Bernard Dyer (MTech) is a Visiting Fellow of the Computer Security Research Centre and is an independent consultant with the LSE consultancy company Enterprise LSE. He has a background in engineering and in information systems and has worked extensively on the business impact of e-commerce within government and the private sector.

At the LSE he co-directed a Research Programme into Best Practices for Information Management and was a team member of the FIDUCIA collaborative project concerned with modelling risk in public key infrastructures. Other projects include ARION, an EU funded project, that is aiming to provide a new generation of digital library services for the searching and retrieval of digital scientific collections, and SHAPE – GLOBAL that is dealing with financial regulation and profiling in anti-money laundering,

He published, in conjunction with Bill Mayon-White, the "Principles of Good Practice for Information Management" - BSI DISC PD0010 that have been incorporated into the "BSI Code of Practice for Legal Admissibility and Evidential Weight of Information Stored on Electronic Management Systems" published as BSI DISC PD0008. He is a co-author of this Code of Practice and the associated “Compliance Workbook” BSI DISC PD0009.