Fred has published over 100 research papers, 6 books (4 on cryptography), and is on the editorial boards of two international journals. He has also supervised over 50 PhD students and is one of the organisers of the MSc’s in Information Security and Secure Electronic Commerce being offered at Royal Holloway. He has lectured world-wide on a wide range of topics in information security, both academically and commercially. In 1985 he formed a company, Codes & Ciphers Ltd, which offers consultancy advice in all aspects of information security. He has acted as a consultant for a number of financial institutions and major industrial companies in the UK, Europe and USA. This consultancy has covered a wide range of subjects including design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms, and work on a number of ATM and EFTPOS systems. In the last few years he has served on a number of committees offering security advice to the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry. In 2002 he was awarded an IMA Gold Medal for “Services to Mathematics”. In 2002 he was also awarded the first honorary CISSP for a European. This was for ‘leadership in Information Security’. In 2003 Fred received an honorary CISM for ‘globally recognised leadership’ and ‘contribution to the Information Security Profession’. In 2005 he was elected to the ISSA Hall of Fame. He was named Professional of the Year at the Communications in Business Awards 2005. In 2008 he was elected to be a Fellow of (ISC)2. In 2008 he was the first person to be elected to the InfoSecurity Europe Hall of Fame.