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