Dr. Sandra Scott-Hayward, CEng, is a Research Fellow in the Network Security research cluster at the Centre for Secure Information Technology (CSIT), Queen’s University Belfast. She has experience in both research and industry, having worked for a number of years as a Systems Engineer and Engineering Group Leader with Airbus and having completed her Ph.D. at Queen’s University Belfast. At CSIT, Sandra leads research and development of network security architectures and protocols for software-defined networks.