Richard Buckland is UNSW Professor in Cybercrime, Cyberwar and Cyberterror. He is the Director of SECeduAustralian Cybersecurity Education Network, a partnership between UNSW and the Commonwealth Bank. Richard is UNSW Director of Teaching Practice, and Director of Education at UNSW’s Institute for Cyber Security.  

His research areas are in Security Engineering and risk, along with Education and Teaching. He has been teaching successful cybersecurity students for two decades.  Richard has been Chair of the Academic Board of the Australian Computer Society Education, a member of the UNSW Academic Board, and Chair of the Skills Syllabus Group of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW. 

Richard has been leading cybersecurity education at UNSW Sydney for 15 years and is a passionate promoter of an engineering approach to security. His students are highly sought after by industry and are renowned for excelling in cybersecurity competitions nationally and internationally. His open online Security Engineering course has over 20,000 students. Richard has degrees in Economics and Science, the university medal in Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics, and was awarded one of the first three Microsoft Research Fellowships worldwide. Richard is the Grand Challenge Visiting Professor in Cybersecurity at Taylors University and Visiting Professor at the National University of Malaysia (UKM).  

In 2015 Richard gave the opening keynote at EdCrunch, the largest education conference in Europe. He has won numerous peer reviewed teaching awards including from the Australian College of Educators, the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, and Engineers Australia. He was the 2013 Australian ICT Educator of the Year (iAwards) and the 2007 Australasian Engineering Educator of the Year.