Dr Robert Stroud
Current Position: Reader in Security and Dependability
Research interests:
- Security and fault tolerance, particularly intrusion tolerance
- System structuring for dependability
- Cloud computing
- Reflection and Metaobject protocols
- Object-oriented systems
- Secure programming
- History of programming languages
- Legal and copyright issues in the digital world
Background: Dr Robert Stroud recently joined CSR as a Reader in Security and Dependability. His previous experience includes working for Google as a Site Reliability Engineer, and for two SMEs that provide e-Business services to the engineering industry. Formerly, he worked as a Lecturer and Reader at University of Newcastle upon Tyne for 15 years. His research interests are broadly in the area of dependability, particularly fault tolerance, distributed systems, and security, and he was a member of the Executive Board and co-author of three European dependability projects, DeVa, DSoS, and MAFTIA. In particular, he was the overall project director for the MAFTIA project on Malicious and Accidental Fault Tolerance for Internet Applications, a pioneering project in the field of intrusion tolerance that received outstanding reviews and was a finalist for the Descartes prize in 2004. He also also been commissioned to write consultancy reports for DERA/QinetiQ on the security of web services and ActiveX technology, and responded in detail to the Home Office Public Consultation on Investigation of Protected Electronic Information.
Robert has an MA in Mathematics from St John's College, Cambridge, an MSc in Computing Systems and Software Design from University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and a PhD in Computing Science on the topic of naming in distributed systems, also from University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Some recent publications
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Paulo Veríssimo, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Christian Cachin, Jonathan Poritz, David Powell, Yves Deswarte, Robert Stroud and Ian Welch, "Intrusion-Tolerant Middleware: The Road to Automatic Security", IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 54-62, Jul./Aug. 2006.
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Robert Stroud, Ian Welch, John Warne and Peter Ryan, "A Qualitative Analysis of the Intrusion-Tolerance Capabilities of the MAFTIA Architecture", in Proc. 2004 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2004), IEEE Computer Society, Florence, Italy, 2004
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Ian Welch and Robert Stroud, "Re-engineering Security as a Crosscutting Concern - Experience with a Third Party Application", BCS Journal (Special issue on Aspect Oriented Programming and Separation of Concerns), September 2003.
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Ian Welch and Robert Stroud, "Using Reflection as a Mechanism for Enforcing Security Policies on Compiled Code", Journal of Computer Security, Vol. 10, IOS Press, Netherlands, pp 399-432, 2002.
Robert's full list of research papers and abstracts / full texts
- Contact Details:
- Tel: 020 7040 8422 (from UK), or +44 20 7040 8422 (outside UK)
- Fax: 020 7040 8585 (from UK), or +44 20 7040 8585 (outside UK)
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E-mail: Robert.Stroud@csr.city.ac.uk