The demand for Incident response and digital forensic services is increasing year on year as businesses struggle with internal and external threats to their data and intellectual property.
Until August this year, Martin Roots was a senior lecturer of 20 years’ experience at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. Originally a mechanical engineer, he initially lectured in computer-integrated/aided engineering then moved across to mainstream computer science in 1996 following the completion of his first part-time MSc in Information Technology.
Roots was the instigator and sole author of the highly successful undergraduate degree ‘Information Security and Forensic Computing’ which was scored at an above national average of 88% satisfaction rating by 2012 graduates.
To support this degree, Martin successfully undertook the part-time MSc in Information Security at Royal Holloway (UL) ISG. For 2012 delivery, he has been able to extend the ISFC degree to cover additional emerging topics such as image processing (for example, steganography and image recognition) and network routing.
Of his new appointment, Roots commented: “I’m really excited to be joining the Incoming Thought team and building on the excellent incident response and digital forensics work they have already been doing.”
Nigel Stanley, the CEO at Incoming Thought, added: “I’m extremely pleased Martin has joined us. Businesses are looking for alternative ways of dealing with cyber crime incidents following budget cuts in law enforcement agencies, and Incoming Thought is fully geared up to provide a full investigation and evidence gathering service.”
Stanley added: “Civil remediation is often the best course of action for businesses that become victims of cyber crime, and we can assist in this process.”
Saving money, increasing profits, avoiding legal and compliance issues
Incoming Thought offers solutions to help secure the business advantage its clients have worked so hard to create, and in turn enable them to save money, increase profits or avoid legal and compliance issues.
The company aims to assist clients to continue focusing on their core business activities while working with the consultancy on protecting what’s important to them – their business advantage.
Incoming Thought’s team consists of professionals who have years of experience having worked across a range of technical and strategic projects. The organisation covers all aspects of information security, physical security, hardware, software, infrastructure, compliance, governance and assurance.
Find out more about the work of Incoming Thought’s <a href=”http://www.incomingthought.co.uk/index.php/services/incident-response-digital-forensics”>Incident Response and Digital Forensics service</a>
