Professor Howard Chivers
Head of Centre for Forensic Computing and Security
Location: Shrivenham campus
E: h.chivers@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1793 785269
Department of Engineering and Applied Science
Current activities
Howard Chivers is Professor and Director of the Centre for Forensic Computing and Security.His research interests and publications cover a wide spectrum of security-related topics including both computer security and computer forensics; a major focus is the systematic design of secure systems, including service-oriented, grid, and pervasive architectures. This work was developed during a Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship at the University of York, and is being continued in the Department of Engineering and Applied Science at Cranfield University.
Background
His career includes time in both industry and government, in the fields of cryptography, communications, and data processing. As a Technical Director of two medium-sized communications companies, he developed commercial products in these fields, and managed company quality and project delivery. In government, he managed the computer security research programme for CESG, and has been responsible for the design and delivery of large-scale secure data processing systems, enterprise-wide IT architectures, and major technical programmes.
Selected publications
Chivers, H. & Hargreaves, C. (2011) Forensic data recovery from the Windows Search Database, Digital Investigation Volume 7, Issue 3-4, p.114-126
Hargreaves and Chivers (2008). Recovery of Encryption Keys from Memory Using a Linear Scan. International Workshop on Digital Forensics (WSDF’08) as part of The Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2008 – The International Dependability Conference)
