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ASecuritySite Podcast

ASecuritySite Podcast

By: Professor Bill Buchanan OBE
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A security podcast is hosted by Professor William (Bill) Buchanan OBE, a world-renowned Information security professional and educator. Join Bill as he interviews and discusses the state-of-the-art with esteemed guests from all corners of the security industry. From cryptologists to technologists, each guest shares a wealth of experience and knowledge.2023 Science
Episodes
  • World-leaders in Cryptography: Craig Costello
    Jan 15 2026

    Craig is a Professor of Computer Science at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), who has a special focus on post-quantum cryptography and Zero Knowledge Proofs. He was previously a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research at Redmond. Craig did his PhD at QUT from 2008 to 2012, and received a Fulbright Scholarship with UC Irvine from 2010 and 2011. In 2015, Craig published details of the FourQ elliptic curve, and which is one of the fastest curves around.

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    1 hr and 59 mins
  • World-leaders in Cryptography: Kenny Paterson
    Jan 13 2026

    Kenny is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, where he leads the Applied Cryptography Group. He was previously a professor in the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London. He served as co-chair of the IRTF's research group on Cryptography, CFRG, from 2014 to 2019 and as the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Cryptography 2017 to 2020. He was elected as an IACR Fellow in 2017 and was the IACR Distinguished Lecturer in 2025. He obtained his PhD from Royal Holloway in 1993, and his Doctoral Supervisor was Fred Piper. Kenny has been awarded a number of awards for his research work, including the Applied Networking Research Prize from the IRTF in 2013 and the Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, for work with Mihir Bellare and Phil Rogaway on the Security of symmetric encryption against mass surveillance, a paper published at CRYPTO 2014.

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    1 hr and 45 mins
  • World-leaders in Cryptography: Giuseppe Ateniese
    Dec 19 2025

    Giuseppe is a Professor, Eminent Scholar in the Cybersecurity and CCI Faculty Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at George Mason University. He has advanced many areas of research, including proxy re-encryption, anonymous communication, two-party computation, secure storage, and provable data possession.

    His current work includes privacy-preserving machine learning and decentralised secure computing based on blockchain technology. He received the NSF CAREER Award for his research on privacy and security, and the Google Faculty Research Award, the IBM Faculty Award, and the IEEE CISTC Technical Recognition Award for his research on cloud security.

    Giuseppe was a researcher at IBM Zurich Research lab (Switzerland) and a scientist at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California (USA), and worked briefly as a visiting professor at Microsoft in Redmond (USA).

    He was the Farber Endowed Chair in Computer Science and Department Chair at Stevens Institute of Technology. He previously worked with Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) and was an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University (USA). Giuseppe is also one of the JHU Information Security Institute's founders.

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    1 hr and 35 mins
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