Richard Macfarlane
Lecturer
Rich Macfarlane has been a Lecturer in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University since 2009. Working within the Centre for Networking, Distributed Computing and Security research group. Teaching and research in the areas of Computer and Network Security, Digital Forensics, Cloud Computing, Networking, and Software Engineering.
Areas of Expertise 
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Our future society, and its economy, will be built within a seamless environment of networked information resources. IIDI's Network Theme has been created to meet the demands of this society. Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai leads the Network Theme, which seeks to develop local human capital in the fields of...
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Electronic information now plays a vital role in almost every aspect of our daily lives. So the need for a secure and trustworthy online infrastructure is more important than ever. without it, not only the growth of the internet but our personal interactions and the economy itself could be at risk.
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The institute's expertise in software engineering encompasses the entire development lifecycle, and we focus on the approaches and tools to improve the engineering process of both emerging and widely used software systems. Increasing the productivity and improving the quality of software remains a...
Contact
r.macfarlane@napier.ac.uk
+44 (0)131 455 2335
Room C43
Merchiston Campus
10 Colinton Road
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
Recent Publications
Buchanan, W., Macfarlane, R., Clayton, J. (2013). Experimental Evaluation of Disk Sector Hash Comparison for Forensic Triage using a Bloom Filter. In: CyberForensics 2013.
Penrose, P., Macfarlane, R., Buchanan, W. (2013). Novel Approaches to the Classification Of High Entropy File Fragments. Digital Investigator.
Buchanan, W., Macfarlane, R., Graves, J., Fan, L., Ekonomou, E., Bose, N. (2012). Cloud Forensics. In: .
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