blog/edinburgh…

We have great innovation, crypto expertise & business know-how at the core of our 4th Cybersecurity spin-out. Peter McLaren & Peter Jaco taking on CTO & CEO roles, respective, & following in mighty footsteps of ZoneFox, Symphonic Software (Now part of Ping Identity) and @CyanForensics napier.ac.uk/about-us/news/…

Tech entrepreneur Pete Jaco has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of a university spin-out geared to tackling the multi-billion pound ransomware market. scottish-enterprise-mediacentre.com/news/spin-out-…

At MEMCRYPT, we say hello to our new CEO ... Peter Jaco ... Our new CTO Peter McLaren and our Technical lead Owen Lo scotlandis.com/blog/edinburgh… and thank you to Edinburgh Napier University Scottish Enterprise and CyberASAP for supporting us through our journey.

MEMCRYPT Peter McLaren Owen Lo Edinburgh Napier University CyberASAP We are so pleased to have supported you, and look forward to seeing you shine 👏📈

For cybersecurity, we had two world-leading (4*) research impact assessments in REF 2021 and now have four amazing - high-impact - spin-outs: ZoneFox, Symphonic Software (Now part of Ping Identity), @Cyacomb_com and MEMCRYPT. Contact us for collaboration ... and change the world.

A PhD student has asked me about the use of ChatGPT to rephrase the text they have written. Here is the Association for Computing Machinery policy on this matter.

Prof Berk Canberk is the General Chair for IEEE CAMAD (Computer-Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks) 2023, and which will be hosted on our campus from 6–8 November 2023. The deadline for papers is 31 July 2023. Details here: camad2023.ieee-camad.org

We are pleased to say we are graduates of the #NCSCforStartups programme and now ready for business. Please DM if you would like to run a paid pilot of our anti-ransomware technology.

MemCrypt is delighted to become a member of the esteemed Alumni Network of the #ncscforstartups programme. Many thanks to NCSC UK, Plexal Cyber and Deloitte UK for their support and interest in our tech.