Education

Doctor of Philosophy within Security Informatics (2005)
The Department of Computer and Systems Sciences
Stockholm University / Royal Institute of Technology

Licentiate of Philosophy within Security Informatics (2002)
The Department of Computer and Systems Sciences
Stockholm University / Royal Institute of Technology

Linguistics (1997)
Stockholm University

Logic (1996)
Stockholm University

Ceramics
Virginska Konstskolan, Örebro

Film
Stockholms Filmskola, Stockholm

Art
Konstskolan Grundis, Stockholm

Art
Konstskolan Basis, Stockholm

Work

Developer and co-ordinator of bachelor program in computer game development at DSV
Developer and co-ordinator of bachelor program in multimedia pedagogy-technique at DSV

Course developer, lecturer and co-ordinator at DSV

Doctoral student at the department of Computer and Systems Sciences
Stockholm University / Royal Institute of Technology

- Lecurer and course developer within Security Informatics
- Lecturer, Programming (Pascal)
- Lecturer, OO-Programming (Java)
- Development of Systems for Communication
Lecturer in:
- Flash, ActionScript
- Director
- Authorware
- Application development
- Game development

- Developer and responsible for the information of Security informatics laboratory (FirstClass och Internet)

Guide, Stiftelsen Skansen, Stockholm

Försäljare, Systembolaget, Vaxholm, Örebro, Stockholm

Data- och Mediatekniker, MSI Video AB,Täby

Tekniker, Ing.fa. Studio Teleting, Åkersberga

Computers and Software

Computer systems -
Apple Macintosh, PC, Unix

Applications -
Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), Adobe ( Photoshop, PageMaker, FrameMaker, GoLive, Illustrator, Acrobat), Macromedia (Authorware, Director, Lingo, Freehand, Flash), Metrowerks, VisualCafe, VisualWorks, MCL, mm.

Computer languages -
ActionScript, Smalltalk, Python, CommonLisp, Java, tcl/tk, c++, Pascal, Cobol, Perl, Prolog

Presentations

Presenter at Nordsec 2002 conference
Presenter at WISE 2 conference
Presenter at SWITS 1 conference
Presenter at Industritjänstemannaförbundet
Presenter at Riksdagens Företagarförening
Presenter at Nordsec 2000 conference
Presenter at WISE 1 conference

Assignments

Co-worker and referee in bachelor program at DSV
Co-worker and referee in the development of DSV web site
Co-worker and referee in bachelor program in IT and communications science at DSV
Co-worker and referee at SBA Utbildning

Why information security?

In order to make computers communicate with each other they have to be connected. This connection is called a network. Instead of developing, build and maintain our own expensive networks across the continents Internet is used and shared with everyone connected, at all times, across the world, with the population of the whole world as potential customers, at the same time. This creates lots of new possibilities and unfortunately lots of new problems that need to be considered and solved.

When we start using Internet as a business tool there are certain security requirements we have to fulfil.

- Only right persons access right services and documents.

- None unauthorized should be able to intercept a communication.

- The information cannot be falsified.

- Business agreements and documents can be verified and connected to the right persons in such a manner the persons cannot deny his/her actions.

The dominated trend, at present, is to solve this by means of public key infrastructure - PKI. Simplified, this means to create unique cryptographic keys for every user so they can be identified through using this key. These personal keys have to be kept secret from others. They can be stored in a computer or on a diskette but for security reasons they should be protected on a tamper proof smart card. This card can be designed to electronically identify a unique person, an electronic identity card.

Research area
Today, we have technologies to solve those security functions that are needed to guarantee the requirements of a secure information structure in a modern IT environment. Unfortunately, this is not enough if the user of such information is not using or understanding these technologies. People learn in different ways - we need teaching strategies that correspond with individuals' learning strategies in such manner the individual will understand why, when and how to use security functions
I am trying to find effective methods to raise the common IT security awareness within organisations.

Multimedia Pedagogy-Technique

Joint university program between the department of computer and systems sciences and
the department of pedagogy, Stockholm university.
Developer and coordinator

Courses at DSV
Digital medieteori, (MM-DMT)
Digital medieproduction, (MM-DMP)
Programming for medieproduction, (MM-PMP)
Animation, (MM-ANI)
Digital communication in multimedia, (MM-DKT)
Application development in multimedia, (MM-APU)
Project in multimedia, (MM-PRJ)
Design of interactive environments, (MM-DIM)

[Link to Program description / Länk till Kurssida]

Computer Game Development

Developer and coordinator

Courses at DSV within the program
År 1, 40 poäng
SP1 Introduktion till spelkonstruktion, 5 poäng.
SP:DA Datorsystem I, 4 poäng.
SP:UPP Uppgift i datorspelsutveckling, 1 poäng.
GK:OOS Objektorienterad analys och design, 4 poäng.
GK:OOP Objektorienterad programmering, 6 poäng.
FK:DB Modeller och databaser, 5 poäng
Momentbeskrivning
Mint SP Medieteknik för internet, spelutveckling, 5 poäng
Momentbeskrivning
FK:VEK Vetenskaplig kommunikation, 4 poäng
Momentbeskrivning
FK:OOP Objektorienterad programmering, 6 poäng
Momentbeskrivning

År 2, 40 poäng
C-programmering eller Internetprogrammering I, 5 poäng
Momentbeskrivning presenteras senare
SP2 Spelkonstruktion, 5 poäng.
SP3 3D-grafik för datorspelsutveckling, 5 poäng.
SP4 Artificiell intelligens (AI) i spel, 5 poäng.
SP5 Onlinespel, spelcommunities och reklamspel, 5 poäng
SP6 Datorspelsprogrammering mot 3D-API:er, 5 poäng
Examensarbete, 10 poäng

[Link to Program description / Länk till Kurssida]

Fundemental Security Informatics

DSV SI1, Säk1b, KTH 2I4075, 2I1516, 2I1501part2, 2I1273, 2I1030
Lecturer, developer and coordinator
[Link to Course description / Länk till Kurssida]

Communication Security

DSV SI3, Säk2b, KTH 2I7045, 2I1037
Guest lecturer
[Link to Course description / Länk till Kurssida]

Information Security

DSV MIT33, KTH 2I4014, 2I1662
Guest lecturer
[Link to Course description / Länk till Kurssida]

Fundemental Programming-Pascal

DSV1:P1, GK:P
Lecturer
[Link to Course description]

Object Oriented Programming-Java

DSV1:P2, FK:P
Lecturer
[Link to Course description]

Construction of Communicative Systems

DSV ITK:KAK
Lecturer, developer and coordinator
[Link to Course description]

Game construction

DSV SP:SP2
Lecturer, developer and coordinator
[Link to Course description]

Digital multimedia

DSV MM:DMT
Lecturer, developer and coordinator
[Link to Course description]

Production of digital multimedia

DSV MM:DMP
Developer and coordinator
[Link to Course description]

Programming of multimedia production

DSV MM:PMP
Lecturer, developer and coordinator
[Link to Course description]

Animation

DSV MM:ANI
Developer and coordinator
[Link to Course description]

1998

Näckros, K. (1998). Ökat säkerhetsmedvetande med hjälp av datorspel. A report for the project 'Increased security awareness utilising computer games', Seclab vid Institutionen för Data- och Systemvetenskap(DSV) / Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan(KTH).

1999

Näckros, K. (1999). Approaching the concept of IT-security for young users. WISE1: Proceedings for the IFIP TC11 WG11.8 First World Conference on Information Security Education, 17-19 June 1999, Kista, Sweden, pp.237-46.

2000

Näckros, K. (2000). Using Computer Games in IT Security Education - preliminary results of a study. Nordsec2000: Proceedings of the fifth Nordic Workshop on Secure IT systems - encouraging co-operation, 12-13 October, 2000, Reykjavik, Iceland, pp.251-8.

2001

Näckros, K. (2001). Game-Based Learning within IT Security Education. Wise2: Proceedings for the IFIP TC11 WG11.8 Second World Conference on Information Security Education, 12-14 July 2001, Perth, Australia, pp.243-60, School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia.

Näckros, K. (2001). Game-Based Instruction within IT Security Education. Department of Computer & Systems Sciences(DSV), Report Series: No-01-018-DSV-SU. Kista, Sweden, Stockholm University (SU)/ Royal Institute of Technology(KTH).

2002

Näckros, K. (2002). Empowering Users to become Effective Information Security and Privacy Managers in the Digital world through Computer Games. CSCW2002: Proceedings of the workshop in Privacy in Digital Environments, 16 November 2002, New Orleans, United States of America.

Näckros, K. (2002). Using Computer Games in IT Security Education -Analyses and Continuation. NORDSEC 2002- 7th Nordic Workshop on Secure IT Systems, 7-8 November 2002, Karlstad University, Sweden.

2004

Näckros, K. and L. Yngström (2004). Applied holistic approach for security awareness and training. In ISSA2004: Proceedings for the fourth annual conference ISSA in IT Security., Johannesburg, South Africa, 2004.

2005

Näckros, K. (2005). Visualising Security through Computer Games: Investigating Game-Based Instruction inICT Security: an Experimental Approach. Ph.d. thesis: Report series no. 05-014, isbn 91-7155-077-1, issn 1101-8526, isrn su-kth/dsv/r-05/14-se, Stockholm University (SU) / Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 2005.