Welcome to the web site of the Adaptive Security and Economics Laboratory (ASECOLAB).

ASECOLab was founded at the Information Security Group of Royal Holloway, University of London in September 2012 with funding from the US and the UK Governments, including EPSRC and AFOSR, and a gift from Intel Corp.

The Lab is staffed by 13 aseconauts,  including 5 PhD students and 4 external members. Their mission is to think deeply about security, cyber space, science and economics in order to solve emerging cyber security problems. More...

New Directions

New Directions

There are already many different approaches and directions in security. Why seek new ones? Security is one of the driving forces of history: both war and diplomacy are efforts towards attaining security goals.
Cyber Security Problems

Cyber Security Problems

Cyberspace challenges some of our basic communication assumptions. Authentication problems have been treated in computer security. But cyber space also changes our notion of computation.
Adaptive Strategies

Adaptive Strategies

Game theory was developed to facilitate decision making in the Cold War. The problems of cyber security are also complex and adversarial. So why is game theory not a standard tool of cyber security?
Physical, social and cyber security

Physical, social and cyber security

Work on logics of observation and communication. More...
Creative privacy

Creative privacy

Concealing private data by restricting information flow is proving clumsy… More...
Mining dark matter in networks

Mining dark matter in networks

Networks link buyers and sellers with no previous interactions. How can I trust someone I’ve never met? More...
Economics of anti-equilibrium

Economics of anti-equilibrium

Exploring and formalising the dark side of economic force. More...
Gaming security by obscurity

Gaming security by obscurity

Adaptive attackers explore the system. Adaptive defenders explore the attacks. More...
Course

Course

Economics & Security. Sponsored by Intel. More...