Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research - University of Kent
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Kent
Department Name: Sch of Computing
Abstract
Cyber Security has been established as a university level priority area at the University of Kent. Our Cyber Security research has had a strong focus on interdisciplinarity since 2012, when the university wide Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS) was established. We believe that Cyber Security challenges cannot be solved using only technological solutions, and that we need the involvement of researchers from other disciplines. A collaborative approach allows us to benefit from, and be inspired by, theories and solutions from disciplines such as psychology, physics, biology, and social sciences. Interdisciplinary collaboration has led Kent researchers to a number of major successes in external funding.
Cyber Security capabilities at the University of Kent are on four main research themes: Authentication and Authorisation; Communication and Network Security; Security Testing and Verification; and Socio-technical Security. We also have capabilities on four other cross-cutting topics: applications of AI related technologies in Cyber Security; digital forensics and cybercrime; information hiding; and quantum cyber security. Our work on AI spans all four research themes, and covers diverse techniques including machine learning, data mining, information visualisation, discrete optimisation, and soft computing.
In addition to conducting cutting-edge research, we aim to make KirCCS an innovation and impact creation hub in Cyber Security through activities on education (e.g., supporting the NCSC-certified MSc in Cyber Security programme at Kent), public engagement (e.g., conducting Cyber Security surveys and working with public media to inform and raise awareness of the general public about Cyber Security), serving government (e.g., helping law enforcement agencies to fight against threats such as cybercrime), helping industry (e.g., providing consultancies to and co-exploiting research results with industrial partners), and technology transfer (e.g., through patenting and university spin-offs). Cyber Security researchers at Kent have an excellent track record in all these areas.
The Kent ACE-CSR will work with other ACEs-CSR to enhance the international profile of UK Cyber Security research.
Cyber Security capabilities at the University of Kent are on four main research themes: Authentication and Authorisation; Communication and Network Security; Security Testing and Verification; and Socio-technical Security. We also have capabilities on four other cross-cutting topics: applications of AI related technologies in Cyber Security; digital forensics and cybercrime; information hiding; and quantum cyber security. Our work on AI spans all four research themes, and covers diverse techniques including machine learning, data mining, information visualisation, discrete optimisation, and soft computing.
In addition to conducting cutting-edge research, we aim to make KirCCS an innovation and impact creation hub in Cyber Security through activities on education (e.g., supporting the NCSC-certified MSc in Cyber Security programme at Kent), public engagement (e.g., conducting Cyber Security surveys and working with public media to inform and raise awareness of the general public about Cyber Security), serving government (e.g., helping law enforcement agencies to fight against threats such as cybercrime), helping industry (e.g., providing consultancies to and co-exploiting research results with industrial partners), and technology transfer (e.g., through patenting and university spin-offs). Cyber Security researchers at Kent have an excellent track record in all these areas.
The Kent ACE-CSR will work with other ACEs-CSR to enhance the international profile of UK Cyber Security research.
Planned Impact
In addition to its academic impact, interdisciplinary research on Cyber Security at the proposed Kent ACE-CSR will benefit the society as a whole in at least three different ways: 1) the technical research we do will help build better technologies for protecting people and businesses in the cyber(-physical) world; 2) our work in the Socio-Technical Security theme and research done by our Associate Members from other disciplines will generate impact beyond technologies, e.g., approaches to better understanding of human behaviour, better information security management procedures and policies, better approaches to educating people and engaging end users, better cybercrime investigation and prevention methods, better privacy and data protection mechanisms improving people's lives in the cyber(-physical) world; 3) the impact creation and public engagement activities planned will help transfer our research to the real world.
Organisations
- University of Kent (Lead Research Organisation)
- National Cyber Security Centre (Collaboration)
- Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) (Collaboration)
- University of Bath (Collaboration)
- University of Oxford (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) (Collaboration)
- Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH (Collaboration)
- Abertay University (Collaboration)
Publications
Knight R
(2020)
A framework for effective corporate communication after cyber security incidents
in Computers & Security
Giasemidis G
(2020)
A Semi-Supervised Approach to Message Stance Classification
in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Zorzi C
(2023)
A Standardized and Cost-Effective VR Approach for Powered Wheelchair Training
in IEEE Access
Delgado-Santos P
(2022)
A Survey of Privacy Vulnerabilities of Mobile Device Sensors
in ACM Computing Surveys
Pattnaik N
(2023)
A Survey of User Perspectives on Security and Privacy in a Home Networking Environment
in ACM Computing Surveys
Erola A
(2022)
A system to calculate Cyber Value-at-Risk
in Computers & Security
Belen-Saglam R
(2023)
A systematic literature review of the tension between the GDPR and public blockchain systems
in Blockchain: Research and Applications
Saglam R
(2023)
A Systematic Literature Review on Cyber Security Education for Children
in IEEE Transactions on Education
Agrafiotis I
(2018)
A taxonomy of cyber-harms: Defining the impacts of cyber-attacks and understanding how they propagate
in Journal of Cybersecurity
| Title | 2024 "Creative Cyber" Exhibition |
| Description | What: In 2024 October, as part of the Cyber Security Awareness Month organised by iCSS, a "Creative Cyber" Exhibition was organised based on selected prize-winning submissions of the iCSS-KMCC-KMCS3 2023-24 CyberAnything Competition and the 2022 iCSS Cyber Security Photo Competition. The Exhibition was a major highlight of the 2024 iCSS Cyber Security Awareness Month (iCSS-CSM 2024). When: The Exhibition ran from 7th October Monday until 31st October Thursday, on working days only, between 10am and 5pm. Where: The Exhibition was taking place in Studio 3 Gallery, School of Arts, Jarman Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7UG. There were six different types of art works on display: - 19 selected prize-winning submissions to the iCSS-KMCC-KMCS3 2023-24 CyberAnything Competition - two selected prize-winning submissions to the 2022 iCSS Cyber Security Photo Competition - two art works created by Nan Xia, a PhD student from the School of Arts, University of Kent, specifically for the Exhibition - one special all-in-one art work showing all the above work, all the prize-winning submissions of the 2023-24 CyberAnything Competition and all the major prize-winning submissions of the 2022 Photo Competition - two cyber security awareness animated videos produced by iCSS in 2022 and 2023 ("How to be a cyber superhero" and "Why does cyber security matter for everyone?") - two flyers of the Exhibition, one designed by the main organisers of the Exhibition, including Milo Shen, Alex Covaci, Shujun Li and Nan Xia, and the other by Milo Shen (they were displayed at different periods of the Exhibition) In addition, the Exhibition also had a special area for its visitors to participate in co-creating a "Creative Cyber" art work at the end of the Exhibition. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | At least hundreds of University of Kent staff/students and members of the general public visited the exhibition, and it should have generated lasting impact on their understanding of cyber security and online safety. Some visitors are local school pupils and parents. |
| URL | https://research.kent.ac.uk/cyber/2024-creative-cyber-exhibition/ |
| Title | Artworks from the 2023-24 CyberAnything Competition and the 2024 "Creative Cyber" Exhibition |
| Description | In 2023-24 iCSS organised the 2023-24 CyberAnything Competition and in 2024 the 2024 "Creative Cyber" Exhibition. Both received physical and digital artworks from participants and co-organisers. Such artworks are being preserved at iCSS and some are being displayed in iCSS permanently. The video artworks can be found on iCSS YouTube channels: https://youtu.be/pEZvR9oq1Sg https://youtu.be/wYPmWBsnqnI https://youtu.be/R9aPRcQH6Vk https://youtu.be/4RMIFI5eZcU https://youtu.be/qeyfcW9Atfg |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | They have been exposed to at least hundreds of people and will continue to be seen by any visitors to iCSS, so their impact will last long. |
| URL | https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/cyber-institute-news/2024/11/03/icss-csm24/ |
| Title | Cyber Fight |
| Description | This is a drama performance and a video recording produced by an internally funded research project. It explored the possibility of using drama as a novel means for educating children and youth about cyber security and online safety. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The project was a collaboration between iCSS and School of Arts at the University of Kent, and helped engage drama and theatre researchers and practitioners about cyber security. |
| Title | GFCE Research Webinar Series#3: Launch of the "Pre-University Cyber Security Education" report |
| Description | As part of its Research Webinar Series, the GFCE launched the report Pre-University Cyber Security Education: developing cyber skills amongst children and young people " on 8 February 2022. The report was written Shujun Li Virginia N. L. Franqueira, Vince Miller and Krysia Waldock from the University of Kent, and was commissioned through the GFCE Global Cyber Capacity Building Research Agenda mechanism with support from Global Affairs Canada. The webinar was moderated by the Chair of Working Group D Tereza Horejsova and featured a presentation of the report followed by a round of questions and answers. Speakers include: • Shujun Li (Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) at University of Kent) • Prof. Basie van Solms (University of Johannesburg) • Shin Yi Lim (CSA Singapore) • Yasmine Idrissi Azzouzi (ITU) • Fanny Rotino (ITU) • Heather MacLean (Public Safety Canada) This is the video recording of the event. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The event was attended by many participants and the video is on GFCE and iCSS YouTube channels. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/h21qrjkfcmI |
| Title | How to be a Cyber Superhero |
| Description | This is an animated video that was produced by iCSS to engage and encourage young children (school pupils below 13 years old) to consider a cyber security career path, not limited to the more technical and traditional cyber security pathway. It was released on YouTube as an open resource for all to use. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | As of March 2023, the video has so far attracted over 27k videos and 60 likes. It was used at two Safer Internet Day sessions at a local school in Canterbury. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/_ogdRNNIt2Y |
| Title | How to be a cyber superhero (book) |
| Description | We partnered with Scriberia to make an animated video for young children and schools to understand more about the interdisciplinary nature of cyber security, the diverse career options and the importance of continuous learning and collaboration. The bove animated video has been converted to an e-book so that children can read it as a book rather than a video, which can help reduce screen time and engage those who like books more than videos. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | We printed hundreds of copies and distributed them to some local schools in Kent and Medway, most of which are in the receiving schools' libraries so will have lasting impact. Some copies were also given to individual teachers, pupils and parents so their children can benefit from them. |
| URL | https://cyber.kent.ac.uk/books/How_to_be_a_Cyber_Superhero.pdf |
| Title | KCSF2021 highlights as a short video |
| Description | Kent Cyber Security Forum (KCSF 2021) saw the official launch of the University of Kent's newly established Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS). Alongside carefully selected talks and panel discussions, attendees had an opportunity to (virtually) meet with a diverse range of cyber security experts from different organisations and disciplines, including researchers, practitioners, innovation experts, policy makers and end users. This is a short video highlighting some key moments of the event. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The event was attended by over 100 people and the video is on iCSS YouTube channel. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/CM3YPnRHdr8 |
| Title | Kent Cyber Security Festival 2022 video |
| Description | On 4th and 5th October 2022, iCSS held its Kent Cyber Security Festival 2022 as part of this year's University of Kent Youth Summit. The Festival was an opportunity for school pupils in years 9, 10 and 11 to learn how they can stay safe online, as well as what cyber security might mean in a personal context and as a potential future career. The highlights from the event were made into a professionally made video to document what we did and how participating pupils felt about their experience. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The event was participated by many local pupils and teachers, and the video has been on iCSS website and YouTube channels. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/JG2qmtl-ms8 |
| Title | Kent Cyber Security Forum (KCSF) 2019 video |
| Description | KCSF 2019 is a public engagement event organised by the Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS) at the University of Kent, UK. It took place on Thursday 5th September 2019 at the University of Kent's Canterbury campus. The main purpose of the event was to inform participants (organisations and individuals) about a wide range of cyber security expertise and services available. It was attended by participants from different sectors including industry (suppliers and end users of cyber security solutions and services), public sector, higher-education and research institutions (researchers and students). Alongside our carefully selected keynote talks given by world renowned cyber security experts Dr Jessica Barker and Mr Mikko Hyppönen, and also a senior speaker from the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre, a part of GCHQ), there were also short presentations, micro-consultancy sessions, stands, demos and posters from the University of Kent and other organisations active in the cyber security sector, in the form of a cyber security expo throughout the whole day. The event was turned into a professional video to record the moments permanently. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Over 100 people attended the event and the video has been on iCSS website and YouTube channel to have lasting impact. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/h8x_zavvYVE |
| Title | On-stage interview at FIC2020 |
| Description | At FIC 2020, a high-profile national cyber security event held in Lille in France, Professor Shujun Li was invited as a special guest to be interviewed on stage to express his view on cyber security and AI. The interview was professionally recorded as a video. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Thousands of people attended FIC 2020, and the video has been on FIC and iCSS YouTube channels. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/dge187PVVO0 |
| Title | Why does cyber security matter for everyone? |
| Description | The video is s produced for raising awareness of all on cyber security risks we are all facing in today's highly digitalised and networked world. The video is part of an iCSS-led cyber security awareness campaign for all staff and students of the University of Kent. It can also be used as free e-resources for all to use for their own cyber security awareness activities. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | As of March 2024, the video has so far attracted over 30k views and 21 likes. The video is used in iCSS-led cyber security awareness campaign for all staff and students of the University of Kent. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCvSaiCgFeg&t=1s |
| Title | Xcapism Learning Beat the Hacker escape room game v2 video trailer made for iCSS |
| Description | A video trailer Xcapism Learning Ltd created for iCSS to use their Beat the Hacker escape room game v2 as part of the 2024 iCSS Cyber Security Awareness Month (iCSS-CSM24). |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | It was used during the 2024 iCSS Cyber Security Awareness Month to engage staff and students of the University of Kent who tried the game. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/5Flr-jTivwY |
| Title | iCSS-KMCC-ISC2-KMCS3 "Celebrating Cyber" Event on 22nd May 2024 video |
| Description | To help raise awareness on cyber security and online safety among more people, Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) at the University of Kent, KMCC (Kent & Medway Cyber Cluster Ltd) and KMCS3 (Kent & Medway Cyber Security Student Society) jointly organised the 2023-24 CyberAnything Competition. A prize announcing ceremony was organised on 22nd May 2024 to reveal the prize winners and to issue certificates. At the event, iCSS also announced the new partnership with ISC2, and their plan to launch cyber security training certifications. ISC2 and KMCC both sent speakers to the event. A professional video was made out of the event to record how we did it and how participants were engaged at the event. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Close to 100 people attended the event, many prize winners of the 2023-24 CyberAnything Competition including two school pupils and their parents, and external speakers from ISC2 and KMCC attended the event. The winning artworks were then on display at the 2024 "Creative Cyber" Exhibition and at iCSS permanently. The impact therefore will be lasting. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/XoRLF4hmZzk |
| Title | iCSS-branded book "Ready, Get Set, Connect!" |
| Description | Working with Cyberlite Books Pte Ltd in Singapore, iCSS produced 1,000 iCSS-branded hard copies of "Ready, Get Set, Connect!", an online safety book for children of 7-12 years old, which were distributed to many local schools and parents in Kent and Medway. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The copies were distributed to many schools and parents in Kent and Medway, and have been used in class and some go to school libraries so will have lasting impact. |
| URL | https://www.cyberlitebooks.com/product-page/ready-getset-connect |
| Description | This is not a research project, but a research centre project and the funding covers managerial matters only. The main finding for this project is that we found the EPSRC funding and the NCSC recognition helped the University of Kent to grow its cyber security research, education and impact-generation capabilities significantly. A major outcome of the project is the official establishment of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) in 2021, which has now become a fully functional institute with its own dedicated physical space, admin staff and an operational budget. Another major outcome is the expansion of the former research centre's remit from research into a wide range of activities including research, education, supporting the University of Kent on improving its cyber security, and wider impact generation including public engagement, school outreach, innovation and working with public bodies. More major impacts have been enabled in 2023-24: the University of Kent was recognised as an ACE-CSE in 2023 and re-recognised as an ACE-CSR in 2024; the University of Kent became a member of CyberFirst in 2023; a number of key bodies were established to have wider societal impact - KMCC (Kent & Medway Cyber Cluster), KMCSN (Kent & Medway CyberSchools Network) and KMCS3 (Kent & Medway Cyber Security Student Society). |
| Exploitation Route | The Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) has become a useful instrument to benefit staff and students at the University of Kent, and also external people and organisations, in all areas related to cyber security: research, education, innovation, public engagement, outreach, and wider impacts. |
| Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Agriculture Food and Drink Communities and Social Services/Policy Construction Creative Economy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Electronics Energy Environment Financial Services and Management Consultancy Healthcare Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Government Democracy and Justice Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology Culture Heritage Museums and Collections Pharmaceuticals and |
| URL | https://cyber.kent.ac.uk/ |
| Description | The funding has allowed the University of Kent to significantly grow its cyber security research, educational, innovation and wider impact generation activities, leading to the official establishment of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) in Jan 2021. iCSS has become the new platform for the Kent ACE-CSR to continue its future impact beyond the funding period after 2023, and it has also become a unique example of a successful university-wide and cross-disciplinary research institute, with substantial impacts generated in a wide range of areas covering research, education, innovation, school outreach, student engagement, and public engagement. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2023 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Electronics,Energy,Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology,Retail,Security an |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
| Description | Engaging MSc and UG research students in KirCCS activities |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS), the EPSRC funded Kent ACE-CSR (EP/S018964/1), has been engaging MSc and UG research students in its activities in various ways, such as inviting them to attend research seminars and other events, providing a dedicated seminar slot for them to present their research projects, offering internship and part-time research assistant opportunities, etc. |
| Description | Master training |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Master training |
| Description | PhD student training and skill development |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | As an ACE-CSR we have been actively contributing to organising training opportunities for our PGT and PGR students, and also encouraging them to participate in externally organised events. We have regularly organised, facilitated and encouraged our PGT and PGR students to participate in cyber security challenges and competitions, and also have our own in-house CTF system called kCTF, which has been actively used in our MSc Cyber Security degree programmes. |
| Description | PhD training |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | PhD training |
| Description | Written evidence for the UK Parliament's DCMS (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) Committee inquiry "Connected tech: smart or sinister?" |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/109438/pdf/ |
| Description | iCSS research cited in plans for a new government Bill |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://research.kent.ac.uk/cyber/news/?article=3116 |
| Description | iCSS research inspires Cyber Incident Communications Toolkit for universities |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| URL | https://www.kent.ac.uk/news/cyber-security-digital-technology-and-communication/33191/kent-research-... |
| Description | #ID: Security for IoT |
| Amount | £31,753 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 07/2020 |
| Description | AISA4AI: AI-Assisted Security Analysis For Automotive Industry |
| Amount | £126,043 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Germany |
| Start | 09/2023 |
| End | 07/2024 |
| Description | ALUNA funded by European Commission Internal Security Fund (ISF) |
| Amount | € 3,599,886 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 101084929 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 05/2023 |
| End | 05/2025 |
| Description | Age estimation testing and evaluation: Ingenium Biometrics/University of Kent KTP funded by Innovate UK |
| Amount | £148,495 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | An Explainable Generic Design of Self-Evolving Intelligent Security Systems for Cyber attack Detection |
| Amount | £122,556 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Frazer-Nash Consultancy |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2023 |
| End | 01/2024 |
| Description | Assurance for quantum random number generators |
| Amount | £324,258 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2020 |
| End | 07/2023 |
| Description | Assurance for quantum random number generators |
| Amount | € 300,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | CapC: Capability C semantics, tools and reasoning |
| Amount | £485,168 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V000470/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2020 |
| End | 07/2024 |
| Description | Child-protection based strategies to fight against sexual abuse and exploitation crimes |
| Amount | € 3,599,886 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 05/2023 |
| End | 05/2025 |
| Description | Complementing capabilities: introducing pointer-safe programming to DSBD tech |
| Amount | £494,776 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | Computer Misuse as a Facilitator of Domestic Abuse |
| Amount | £16,503 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Home Office |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Continuum of Trust: Increased Path Agility and Trustworthy Device and Service Provisioning (CASTOR) |
| Amount | £349,042 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 101167904 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2024 |
| End | 09/2027 |
| Description | Countering HArms caused by Ransomware in the Internet Of Things (CHARIOT) |
| Amount | £462,814 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X036871/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 08/2026 |
| Description | Countering Harms caused by Ransomware in the Internet Of Things |
| Amount | £426,648 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 08/2026 |
| Description | Cybersecurity Skills & Education: Developing cyber skills amongst young people |
| Amount | € 50,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 08/2021 |
| Description | Digital Data Deception Technology Watch Newsletter |
| Amount | £93,959 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2020 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Dismantling wildlife trafficking cybercrime networks in Southeast Asia |
| Amount | £360,348 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | IWT079 |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Description | Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Intervention Fund Feasibility Assessment and Evaluation |
| Amount | £44,062 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Home Office |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2023 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | Enhancing Cyber Resilience of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises through Cyber Security Communities of Support |
| Amount | £691,374 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X037282/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 02/2026 |
| Description | Future Payment Systems: Data, Technology and Privacy after Covid |
| Amount | £2,530 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Gendered Narrative Analysis of Post-Caliphate Returning Foreign Terrorist Fighters and Families |
| Amount | £68,324 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Improving the Privacy and Security in Federated Learning |
| Amount | £153,347 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Germany |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 04/2026 |
| Description | Incentives for Patching |
| Amount | £5,792 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RFA1677 / PO4226779 |
| Organisation | National Cyber Security Centre |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | LLM-Facilitated and Graph-Based Analysis of Relationships Between Organisations |
| Amount | £125,668 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2025 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | ML4CI: Machine Learning based Causal Inference for Cybersecurity |
| Amount | £84,409 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 02/2024 |
| Description | Mapping PhD theses to CyBOK |
| Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Cyber Security Centre |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Mobility as a service: MAnaging Cybersecurity Risks across Consumers, Organisations and Sectors (MACRO) |
| Amount | £550,218 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V039164/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2021 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| Description | Novel Strategies to Fight Child Sexual Exploitation and Human Trafficking Crimes and Protect their Victims (Consortium grant) |
| Amount | € 6,679,500 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 101021801 |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 12/2021 |
| End | 11/2024 |
| Description | Playing Cyber Security Games |
| Amount | £72,835 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Frazer-Nash Consultancy |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | Project 'A pragmatic approach for generating synthetic data for protecting young people from online harm' funded by EPSRC via the 2023 REPHRAIN Strategic Funding call |
| Amount | £84,409 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Ransomware: The role of Cyber Insurance (RaCI) |
| Amount | £2,631 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Sophos Group |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 11/2021 |
| Description | Reward shaping for network defence based on reinforcement learning |
| Amount | £301,229 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | SERAPIS LOT 6 U112 Discovery Knowledge Graphs |
| Amount | £120,271 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Frazer-Nash Consultancy |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Description | Safe And Secure Concurrent Programming For Advanced Architectures |
| Amount | £368,112 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 02/2027 |
| Description | Safe and secure COncurrent programming for adVancEd aRchiTectures (COVERT) |
| Amount | £422,585 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X015114/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 02/2027 |
| Description | Safer online lives: use of the internet & social media by people with Intellectual Disabilities |
| Amount | £210,423 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health and Care Research |
| Department | NIHR School for Social Care Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| End | 08/2022 |
| Description | Smart Healthcare System with Federated Learning |
| Amount | € 135,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Government of France |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Description | Strengthening ICAC Technological Investigative Capacity |
| Amount | $149,982 (USD) |
| Organisation | U.S. Department of Justice |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | Symbolic Computation for Mainstream Verification |
| Amount | £77,521 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Research Institute on Verified Trustworthy Software Systems |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | TIPS in blended home-work environments: A socio-technical perspective |
| Amount | £4,413 (DJF) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | TYPDSEC: TYPe-based information Declassification and its SEcure Compilation |
| Amount | £160,392 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/Y003535/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2023 |
| End | 11/2025 |
| Description | The Cost of Ransomware to the UK Economy |
| Amount | £125,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Cyber Security Centre |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Description | The Cyber Helpline |
| Amount | £98,966 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Home Office |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 05/2021 |
| Description | Transparent pointer safety: Rust to Lua to OS Components |
| Amount | £494,770 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X021173/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | Understanding and improving help-seeking by people at risk of perpetrating online child sexual exploitation and abuse |
| Amount | £140,590 (GBP) |
| Organisation | End Violence Against Children |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 01/2023 |
| Description | Violence Against Women and Girls Perpetrator Problem Profile and Stalking Problem Profile (perpetrators and victims) |
| Amount | £46,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Mayors Office for Policing and Crime |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | Voting in Blockchain Systems |
| Amount | £29,206 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10002023 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 07/2021 |
| Title | Bystander detection in photos and related image datasets |
| Description | Source code and data of the following research paper: Yuqi Niu, Weidong Qiu, Peng Tang, Lifan Wang, Shuo Chen, Shujun Li, Nadin Kökciyan and Ben Niu, "Everyone's Privacy Matters! An Analysis of Privacy Leakage from Real-World Facial Images on Twitter and Associated User Behaviors," Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 9, Issue 2, Article Number CSCW069, 38 pages, ACM, 2025, to be presented at CSCW 2025 (28th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing), in Bergen, Norway on October 18-22, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1145/3710967 |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | A new dataset and its impact is still being monitored. |
| URL | https://github.com/Yuqi-Niu/Bystander-Detection |
| Title | CogTool+ |
| Description | Source code of the following research paper: Haiyue Yuan, Shujun Li and Patrice Rusconi, "CogTool+: Modeling Human Performance at Large Scale," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Volume 28, Issue 2, Article Number 7, 38 pages, ACM, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1145/3447534 |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | As of 13 March 2025, the GitHub repo has 1 pork and several stars, and the paper has drawn attention from other researchers. |
| URL | https://github.com/hyyuan/cogtool_plus |
| Title | Cyber Securtiy Taxonomy |
| Description | As part of a research paper (https://doi.org/10.1145/3339252.3339282), we produced a data-driven general taxonomy to cover many different aspects of cyber security information online. The whole taxonomy has been released as open data and a website is set up to allow interactive visualisation of the taxonomy. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The taxonomy was just released a few weeks ago now, so its impact is still to be seen. We will disseminate it more widely and plan to add support to allow other researchers to co-evolve the taxonomy. The taxonomy is hosted on the website of Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS), EPSRC funded Kent ACE-CSR (EP/S018964/1), and will be maintained as part of core open data from KirCCS. |
| URL | https://cyber.kent.ac.uk/research/cyber_taxonomy/ |
| Title | GCHQ Gendered narratives Project Case 1 (of 2) |
| Description | These datasets were prepared as part of a research project lead by Dr Harmonie Toros, titled "Gendered Narrative Analysis of Violent Extremism in the United Kingdom", funded by GCHQ's Research Fellowship in National Resilience scheme. The project uses two case studies - the controversy surrounding the return to the UK of Shamima Begum from Iraq/Syria and the attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand - to investigate the gendered narratives regarding violent extremism in both mainstream and non-mainstream (extremist) online communities. This dataset refers to case 1. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | We haven't been able to track the actual use of the dataset. |
| URL | https://data.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/407 |
| Title | GCHQ Gendered narratives Project Case 2 (of 2) |
| Description | These datasets were prepared as part of a research project lead by Dr Harmonie Toros, titled "Gendered Narrative Analysis of Violent Extremism in the United Kingdom", funded by GCHQ's Research Fellowship in National Resilience scheme. The project uses two case studies - the controversy surrounding the return to the UK of Shamima Begum from Iraq/Syria and the attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand - to investigate the gendered narratives regarding violent extremism in both mainstream and non-mainstream (extremist) online communities. This dataset refers to case 2. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | We haven't been able to track the actual use of the dataset. |
| URL | https://data.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/409 |
| Title | Improving Rumor Detection with User Comments: Source code and data |
| Description | Source code and data of the following research paper: Yang Xu, Jie Guo, Weidong Qiu, Zheng Huang, Enes Altuncu and Shujun Li, ""Comments Matter and The More The Better!": Improving Rumor Detection with User Comments," in Proceedings of the 2022 21st IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2022), pp. 383-390, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1109/TrustCom56396.2022.00060 |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The paper has some citations and the GitHub repo has some stars, indicating it has been used. |
| URL | https://github.com/Oraccc/Improving-Rumor-Detection-with-User-Comments |
| Title | Online Privacy Disclosure Detection with Multi-Label Text Classification: Source code |
| Description | Source code of the following research paper: Zhanbo Liang, Jie Guo, Weidong Qiu, Zheng Huang and Shujun Li, "When Graph Convolution Meets Double Attention: Online Privacy Disclosure Detection with Multi-Label Text Classification," Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Volume 38, pp. 1171-1192, Springer, 2024, accepted via and presented at ECML-PKDD 2024 (36th European Conference on Machine Learning & 28th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases) in September 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-023-00992-y |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The paper and the code has got some citations and starts, indicating some follow-up use. |
| URL | https://github.com/xiztt/WGCMDA |
| Title | Password Universe - Command-line edition |
| Description | Part of the source code of the following research paper: Sam Parker, Haiyue Yuan and Shujun Li, "PassViz: A Visualisation System for Analysing Leaked Passwords," in Proceedings of the 2023 20th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec 2023), pp. 33-42, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1109/VizSec60606.2023.00011 |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | So far we haven't seen tangible impact yet. |
| URL | https://github.com/samcparker/passviz-cli |
| Title | Password Universe - Graphical user interface |
| Description | Part of the source code of the following research paper: Sam Parker, Haiyue Yuan and Shujun Li, "PassViz: A Visualisation System for Analysing Leaked Passwords," in Proceedings of the 2023 20th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec 2023), pp. 33-42, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1109/VizSec60606.2023.00011 |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | So far we haven't seen tangible impact yet. |
| URL | https://github.com/samcparker/passviz-gui |
| Title | Recovery of Sign Bits of DCT Coefficients: Source code and data |
| Description | The source code and data of the research paper below: Ruiyuan Lin, Sheng Liu, Jun Jiang, Shujun Li, Chengqing Li and C.-C. Jay Kuo, "Recovering sign bits of DCT coefficients in digital images as an optimization problem," Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Volume 98, Article Number 104045, 14 pages, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvcir.2023.104045 |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The paper has been well cited so we envisage the code should have impacted some researchers. |
| URL | https://github.com/ChengqingLi/DCT_SBR |
| Description | CRANE NetworkPlus |
| Organisation | Abertay University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Researchers from iCSS (Institute of Cyber Security for Society) at the University of Kent helped form the CRANE NetworkPlus, and will lead some activities of the NetworkPlus. The CRANE NetworkPlus has received £6m from EPSRC, and will support a wide range of activities on strengthening the UK's cyber security research ecosystem in the next 5 years. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The five UK HEIs are leading the CRANE NetworkPlus and will work closely with researchers from iCSS (Institute of Cyber Security for Society) at the University of Kent on a wide range of activities on strengthening the UK's cyber security research ecosystem in the next 5 years. |
| Impact | £6m funding from EPSRC for five years, a community of 700+ academics from 102 UK HEIs (which will further grow), and some planning documents on how the CRANE NetworkPlus will develop itself, especially on how to set up a new learned society in cyber security research in a few years |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRANE NetworkPlus |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Researchers from iCSS (Institute of Cyber Security for Society) at the University of Kent helped form the CRANE NetworkPlus, and will lead some activities of the NetworkPlus. The CRANE NetworkPlus has received £6m from EPSRC, and will support a wide range of activities on strengthening the UK's cyber security research ecosystem in the next 5 years. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The five UK HEIs are leading the CRANE NetworkPlus and will work closely with researchers from iCSS (Institute of Cyber Security for Society) at the University of Kent on a wide range of activities on strengthening the UK's cyber security research ecosystem in the next 5 years. |
| Impact | £6m funding from EPSRC for five years, a community of 700+ academics from 102 UK HEIs (which will further grow), and some planning documents on how the CRANE NetworkPlus will develop itself, especially on how to set up a new learned society in cyber security research in a few years |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRANE NetworkPlus |
| Organisation | University of Bath |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Researchers from iCSS (Institute of Cyber Security for Society) at the University of Kent helped form the CRANE NetworkPlus, and will lead some activities of the NetworkPlus. The CRANE NetworkPlus has received £6m from EPSRC, and will support a wide range of activities on strengthening the UK's cyber security research ecosystem in the next 5 years. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The five UK HEIs are leading the CRANE NetworkPlus and will work closely with researchers from iCSS (Institute of Cyber Security for Society) at the University of Kent on a wide range of activities on strengthening the UK's cyber security research ecosystem in the next 5 years. |
| Impact | £6m funding from EPSRC for five years, a community of 700+ academics from 102 UK HEIs (which will further grow), and some planning documents on how the CRANE NetworkPlus will develop itself, especially on how to set up a new learned society in cyber security research in a few years |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRANE NetworkPlus |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Researchers from iCSS (Institute of Cyber Security for Society) at the University of Kent helped form the CRANE NetworkPlus, and will lead some activities of the NetworkPlus. The CRANE NetworkPlus has received £6m from EPSRC, and will support a wide range of activities on strengthening the UK's cyber security research ecosystem in the next 5 years. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The five UK HEIs are leading the CRANE NetworkPlus and will work closely with researchers from iCSS (Institute of Cyber Security for Society) at the University of Kent on a wide range of activities on strengthening the UK's cyber security research ecosystem in the next 5 years. |
| Impact | £6m funding from EPSRC for five years, a community of 700+ academics from 102 UK HEIs (which will further grow), and some planning documents on how the CRANE NetworkPlus will develop itself, especially on how to set up a new learned society in cyber security research in a few years |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | CRANE NetworkPlus |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Researchers from iCSS (Institute of Cyber Security for Society) at the University of Kent helped form the CRANE NetworkPlus, and will lead some activities of the NetworkPlus. The CRANE NetworkPlus has received £6m from EPSRC, and will support a wide range of activities on strengthening the UK's cyber security research ecosystem in the next 5 years. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The five UK HEIs are leading the CRANE NetworkPlus and will work closely with researchers from iCSS (Institute of Cyber Security for Society) at the University of Kent on a wide range of activities on strengthening the UK's cyber security research ecosystem in the next 5 years. |
| Impact | £6m funding from EPSRC for five years, a community of 700+ academics from 102 UK HEIs (which will further grow), and some planning documents on how the CRANE NetworkPlus will develop itself, especially on how to set up a new learned society in cyber security research in a few years |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Collaboration with NCSC |
| Organisation | National Cyber Security Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Kent ACE-CSR has been actively participating and contributing to calls and events organised by the NCSC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | NCSC is the body that co-recognises the ACE-CSR status, and has also provided constant ad hoc funding to ACE-CSRs mostly in the form of PhD studentships and summer internships. NCSC also appointed a dedicated Academic Liaison Officer (ALO) who regularly visit the Kent ACE-CSR to provide in-kind support. |
| Impact | NCSC has organised many events participated by the University of Kent and funded a number of PhD students and summer interns from the University of Kent. Our contributions and the support of NCSC involve multiple disciplines, including Computer Science, Psychology, and Engineering. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | NCSC CyberFirst Programme Member |
| Organisation | National Cyber Security Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | University of Kent is a member of the NCSC's CyberFirst Programme, which is designed to offer cyber security awareness and education activities for school pupils. This membership allows the University of Kent to run CyberFirst-branded activities itself. The membership is hosted by the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS). |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Kent is a member of the NCSC's CyberFirst Programme, which is designed to offer cyber security awareness and education activities for school pupils. This membership allows the University of Kent to run CyberFirst-branded activities itself. The membership is hosted by the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS). |
| Impact | From 24th to 28th July, iCSS hosts around 50 school pupils on the Canterbury campus of the University for a one-week-long CyberFirst Advanced Course, delivered by QA Ltd and Smallpeice for the CyberFirst programme of the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre). |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Participant of the GFCE's Working Group D: Cyber Security Culture and Skills |
| Organisation | Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Global Forum on Cyber Expertise commissioned a report from iCSS as a recently identified priority of the GFCE's Working Group D: Cyber Security Culture and Skills. |
| Collaborator Contribution | GFCE promoted the report as part of their Research Agenda 2022 with the aim to attract other researchers to develop future research on related topics. |
| Impact | Commissioned report: "Pre-University Cyber Security Education : A report on developing cyber skills amongst children and young people," November 2021 February 2022. Krysia Emily Waldock, Vince Miller, Shujun Li Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS), and Virginia N.L. Franqueira University of Kent, UK |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Partner of The Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) |
| Organisation | Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | iCSS is a partner of the GFCE, after finishing a GFCE-contracted research project on pre-university cyber security and online safety education in 2022. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) strengthens international cooperation on cyber capacity building by connecting needs, resources and expertise and by making practical knowledge available to the global community. The current focus of the GFCE is three-fold: coordinating regional and global cyber capacity projects and initiatives; sharing knowledge and expertise by recommending tools and publications; and matching individual needs for cyber capacities to offers of support from the community as a clearing house function. |
| Impact | A report 'Pre-University Cyber Security Education: A report on developing cyber skills amongst children and young people' can be accessed from https://cybilportal.org/publications/pre-university-cyber-security-education-a-report-on-developing-cyber-skills-amongst-children-and-young-people/ |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Partnership with CIISec |
| Organisation | Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CIISec is the charted institute in information security, and as part of the activities of the Kent ACE-CSR we have been working with them on cyber security education, including research-informed education. We have served as the main contact point for CIISec to reach out to our students studying a cyber security degree. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CIISec is providing extra-curricular activities to our students and also an annual award to recognise the best student project among all MSc students who did a cyber security related dissertation project (which normally involves some level of research). |
| Impact | Participation of our students in CIISec events and joining CIISec as student members. The first CIISec Best Student Project award in 2020. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with Honda Research Institute Europe (HRI-EU) |
| Organisation | Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | A research associate is employed to contribute to the project AISA4AI: AI-Assisted Security Analysis For Automotive Industry by utilising the Large Language Model (LLM) and graphical modeling to conduct privacy and security analysis for automotive vehicle centric ecosystem. |
| Collaborator Contribution | A research team consists of scientis from different diciplines are committed to partake regular project meetings for brainstorming, discussion, and research dissemination. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Title | PassInfinity: A software prototype system |
| Description | This is a web-based prototype of a new-generation password generation system supporting multiple factors and multiple different password systems. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The software is still being further developed and a patent application has been filed. Further testing and commercialisation are ongoing. |
| URL | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/80287/ |
| Description | 2019 Summer School on The Human Aspects of Cyber-crime and Online Fraud |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 15-17 July 2019: Summer School on The Human Aspects of Cyber-crime and Online Fraud, hosted at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK; funded by the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP), co-organised with the Institute of Applied Economics and Social Value, De Montfort University. This was an event jointly organised by the EPSRC funded Kent ACE-CSR and the Institute of Applied Economics and Social Value, De Montfort University. It was co-funded by the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-school-on-the-human-aspects-of-cyber-crime-and-online-fraud-ti... |
| Description | 2023-24 CyberAnything Competition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Together with KMCC (Kent & Medway Cyber Cluster Ltd) and KMCS3 (Kent & Medway Cyber Security Student Society), iCSS is co-organising a CyberAnything Competition. The competition started in late September 2023, and KMCC joined the initiative as a co-organiser and a co-sponsor in late December, 2023. We increasingly rely upon digital, networked and smart technologies such as mobile devices and the internet to live our lives. Or we can say that we are living in the Internet of Everything (IoE), a cyber-physical world where so many hardware devices, software systems, physical things, systems and people are now interconnected. However, the cyber elements of our lives and how security, privacy and safety of such elements affect our lives are not always visible or overlooked, and sometimes intentionally concealed. They are often so entrenched in our way of being that we overlook our reliance upon them until they stop functioning, e.g., when a power cut, server downtime or an empty battery hits us. This competition welcomes anything that is cyber-related in our daily lives. You can use your camera or other image-capturing device to capture a moment as a photo or a short video, or create a drawing, or prepare an infographic such as a flyer or a PowerPoint slide, or write an essay or even a poem, or make a 3-D printed object or a hand-crafted artefact, etc., which can tell a story about living, learning and connecting in the cyber or cyber-physical world in the past, at present, and/or in the future. You are also welcome to try generative AI for creating your submission, but in this case please describe which generative AI tool(s) were used and how you used it/them, e.g., prompt(s) you used to create the submission. Cash prizes Submitted artefacts will be judged anonymously by a judging panel for the following prizes in the following four categories: 1) current staff of the University of Kent, 2) current students of the University of Kent, 3) alumni of the University of Kent, and 4) other UK residents who have never been affiliated with the University of Kent. The cash prizes will be jointly sponsored by iCSS and KMCC. More cash prizes are available for sub-competitions and more may be added for the main competition. - 4 Best Overall Prizes (one per category, £80 Amazon e-voucher per prize), - 4 Most Creative Prizes (one per category, £80 Amazon e-voucher per prize), and - 8 Runner-Up Prizes (two per category; £20 Amazon e-voucher per prize). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
| URL | https://research.kent.ac.uk/cyber/2023-24-cyberanything-competition/ |
| Description | 2024 "Celebrating Cyber" event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An event organised by the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) saw members of the community come together on Kent's Canterbury campus to celebrate new partnerships, training schemes and the award-winning outputs from the 2023-24 CyberAnything Competition. The event also celebrated Kent's newly established academic partnership with ISC2, the world's leading not-for-profit member association for cyber security professionals, which will see them join forces with the KMCC to close the cyber security skills gap currently faced by businesses globally. They are encouraging people in Kent and Medway to complete ISC2's beginner-facing cyber security certification CC as part of ISC2's campaign to get 1 million people CC-certified with free training materials and waived exam fees. The collaboration will also see them deliver a pilot training course for ISC2's more advanced cyber security certification CISSP later this summer. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://kmcc-uk.org/news/icss-kmcc-isc2-kmcs3-celebrating-cyber-event-on-cyber-security-awareness-an... |
| Description | 2024 "Creative Cyber" Exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | What: In 2024 October, as part of the Cyber Security Awareness Month organised by iCSS, a "Creative Cyber" Exhibition was organised based on selected prize-winning submissions of the iCSS-KMCC-KMCS3 2023-24 CyberAnything Competition and the 2022 iCSS Cyber Security Photo Competition. The Exhibition was a major highlight of the 2024 iCSS Cyber Security Awareness Month (iCSS-CSM 2024). When: The Exhibition ran from 7th October Monday until 31st October Thursday, on working days only, between 10am and 5pm. Where: The Exhibition was taking place in Studio 3 Gallery, School of Arts, Jarman Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7UG. There were six different types of art works on display: - 19 selected prize-winning submissions to the iCSS-KMCC-KMCS3 2023-24 CyberAnything Competition - two selected prize-winning submissions to the 2022 iCSS Cyber Security Photo Competition - two art works created by Nan Xia, a PhD student from the School of Arts, University of Kent, specifically for the Exhibition - one special all-in-one art work showing all the above work, all the prize-winning submissions of the 2023-24 CyberAnything Competition and all the major prize-winning submissions of the 2022 Photo Competition - two cyber security awareness animated videos produced by iCSS in 2022 and 2023 ("How to be a cyber superhero" and "Why does cyber security matter for everyone?") - two flyers of the Exhibition, one designed by the main organisers of the Exhibition, including Milo Shen, Alex Covaci, Shujun Li and Nan Xia, and the other by Milo Shen (they were displayed at different periods of the Exhibition) In addition, the Exhibition also had a special area for its visitors to participate in co-creating a "Creative Cyber" art work at the end of the Exhibition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://research.kent.ac.uk/cyber/2024-creative-cyber-exhibition/ |
| Description | 2024 Kent Police Open Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | On Monday 1st July 2024, Dr Virginia Franqueira - Director of the University of Kent's Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE) recognised by the UK's NCSC and Deputy Director (Education) of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS), University of Kent - was present at the Open Day for Schools organised by Kent Police. The event was held at the Kent Police College in Maidstone, Kent from 9am to 3pm. Around 75 schools attended the event, adding to approximately 150 teachers and over 2,000 students of Year 6 (aged 10-11). Teachers were given a free copy of the Ready, Get Set, Connect! activity book about online safety (published by Cyberlite Books Pte. Ltd. in Singapore, branded for and funded by iCSS), were introduced to other resources created by iCSS (such as this Cyber Superhero video and an illustrated Children's book derived from the video), and were invited to join the Kent & Medway CyberSchools Network (KMCSN). The aim of KMCSN is to facilitate communication between iCSS and schools in the region to educate the next generation of cyber-aware citizens and cyber professionals of the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/cyber-institute-news/2024/08/04/icss-participates-in-kent-police-open-day-f... |
| Description | A panel discussion at Cyber Security Solutions Summit 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion on "How security leader's approach IAM in the Zero-Trust model", Cyber Security Solutions Summit 2020, held virtually online, organised by Closerstill Media |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.cloudsecurityexpo.com/the-cyber-security-solutions-summit-2020 |
| Description | ARES 2019 and CD-MAKE 2019 conferences and co-located workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 26-29 August, 2019: ARES 2019 (14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security), CD-MAKE 2019 (3rd International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction) and other co-located workshops, hosted at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. This was an event jointly organised by EPSRC funded Kent ACE-CSR (EP/S018964/1) and the SBA Research in Austria. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://2019.ares-conference.eu/ |
| Description | An invited keynot speech at CCNS 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited keynote talk "When will passwords die? Research challenges and opportunities in user authentication", 2020 International Conference on Computer Communication and Network Security (CCNS 2020), held virtually online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | An invited keynot speech at IWCFTA 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited keynote talk "Data Privacy in the Cyber-Physical World: Looking through the Lens of Complex Networks", IWCFTA 2020 (13th International Workshop on Complex-systems for Future Technologies and Applications), held virtually online |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://chaos-fractal.cn/2020/2020/invitedspeakers.html |
| Description | Animated video - 'How to be a Cyber Superhero' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | iCSS created an animated video entitled "How to be a Cyber Superhero", which was produced to explain to young children in primary schools and early secondary schools about the importance of socio-technical and multi-disciplinary nature of cyber security and a diverse range of career choices. The video was a collective efforts of academics, an ICT teacher, and two young school pupils, and professional animation video producer, Scriberia. Since uploading this video to YouTube, and after some concentrated marketing, this video has amassed over 27,000 views (at the time of writing). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ogdRNNIt2Y |
| Description | Attended Cloud & Cyber Security Expo 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Cloud & Cyber Security Expo 2023 is an event for business leaders and technology specialists, held as part of the London Tech Show. iCSS attended the Expo in order to establish connections with industry leaders and develop partnerships that could lead to future collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.cloudsecurityexpo.com/ |
| Description | CYBERSECURITY-TIPS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is a mailing list co-managed by Kent ACE-CSR for the cyber security research community in the UK. It was the result of a collaborative bid between many UK HEIs, and has been used for researchers in the community to exchange information between each other. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020,2021 |
| URL | https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=CYBERSECURITY-TIPS |
| Description | Cyber cecurity activity sheet for school pupils |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Shujun Li and Jason Nurse, "How to Beat the Cybercriminals and Stay Safe Online," Futurum Careers, Issue 4, pages 32-33, March 2020, DOI:10.33424/FUTURUM43. This article is published both in press and online, and the EPSRC funded Kent ACE-CSR (EP/S018964/1) is planning to run a number of workshops to engage with local school pupils. The article covers research done in EPSRC funded projects ACCEPT (EP/P011896/2) and PriVELT (EP/R033749/1), and other wider research at the Kent ACE-CSR. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.33424/FUTURUM43 |
| Description | Cyber security engagement event for public sector |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 16 July 2019: Network Defenders' "Hacking" competition, hosted at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK; co-organised with the EK Services and the GOETEC Consortium. This was an event jointly organised by the EPSRC funded Kent ACE-CSR (EP/S018964/1), EKS and GOETEC Consortium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Cyber security talks/webinars |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | KirCCS researcher cyber security talks/live webinars as part of the Kent Covid-19 Business Recovery Response Series, with Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Team. The primary audience was Small and Medium-scale Enterprises and it was reported that some attendees have become interested in the work of the Centre as a result. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVY2cTPBkC4 |
| Description | Dr Jason Nurse presented at The EPSRC Security, Privacy, Identity and Trust Engagement NetworkPlus (SPRITE+) Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We presented our work on conversational agents and how they raise several security and privacy concerns (considering the information they collect). These concerns were discussed with several attendees at the showcase, which led to further discussion about the increased usage of Alexa/GoogleHome etc. in the home environment. This further informed our work as it highlighted the need for more research into guidelines for developers of these devices. Furthermore, our work notified attendees of the various ways in which these devices may open them to risk (as they are used). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Expert comment for Bloomberg UK article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | iCSS Innovation Lead, Budi Arief, gave an expert comment for a Bloomberg UK article, which reported on a recent Shanghai police data breach claimed to be the largest cyberattack in Chinese history. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-05/hacker-s-record-theft-claim-exposes-dangers-of-ch... |
| Description | ISC2-iCSS-KMCC 1MCC cyber security certification campaign |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Just before the 2023 Christmas, together with the KMCC (Kent & Medway Cyber Cluster) and ISC2, KMCC is launching a campaign for people in Kent and Medway to consider taking the free ISC2 CC (Certified in Cybersecurity) certification for beginners who are interested in starting a new cyber security career path. The campaign is organised as part of ISC2's 1MCC campaign, aiming at getting 1 million people CC-certified to help fill the cyber security skills gap. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024,2025 |
| URL | https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/cyber-institute-news/2023/12/23/isc2-icss-kmcc-1mcc-campaign/ |
| Description | Invited talk at FIC 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | An invited panel discussion at the national cyber security forum FIC 2020, which was also attended by participants from other countries including some from the UK. A YouTube video was produced by FIC 2020 on the discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dge187PVVO0 |
| Description | Invited talk at Global Academic Week 2020 of DGUT in China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk "When will passwords die? Research challenges and opportunities in user authentication", Global Academic Week 2020, organised by the Dongguan University of Technology (DGUT) in China, held virtually online. This talk should have increased students' general interests in cyber security research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://gjxy.dgut.edu.cn/info/1011/1332.htm |
| Description | Invited talk at Middlesex University on HHMC in 02/2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a departmental seminar organised by the Department of Computer Science of the Middlesex University. Work in a number of research projects was included as part of the slides. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/colloquium-when-humans-and-computers-come-together-a-new-or-resurged-old-re... |
| Description | Invited talk at NCSC funded Cyber Security PhD Winter School 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk "When will passwords die? Research challenges and opportunities in user authentication", 2020 UK PhD Winter School on Cyber Security, organised by the University of Newcastle, the University of Bristol, NCSC and EPSRC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited talk at the 64th London International Youth Science Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jason Nurse, Senior Lecturer and Public Engagement Lead for iCSS, led the student debate at London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) 2022, titled 'Truth, Trust and Harm Online: Who is responsible?' Dr Nurse led the discussion by examining a statement becoming more prevalent in current society, "data is the new oil", as well the dangers of utilising data to spread misinformation or 'fake news'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/news.html/2009/COE_OpenSource/?view=3440 |
| Description | Invited talk on "Privacy through the Lens of Data Flows" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk on "Privacy through the Lens of Data Flows", part of the Cyber Quarter Seminar Series, organized by Cyber Quarter - Midlands Centre for Cyber Security, held virtually online |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.cyberquarter.co.uk/ |
| Description | Kent Cyber Security Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | iCSS held its Kent Cyber Security Festival (KCSF) 2022 as part of the University of Kent's Youth Summit. The Festival was an opportunity for school pupils in years 9, 10 and 11 to learn how they can stay safe online, as well as what cyber security might mean in a personal context and as a potential future career. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Kent Cyber Security Forum (KCSF) 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | KCSF 2019 is the 2nd annual public engagement event of the Kent ACE-CSR, and this event had a special focus on serving local businesses and university students. It was attended by a good range of people from universities, industry and government. A number of research projects and external organisations supported this event and some public media sent journalists to the event. A marketing video was made for the event which has been used to help advertise the work of Kent ACE-CSR provides to the general public. A more detailed explanation of the event can be found at the event's web page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://cyber.kent.ac.uk/events.html#KCSF2019 |
| Description | KiCCS Newsletters |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A quarterly newsletter is produced by the Centre administrator to inform professionals in the field and non-professionals of the activities of the Centre and its members. The newsletters have resulted in increased interest in and awareness of the Centre and requests for engagement, participation in events etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://research.kent.ac.uk/cyber/news/#newsletters |
| Description | KirCCS Advisory Board Meeting 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Advisory Board of Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS), i.e., the EPSRC funded Kent ACE-CSR (EP/S018964/1) was held in Feb 2020. It allowed researchers at KirCCS to engage with a wide range of cyber security professionals from another ACE-CSR (Birmingham), industry and an NGO (Cyber Readiness Institute) to discuss how KirCCS can be developed further into the next stage including the plan of setting up a larger cyber security institute and setting up new taught degree programmes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | NCSC CyberFirst Girls Competition Familiarisation Day - 20241008 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | On 8th October Tuesday from 10am until 1pm, a half-day 2024 NCSC CyberFirst Girls Competition Familiarisation Day took place at the Maidstone Grammar School for Girls (MGGS). The event has two main aims: to encourage more local schools and girls to participate in the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre)'s CyberFirst Girls Competition in 2024 (between 18th and 27th November) and in future years, and to inspire more local girls to consider cyber security and computer science for their future career. The event was organised by the iCSS (Institute of Cyber Security for Society) of the University of Kent as a member of NCSC's CyberFirst programme. In addition to the host school MGGS, the event was also supported by KMCC (Kent & Medway Cyber Cluster Ltd), two female cyber security professionals from industry, and five cyber security researchers from the University of Kent and Alan Turing Institute (ATI). It is part of the activities of the NCCE (National Centre for Computing Education) Computing Hub at MGGS, and of KMCSN (Kent & Medway CyberSchools Network). The event is also part of the 2024 Cyber Security Awareness Month organised by iCSS, which is taking place between 7th and 31st October 2024 at the University of Kent and in the Kent and Medway, with support from KMCC, KMCSN, KMCS3 (Kent & Medway Cyber Security Student Society), and iCCi (Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries) of the University of Kent. The event saw 56 girls of 12-13 years old (Year 8) from 7 local schools in the Kent and Medway region to gather at MGGS to hear about the 2024 NCSC CyberFirst Girls Competition, local cyber skills development and awareness activities organised by iCSS, KMCC and KMCSN, and also career stories of three female cyber security professionals. The event's last formal session was a hands-on session on how real challenges of the 2024 CyberFirst Girls Competition will look like to help prepare the participating girls for the Competition. The hands-on session was delivered by three young cyber security researchers, with support from all the above-mentioned female cyber security experts, Professor Shujun Li of iCSS and teachers from the participating schools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/cyber-institute-news/2024/10/11/ncsc-cyberfirst-girls-competition-familiari... |
| Description | NCSC CyberFirst Girls Competition Familiarisation Day - 20241105 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | On 5th November Tuesday from 10am until 1pm, iCSS organised a second half-day 2024 NCSC CyberFirst Girls Competition Familiarisation Day at The Folkestone School for Girls. Like the first 2024 NCSC CyberFirst Girls Competition Familiarisation Day held in Maidstone, the second event has the same main aims: to encourage more local schools and girls to participate in the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre)'s CyberFirst Girls Competition in 2024 (between 18th and 27th November) and in future years, and to inspire more local girls to consider cyber security and computer science for their future career. The event was organised by the iCSS (Institute of Cyber Security for Society) of the University of Kent as a member of NCSC's CyberFirst programme. In addition to the host school, the event was also supported by KMCC (Kent & Medway Cyber Cluster Ltd), two female cyber security professionals, three University of Kent UG/PGT students representing the CyberWomen initiative which is part of the KMCS3 (Kent & Medway Cyber Security Student Society), and three cyber security researchers from the University of Kent and Alan Turing Institute (ATI). It is part of the activities of the KMCSN (Kent & Medway CyberSchools Network), a local schools network co-founded by iCSS, KMCC and The STEM Hub managed by Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU). The event saw 42 girls of 12-13 years old (Year 8) from The Folkestone School for Girls and St. John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive School to hear about the 2024 NCSC CyberFirst Girls Competition, local cyber skills development and awareness activities organised by iCSS, KMCC and KMCSN, and also career stories of five female cyber security experts. The event's last formal session saw hands-on exercises on how real challenges of the 2024 CyberFirst Girls Competition will look like to help prepare the participating girls for the Competition. The hands-on session was delivered by Adel Elzemity, PhD student at iCSS & School of Computing, University of Kent, with support from all the female cyber security experts and two cyber security researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/cyber-institute-news/2024/11/15/2nd-2024-ncsc-cyberfirst-girls-competition-... |
| Description | NCSC CyberFirst Trailblazers and Adventurers Event - 20250206 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | On Thursday, 6th February 2025, from 10am to 3pm, iCSS organised a combined CyberFirst Trailblazers and Adventurers event at The Folkestone School for Girls. This was the first pilot of such CyberFirst courses the University of Kent ran independently as a member of the CyberFirst programme of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC, part of GCHQ). The event was organised by the iCSS (Institute of Cyber Security for Society) of the University of Kent. In addition to iCSS and the host school, the event was supported by KMCS3 (Kent & Medway Cyber Security Student Society). It is part of the activities of the KMCSN (Kent & Medway CyberSchools Network), a local schools network on cyber security and online safety education co-founded by iCSS, KMCC (Kent & Medway Cyber Cluster Ltd) and The STEM Hub managed by Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU). The event saw over 40 girls studying at The Folkestone School for Girls participating in one of the two parallel courses, and at the end, they all received their CyberFirst certificates as a proof of their hard work. The CyberFirst Trailblazers course was led by Shujun Li, Director of iCSS and Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Kent's School of Computing, with support from Temesgen Kitaw Damenu, a PhD student at the University of Kent's School of Computing, and Maryam Anwar, a Year 2 UG student of the University of Kent's School of Computing. The CyberFirst Adventurers course was led by Mihai Marin Moraru, President of KMCS3 and a Year 2 UG student at the University of Kent's School of Computing, with support from Yichao Wang, a PhD student at the University of Kent's School of Computing, and Matthew Boakes, a researcher at the Alan Turing Institute (ATI), a current Assistant Lecturer and a former UG/PhD student at the University of Kent. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/cyber-institute-news/2025/02/28/icss-first-cyberfirst-trailblazers-adventur... |
| Description | Outreach article with Futurum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | iCSS worked with Futurum Careers, a school-facing magazine for attracting teenagers to study STEM subjects, to produce two cyber security awareness articles, each with an interactive activity sheet (see below for the links and citation information), as well as a 'top tips' video that can be used to engage school pupils, parents and staff. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://futurumcareers.com/online-battles-combatting-false-information-and-reducing-online-risks |
| Description | Outreach event for local School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | KirCCS researchers presented (virtually) to staff, parents and students at a local school to share their experience on cyber security research and education. The main purpose was to encourage online safety and develop interest in a cyber security career, and to raise awareness of the centre. The event that followed (in line with Safer Internet Day) involved interactive sessions with pupils who were given different cyber security scenarios and activities to broaden their understanding and familiarity with cyber security matters. Pupils were able to immediately put into practice what they had learned and discuss with their friends and family. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Outreaching activities of student ambassadors |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A number of PhD students of the EPSRC funded Kent ACE-CSR (EP/S018964/1) have been contributing to outreaching activities related to cyber security from 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | Panel discussion on cyber security education and research at CPHC 2019 conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participated a panel discussion on cyber security education and research as part of CPHC (Council of Professors and Heads of Computing) Annual Conference 2019 at Middlesex University, London, UK. Other panelists include researchers from other UK universities and the ACEs-CSR manager from NCSC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://cphc.ac.uk/2019-cphc-conference/ |
| Description | PhD Student guest speaker on Need to Know podcast by Dell Technologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | PhD Student Clare Patterson talks to Dell Technologies on their Need to Know podcast about how organisations can learn to understand incident causation and the underlying causes of a cyber attack. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://open.spotify.com/show/44xYy4HDdLNxwBiIHsa92Z?si=Naa3MnpuT6W4_w92nMN6Cg |
| Description | Poster presentation at a Machine Learning workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This is a workshop organised jointly by the Kent Innovation and Enterprise with School of Computing, where posters about EPSRC funded project ACCEPT, PriVELT and the Kent ACE-CSR were displayed. The main audience of the event was businesses from local regions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentations at CyberFirst Girls Competition Empower Week |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | KirCCS researchers presented two live sessions as part of Cyber First's EmPower Cyber Week, five days of recorded and live events aimed at 12-13 year old girls in the UK. This virtual event included industry talks as well as speakers from the NCSC, Department of Homeland Security and other academics, covering a wide range of topics from coding to cryptography, social engineering to biometrics. Delivered sessions were on the security implications of deepfake technologies and how to perform personal threat modelling. The audience was particularly interested in how to incorporate the idea of deepfake technology into school teaching, given the potential of the technology to be used for negative purposes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WszJZQS3X2g |
| Description | PriCom 2019 conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 19-21 August 2019: PriCom 2019 (5th International Symposium on Privacy Computing), hosted at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. This was an event jointly organised by the EPSRC funded Kent ACE-CSR (EP/S018964/1), CISPC (Chinese Information Processing Society of China), Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://cyber.kent.ac.uk/events/PriCom2019/ |
| Description | Prof Shujun Li gave an invited talk at Webinaire Cybersécurité et véhicules connectés, organized by GIS CybCOM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk on "Privacy through the Lens of Data Flows", Webinaire Cybersécurité et véhicules connectés, organized by GIS CybCOM, held virtually |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://cybcom.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr/evenements/dernier-evenement/ |
| Description | Prof Shujun Li gave an invited talk at 2021 International Cryptography and Coding Frontier Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk on "Observer-Resistant Password Systems: How hard to make them both usable and secure?", 2021 International Cryptography and Coding Frontier Symposium, held virtually online |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Prof Shujun Li gave an invited talk at 2022 3rd UK Cyber Security PhD Winter School, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk "Funding opportunities for ECRs (Early Career Researchers)", 2022 3rd UK Cyber Security PhD Winter School, organized by the University of Surrey, University of Bristol, University of Kent, University of Lancaster, RHUL(Royal Holloway, University of London), Northumbria University, and NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre), UK, held virtually online |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.surrey.ac.uk/uk-cyber-security-phd-winter-school/winter-school-programme |
| Description | Prof Shujun Li gave an invited talk at AI Summit London 2021, London, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk on "From AI for Security to Secure, Privacy-Friendly And 'Good' AI", AI Summit London 2021, London, UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://theaisummit.com/ |
| Description | Safer Internet Day educational activities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | iCSS led sessions at two local schools title "How to be a Cyber Superhero." With the assistance of an animated video, these sessions aimed to raise the pupils' awareness of the risks of online false information and sharing personal data online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Set up of KirCCS YouTube channel, LinkedIn profile and new website, (including 2 short animated explainer videos) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | YouTube and LinkedIn social media channels were created and are managed by the Centre administrator to promote the activities and research of the Centre and its members, which resulted in increased engagement and recognition. 2 new animation videos were produced and listed on the new website and YouTube Channels. The first was a 'top tips' video used to engage school pupils, parents and staff, produced with Futurum Careers, a school-facing magazine for attracting teenagers to study STEM subjects. The video was to compliment the cyber security awareness article and interactive activity sheet produced last year with Futurum Careers. The second animated explainer video is hosted on the new website, and gives an easy to understand overview of the Centre and its activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt8ucQNd57cM4oGIJ4TzUqg |
| Description | TV interview on Huawei's role in 5G development in the UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An interview on UK government's announcement regarding allowing Huawei to participate in "non-core" part of 5G development in the UK, interviewed by KMTV, Canterbury, UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | When Cyber Security Meets AI Ethics: What human society will be like by 2030 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCSS facilitated a group panel discussion of experts from multiple disciplines and different sectors will discuss long-term impacts of cyber security and AI ethics, and predict how the future human society will look like in 2030, depending on how well or how badly we address today's socio-technical challenges. The roundtable discussion was held as part of Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society, a virtual conference co-organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) and Future Anthropologies Network (FAN). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://research.kent.ac.uk/cyber/cyber-security-meets-ai-ethics-2030/ |
| Description | iCCS organised the 2024 Cyber Security Awareness Month |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In October 2024, iCSS successfully organised its 2024 Cyber Security Awareness Month (iCSS-CSM24), for raising awareness on cyber security among students, staff and visitors of the University of Kent, and also local people living in the Kent and Medway region. The Kent and Medway wide activities were organised jointly with three local ecosystem building bodies, KMCC (Kent & Medway Cyber Cluster Ltd), KMCSN (Kent & Medway CyberSchools Network), and the University of Kent's student society on cyber security - KMCS3 (Kent & Medway Cyber Security Student Society). The iCSS-CSM24 saw the following activities throughout the whole October: - A "Creative Cyber" Exhibition open from 7th to 31st October, co-organised with iCCi (Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries) of the University of Kent, KMCC, KMCS3 and KMCSN - Four cyber screening nights on the last four Wednesdays in October, jointly organised with KMCS3 (Kent & Medway Cyber Security Student Society) and the Lupino Film Club - Two cyber security escape room games and a number of comic books in cyber security and online safety supplied by Xcapism Learning Ltd - One NCSC CyberFirst Girls Competition Familiarisation Day held at the Maidstone Grammar School for Girls (MGGS) for Year 8 girls studying at local schools in Kent and Medway - One cyber/AI fables event, as part of an AHRC-funded project 'Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis' led by Dr Kaori Nagai from the School of Classics, English and History of the University of Kent - The IET Jennison Lecture 2024 on "From data flow analysis to data security, privacy, responsible AI, and more", given by the iCSS Director Professor Shujun Li - A cyber security awareness webinar for local organisations, jointly organised with Eastern Cyber Resilience Centre (ECRC) and KMCC - Various student engagement activities of KMCS3 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://research.kent.ac.uk/cyber/2024-cyber-security-awareness-month/ |
| Description | iCSS co-organised and hosted the launch event of Kent & Medway Cyber Cluster (KMCC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCSS co-organised and hosted the launch event of Kent & Medway Cyber Cluster (KMCC), in the Templeman Lecture Theatre and the Templeman Atrium (part of the Templeman Library) on 14 February 2024 in the Canterbury campus of the University of Kent. KMCC is recognised by the UK Cyber Cluster Collaboration (UKC3), the DSIT-funded national body of all local cyber security clusters, as the sole local cyber security cluster for the Kent and Medway region. KMCC's main aim is to develop the local cyber security ecosystem in Kent and Medway. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://kmcc-uk.org/event/launch-event |
| Description | iCSS co-chaired 5th IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing Main Track |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCSS Director Professor Shujun Li acted as TPC Co-Chair of the Main Track for the 5th IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing, held in Edinburgh, UK and online as a hybrid event. iCSS also sponsored three awards: a Best Paper Award (Main Track), a Best Student Paper Award (Main Track) and a Best Paper Award (Experience and Practice Track). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://attend.ieee.org/dsc-2022/ |
| Description | iCSS co-chaired EICC 2023 (4th European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference) and a co-located workshop COSH 2023 (Workshop on Child Online Safety and Harms |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCSS Director Professor Shujun Li was TPC Co-Chair of PCDS 2023 (9th IEEE International Conference on Privacy Computing and Data Security) held from August 28-31, 2023 in Portsmouth, UK as part of the 2023 9th IEEE Smart World Congress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ieee-smart-world-congress.org/program/swc2023/overview |
| Description | iCSS co-chairs 15th International Workshop on Digital Forensics, co-located at ARES 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCSS Deputy Director Dr Virginia Franqueira was Co-Chair for the IoT-SECFOR 2022, 6th International Workshop on Security and Forensics of IoT, as well as the 15th International Workshop on Digital Forensics, co-located at ARES 2022, 17th International Conferences on Availability, Reliability and Security, held in Vienna, Austria. iCSS also sponsored a Best Paper Award for each workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://2022.ares-conference.eu/workshops/wsdf-2022/index.html |
| Description | iCSS established KMCS3 (Kent & Medway Cyber Security Student Society) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | iCSS established KMCS3 (Kent & Medway Cyber Security Student Society). KMCS3 is a student-facing society on cyber security, for all students studying at the University of Kent in its Canterbury and Medway campuses. iCSS supports KMCS3 as its financial sponsor and administrative supporter on various activities, e.g., for overseeing the operation, seeking and appointing its leaders, providing necessary funding and resources for various activities, booking rooms, recommending speakers and co-organising events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://research.kent.ac.uk/cyber/kmcs3/ |
| Description | iCSS hosted CyberFirst Adventurers & Trailblazers event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | On 28 February 2023, iCSS hosted about 70 secondary school pupils across two CyberFirst courses. CyberFirst activities are designed to inspire and encourage students from all backgrounds to consider a career in cyber security. The Trailblazers and Adventurers events are intended to get students thinking about how Computer Science can play a key role in future career prospects, and help them to start to consider what GCSEs they will choose. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | iCSS hosted CyberFirst Investigators course |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | iCSS hosted CyberFirst Investigators course, on9 March 2024 on the Canterbury campus of the University of Kent, and delivered by QA Ltd. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | iCSS hosted IFIP HAISA 2023Â (17th IFIP International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCSS hosted IFIP HAISA 2023 (17th IFIP International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance), from 4-6 July, 2023, at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.haisa.org/ |
| Description | iCSS hosted Kent Cyber Security Forum (KCSF) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCSS flagship annual event, held as an invitation-only workshop on pre-university cyber security skills development at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | iCSS hosted NCSC CyberFirst Advanced Course |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | iCSS hosted a one-week-long CyberFirst Advanced Course on the Canterbury campus of the University of Kent from 24th to 28th July 2023, for school pupils from local and regional schools delivered by QA Ltd. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | iCSS hosted NSS 2023 (17th International Conference on Network and System Security) & SocialSec 2023 (9th International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCSS hosted NSS 2023 (17th International Conference on Network and System Security) & SocialSec 2023 (9th International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data) from 14-16 August, 2023 at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://nss-socialsec2023.cyber.kent.ac.uk/ |
| Description | iCSS hosts 24th International Conference on Information and Communications Security |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCSS the hosted 24th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS) on 5-8 September 2022, at its facilities on the University of Kent Canterbury campus. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://icics2022.cyber.kent.ac.uk/program.php |
| Description | iCSS launched its cyber security awareness and engagement campaign for all University of Kent students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | From the Welcome Week of the 2023-24 academic year, iCSS is launching a new student engagement cyber security campaign for all University of Kent students. A major component of the campaign is a new Moodle space DP101010 "Cyber Security: Training, Awareness and Engagement for All Students", which is made open for all University of Kent students to self-enroll. This new Moodle space will be used as a "one-stop shop" for all students to learn about cyber security and other closely related topics such as online safety, cyber crime and mis-/disinformation, and to benefit from / participate in a wide range of student-facing resources / activities such as training materials and opportunities, competitions, placement and student ambassador opportunities, and a diverse range of events organised by the University of Kent and other organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://research.kent.ac.uk/cyber/news/?article=185 |
| Description | iCSS researcher interviewed by ITV News Meridian on fake QR codes and Black Friday scams |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jason Nurse, iCSS's ECR Engagement Lead and a Reader in Cyber Security at the University of Kent's School of Computing, was recently interviewed and filmed by ITV at iCSS's space in Keynes College on the University of Kent's Canterbury campus. Dr Nurse commented on how fake QR codes being used to scam people in car parks and why they are becoming so prevalent. His interview was made part of a news story of ITV News Meridian and broadcast on 18th November. Following this story, Dr Nurse was also interviewed for an ITV news segment on Black Friday scams, which aired on the 28th November. In the interview, he discussed the key scams facing individuals as they look for the latest deals, and most importantly, what members of the public should look out for in order to avoid being scammed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/cyber-institute-news/2024/12/09/icss-researcher-interviewed-by-itv/ |
| Description | iCSS set up KMCSN (Kent & Medway CyberSchools Network) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Working with two key partners, The STEM Hub managed by the Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) and KMCC (Kent & Medway Cyber Cluster), iCSS set up the KMCSN (Kent & Medway CyberSchools Network) to build a local community of schools, teachers and other stakeholders to promote pre-university cyber security and online safety education and awareness raising activities. KMCSN is a local network of stakeholders (organisations and individuals) who are interested in pre-university cyber security and online safety education and awareness raising activities for children and school pupils of all ages up to 18 years old, with a geographical focus on pupils attending a local school or pre-university college in Kent and Medway. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://research.kent.ac.uk/cyber/kmcsn/ |