Autor: Constantinos Patsakis

Dimitris Gritzalis is a Professor of Cybersecurity with the Dept. of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB), Greece, where he also serves as Director of the M.Sc. Programme on Information Systems Security and Development, and Director of the Information Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection Research Group. He received degrees in Mathematics (B.Sc., University of Patras, Greece), Computer Science (M.Sc., City University of New York, USA), and Information Systems Security (Ph.D., University of the Aegean, Greece). He has served as Vice Rector for Research (AUEB), Associate Data Protection Commissioner of Greece, and President of the Greek Computer Society. He is the academic editor of the Computers & Security journal (Elsevier), and the scientific editor of the International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection (Elsevier). He has authored numerous publications in journals and peer-reviewed conferences, and participated in several national and international R&D and consultancy projects. His current areas of research include cybersecurity governance, critical infrastructure protection, malware, risk assessment, and cybersecurity education. Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo holds the Cloud Technology Endowed Professorship at The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. He is the founding co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research & Practice, and the founding Chair of IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society Technical Committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies. His research on cyber analytics, security, and forensics has been funded by organizations in U.S. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Security Agency, National Science Foun-dation, Dept. of Defense, Dept. of Homeland Security, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, CPS Energy, LGS Innovations, MITRE, Texas National Security Network Excellence Fund) and Australia (National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Government National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund, Australian Government Cooperative Research Centre for Data to Decision, Lockheed Martin Australia, au DA Foundation, Government of South Australia, BAE Systems stratsec, Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration Inc., Australian Research Council). Constantinos Patsakis is an Associate Professor with the Dept. of Informatics of the University of Piraeus, Greece and an Adjunct Researcher at the Athena Research and Innovation Center. He received the B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece, the M.Sc. degree in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom, and the Ph.D. degree in Cryptography and Malware from the University of Piraeus, Greece. In the past, he has worked as a Researcher at the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy at Rovira i Virgili, at Trinity College, Ireland, and at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology. Luxembourg. He has authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed international conferences and journals and participated in several national and European R&D projects. His main areas of research include cryptography, security, privacy, blockchains, and cybercrime.