The Information Security Group (ISG) is a world-leading interdisciplinary research group dedicated to research and education in the area of information (cyber) security.

The ISG comprises around twenty-five full-time academic faculty members, including a mix of computer scientists, mathematicians and social scientists. They are supported by visiting academics, research assistants and a large number of research students, making the ISG one of the largest academic information security teams in the world.

The ISG was formed in 1990 with the intent of providing an academic institution which understood and collaborated with government and industry in the area of information security. Today the ISG continues to attract some of the best minds in the world working in the field of cyber security, helping to shape the National Cyber Security Strategy and develop the talent and services of tomorrow.

Royal Holloway is recognised as a UK Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR). We have also received an ACE-CSE Gold Award in recognition of our excellence in cyber security education.

The ISG's research profile takes advantage of the group's interdisciplinary nature to tackle major challenges in many different areas of information security. The ISG's research covers five broad, overlapping, areas:

• the Sytems and Software Security Research Lab;
• the Smart Card and Internet of Things Security Centre;
• the Cryptography Group;
• the Interdisciplinary Security Collective; and
• the Ethnography Group.