The internationally leading research activity at the University of Kent’s Cybersecurity centre has been recognised by GCHQ and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the award of the title of\u00a0\u00a0Academic Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security Research (ACEs-CSR). This recognition is in the first instance for a two year period from July 2015, and comes with funding for promotional and organisational activities.<\/p>\n
The announcement<\/a> was made by Francis Maude,\u00a0Minister for the Cabinet Office with responsibility for Cyber Security.<\/p>\n The University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security\u00a0Research<\/a> was established in 2012 to focus and showcase research in\u00a0this area. With the Security group in the School of Computing<\/a> and the\u00a0Intelligent Interactions group in the School of Engineering and\u00a0Digital Arts<\/a> as its technical core, it contains a wide range of technical and interdisciplinary activity in research,\u00a0enterprise, teaching, and public engagement.<\/p>\n The vision of the ACEs-CSR scheme<\/a>\u00a0is that it will assist government and\u00a0business to interact more effectively with the university sector both to\u00a0gain insight into leading-edge university cyber security research and to\u00a0help exploit it for the benefit of the UK. It is also hoped the scheme\u00a0will provide researchers at universities with better understanding of the\u00a0range of cyber security problems faced by government and business.<\/p>\n Eerke Boiten, director of the Cyber Security centre, said, ‘The Cyber Security centre has proved to be a successful breeding ground\u00a0for collaboration in technical and cross-disciplinary research.\u00a0Following significant successes, particularly in attracting research\u00a0money and in public engagement, we are very pleased to receive this\u00a0recognition.’<\/p>\n Gareth Howells, deputy director of the Centre and Reader in Secure Electronic Systems\u00a0said, ‘This external recognition awarded to the University underlines both the\u00a0breadth and quality of cyber security research undertaken within the\u00a0institution and emphasises the ability of the University to contribute\u00a0positively to an area of significant current concern to society as a whole.’<\/p>\n Other universities<\/a> with ACE-SCR recognition include Oxford and\u00a0Cambridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The internationally leading research activity at the University of Kent’s Cybersecurity centre has been recognised by GCHQ and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70,122],"tags":[37339,37411,57886,37342,142770],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}