📋 Tender Overview
Funded Value5964769Funded PeriodOct 19 - Mar 28FunderEPSRCProject StatusActiveProject CategoryTraining GrantProject ReferenceEPS0218171The 2015 UK National Security Strategy identifies cyber security as one of the top four UK national security priorities. The UK National Cyber Security Strategy 2016-2021 NCSS has an underlying vision to make the UK secure and resilient to cyber threats prosperous and confident in the digital world. It is widely recognised that the UK indeed the world is short of cyber security specialists. Cyber security is genuinely cross-disciplinary. Its about technology and the networks and systems within which technology is deployed. But its also about society and how it engages with technology. Researching the right questions requires researchers to fully understand the integrated nature of the cyber security landscape. A CDT provides the perfect vehicle within which suitably broad training can be provided. The establishment of a cohort of researchers with different backgrounds and experience allows this knowledge to be cultivated within a rich environment where the facts of hard science can be blended with the perspectives and nuances of more social dimensions. While society has made progress in developing the technology that underpins security privacy and trust in cyberspace we lag behind in our understanding of how society engages with this technology. Much more fundamentally we dont even really understand how society engages with the concepts of security privacy and trust in the first place. We will host a CDT in Cyber Security for the Everyday which signals that research in our CDT will focus on the technologies deployed in everyday digital systems as well as the everyday societal experience of security. Research in our CDT will investigate the security of emerging technologies. As cyberspace continues to evolve so too do the technologies required to secure its future. Research topics include the cryptographic tools that underpin all security technologies the security of the systems within which these tools are deployed the use of artificial intelligence to aid discovery of system vulnerabilities and security and privacy of everyday objects which are becoming embedded in cyberspace. Our CDT will also research how to secure cyber societies. Securing increasingly networked automated and autonomous societies requires an integrated research approach which engages the social technological cultural legal social-psychological and political on equal terms. Research topics include exploring state institutional and corporate responsibility over how information is gathered and used investigating how cyber security is perceived understood and practiced by different communities and researching how social differences and societal inequalities affect notions of and issues relating to cyber security.Our training programme will be based around a suite of relevan
