Editing Ross J. Anderson (section)

===Awards and honours===
Anderson was elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2009|Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2009]]. His nomination reads:

{{Cquote|Professor Ross Anderson, Personal Chair in Security Engineering, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Ross Anderson was a pioneer and world leader in security engineering, and is distinguished for starting a number of new areas of research in hardware, software and systems.
[[File:Ross Anderson 15 June 2018 IMG 4317.jpg|thumb|alt=He is leaning back from a table with two cups of coffee/tea on it, with an enormous wall of books piled haphazardly on shelves behind him. There is also a whiteboard shown with equations.|Ross Anderson in his office in Cambridge in 2018]]

His early work on how systems fail established a base of empirical evidence for building [[threat model]]s for a wide range of applications from banking to healthcare.

Anderson made trailblazing contributions that helped establish a number of new research topics, including security usability, hardware [[Tamper resistance|tamper-resistance]], [[information hiding]], and the analysis of [[application programming interface]]s.

Anderson was also one of the founders of the study of information [[Economics of security|security economics]], which not only illuminates where the most effective attacks and defences may be found, but is also of fundamental importance to making policy for the [[information society]].<ref name="royal">{{cite web |url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27EC/2009/02%27) |title=EC/2009/02: Anderson, Ross |publisher=The Royal Society |archive-date=7 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190707222104/https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo%3D%3D%27EC%2F2009%2F02%27%29 |location=London |url-status=dead}}</ref>}}

Anderson was also elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering]] (FREng) in 2009.<ref name="RAEngReport2010">{{cite web|title=The Royal Academy of Engineering Annual Report 2009/2010|url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/25650027/annual-report-967kb-royal-academy-of-engineering}}</ref><ref name="List of Fellows">{{cite web|title=List of Fellows|url=https://raeng.org.uk/fellows-directory}}</ref><ref name="whoswho"/><ref name="cv"/> He was a [[Fellow]] of [[Churchill College, Cambridge]]<ref name="churchill">{{cite web |url=https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/people/view/ross-anderson |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016171138/https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/people/view/ross-anderson/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 October 2015 |title=Professor Ross Anderson FRS, FREng |publisher=[[Churchill College, Cambridge]] |access-date=14 May 2021 }}</ref> and awarded the [[BCS Lovelace Medal]] in 2015.<ref name=therecord/> Anderson was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2023.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://rse.org.uk/fellowship/professor-ross-anderson/ | title=Professor Ross Anderson }}</ref>