Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism

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Contributors
Gary Hibberd
Agenci Information Security (AIS) Consultancy, UK
Amin Hosseinian-Far
Williams College, UK
John Huddlestone
Coventry University, UK
Hamid Jahankhani
Director of Research and Consultancy Development, 
Williams College, UK
Eleanor Lockley
Researcher, CENTRIC, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Eric Luiijf
TNO Networked Organisations Principal Consultant C(I)IP& 
Cyber Ops Networked Organisations, The Hague, 
The Netherlands
Alessandro Mantelero
Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Gianluigi Me
CeRSI, Research Center in Information Systems, 
LUISS Guido Carli University, Roma
Dale Richards
Senior Lecturer, Human Technology Centre, Coventry 
University, UK
Fraser Sampson
Chief Executive and Solicitor of the Office of Police and 
Crime Commissioner, West Yorkshire Police, UK
Siraj A. Shaikh
Digital Security and Forensics (SaFe) Research Group, 
Coventry University, UK
Andrew Staniforth
West Yorkshire Police, UK
Alex W. Stedmon
Reader in Human Factors, Human Systems Integration 
Group, Coventry University, UK
Giuseppe Vaciago
Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Sufian Yousef
Anglia Ruskin University, UK

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Author Biography
BABAK AKHGAR
Babak Akhgar is Professor of Informatics and Director of CENTRIC (Center of excel-
lence in terrorism, resilience, intelligence and organized crime research) at Sheffield 
Hallam University and Fellow of the British Computer Society. Akhgar graduated 
from Sheffield Hallam University in Software Engineering. He gained considerable 
commercial experience as a Strategy Analyst and Methodology Director for several 
international companies. Prof. Babak Akhgar obtained a Master degree (with distinc-
tion) in Information Systems in Management and a PhD in Information Systems. 
He has more than 100 referred publications in international journals and confer-
ences on information systems with specific focus on knowledge management (KM). 
He is member of editorial boards of a number of international Journals, Chair and 
programme committee member of several international conferences. Akhgar has ex-
tensive and hands on experience in development, management and execution of KM 
projects and large international security initiatives (e.g., Application of social me-
dia in crisis management, intelligence-based combating of terrorism and organised 
crime, Gun crime, cyber security, Public Order and cross cultural ideology polariza-
tion) with multimillion Euros budgets.
In addition to this he is the technical lead of two EU Security projects; “Courage” 
which focuses on Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism and “Athena project” which 
focuses on the application of social media and mobile devices in crisis management. 
He has co-edited a book on Intelligence management (Knowledge Driven frame-
works for combating Terrorism and Organised crime). His recent books are titled 
Strategic Intelligence Management (National Security Imperatives and Information 
and Communications Technologies) 2013 and Emerging Trends in ICT Security 
2014. Prof. Akhgar is also a member of academic advisory board of SAS UK.