Dr Faily is a Principal Scientist at DSDL and a Visiting Fellow in Systems Security Engineering at Bournemouth University.
Before joining DSDL, Dr Faily worked at BU for a number of years, as a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, and as a Teaching Fellow at the Information Security Group at University College London. He completed his DPhil in Computer Science at the University of Oxford. Prior to his doctoral research, Dr Faily was a software engineer within Logica's Space business, developing software that supports flight dynamics operations for several European Space Agency (ESA) missions, including Mars Express and Rosetta.
Dr Faily’s research explores how security can be 'built in' at the earliest stages of a software product or service's design, and how software can be designed to ensure it remains secure and usable when used in different contexts. He is particularly interested in the role User Experience (UX) artefacts like personas can play in design for security and privacy, and how software tools can help rather than hinder the design of secure and usable software. He maintains the free and open- source CAIRIS platform, and is an author of the textbook 'Designing Usable and Secure Software with IRIS and CAIRIS' (Springer, 2018).
Dr Faily is a Principal Scientist at DSDL and a Visiting Fellow in Systems Security Engineering at Bournemouth University.
Before joining DSDL, Dr Faily worked at BU for a number of years, as a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, and as a Teaching Fellow at the Information Security Group at University College London. He completed his DPhil in Computer Science at the University of Oxford. Prior to his doctoral research, Dr Faily was a software engineer within Logica's Space business, developing software that supports flight dynamics operations for several European Space Agency (ESA) missions, including Mars Express and Rosetta.
Dr Faily’s research explores how security can be 'built in' at the earliest stages of a software product or service's design, and how software can be designed to ensure it remains secure and usable when used in different contexts. He is particularly interested in the role User Experience (UX) artefacts like personas can play in design for security and privacy, and how software tools can help rather than hinder the design of secure and usable software. He maintains the free and open- source CAIRIS platform, and is an author of the textbook 'Designing Usable and Secure Software with IRIS and CAIRIS' (Springer, 2018).