Professor Sadie Creese

Sadie Creese is a Professor of Cyber Security in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford where she teaches threat detection, risk assessment and operational aspects of cyber security. She is also the founding Director of the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at the Oxford Martin School and holds the position as an Advisory Board member at the OCSC.

Her current research portfolio includes developing mathematical models for calculating Cyber-Value-at-Risk for an organisation, threat modelling and intrusion detection including insiders, visual analytics for understanding and communicating cyber security postures, logics for predicting risk propagation, resilience strategies, privacy vulnerability, threats to distributed ledgers, and understanding the nature of cyber-harm. She also researches what constitutes cyber security capacity for a nation, and how to deliver it, working with international organisations, nations, practitioners and academics around the world.

She is Principal Investigator on the AXIS Insurance Company-sponsored project ‘Analysing Cyber Value-at-Risk’ focused on developing a method for predicting the range of potential losses arising from cyber-attacks taking account of risk control practices.

She was the founding Director of the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC) at the Oxford Martin School and continues to serve as a Director. She was the founding Director of Oxford’s Cybersecurity network launched in 2008 and now called CyberSecurityOxford, and is a member of the Advisory Board for the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity. Sadie is a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.