Information Security Group

It is part of the Engineering, Physical Sciences and Mathematics School (EPMS) at Royal Holloway, University of London.

The ISG includes the Smart Card and IoT Security Centre (previously named Smart Card Centre, SCC) that was founded in October 2002 by Royal Holloway, Vodafone and Giesecke & Devrient, for training and research in the field of Smart cards, applications and related technologies: its research topics include RFID, Near Field Communication (NFC), mobile devices, IoT, and general embedded/implementation system security.

In 2008, the SCC was commissioned to perform a counter expertise review of the OV-chipkaart by the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management.

Current and former associated academics include Whitfield Diffie, Kenny Paterson, David Naccache, Matt Robshaw, Michael Walker, Sean Murphy and Igor Muttik.

[13] Royal Holloway's Information Security Group has been mentioned in popular media, most notably in the New York Times bestseller The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.