Cyber security at Edinburgh Napier

2010 Launched MSc Advanced Security and Digital Forensics (renamed MSc Cyber Security in 2023)

2011 First public Christmas Lecture and first Capture The Flag event staged for students

2013 Worked with PoliceScotland to develop content for MSC ASDF

2015 Launched Cyber Academy and ENUSEC society / First Hackathon organised by students

2016 First Big Data Security Conference hosted at Craiglockhart campus

2017 First International Conference on Big Data, Cyber Security and AI (subsequently staged annually)

2018 SOCLAB - developed with Industry partners - opened for students at Merchiston campus

2019 Winner of the Best Cyber Educational programme

2020 Edinburgh Napier welcomed Marty Hellman, Troy Hunt, Whitfield Diffie, Daniel Bernstein, Bruce Schnieir

2021 Edinburgh Napier's cyber spin-outs: Zonefox, Cyacomb, Symphonic, TrueDeploy

2022 Zonefox acquired

2023 Professor Bill Buchanan named Teacher of the Year (Bill has won Best Lecturer/Tutor for School of Computing at the Student-voted Excellence Awards six times in last 10 years)

2024 NCSC Academic Centre of Excellence for Education (ACE-CSE) Gold Award. (3 NCSC-certified PG courses and 2 UG, aligned to CyBOK) / 

HEA Award finalists

2025 10th annual student hackathon held