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Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT)

安全信息技术中心 (CSIT)

基本信息

批准号：
EP/H049606/1
负责人：
John McCanny
金额：
$ 344.67万
依托单位：
Queen's University Belfast
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2010
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2010 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FH049606%2F1
关键词：
Centre Secure Information Technologies CSIT

项目摘要

Recently the media has been awash with reports on the downloading and sharing of music files, a crisis which strikes at the economic viability of the entire global music industry. This is a startling reminder of the security challenges posed, in both the civil and criminal domains, as we move relentlessly to a world in which all Information Technology is fully connected, facilitated by the development and rapid uptake of Web 2.0. This, and its successors, will radically transform society in a way unimaginable a decade ago. However, with the accrued benefits come major threats in terms of privacy, security of information and vulnerability to external attack. Threats range, in the criminal domain, from the petty criminal stealing credit card details, through trouble making hacktivists, who attack organisations to further political aims, to the sinister cyber-terrorists, who attack strategic targets in the same way that terrorists would bomb and destroy national infrastructure. At the heart of the CSIT project is the perennial challenge of making all of the IT solutions, of today and tomorrow, secure. CSIT will be a world-class Research and Innovation centre coupling major research breakthroughs in Secure Information Technology with exciting developments in innovation and commercialisation.Information Technology in the widest sense deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, analyze, transmit, and retrieve information. So, the IT field covers every aspect of data processing from the banking using one's home PC with its (increasingly wireless) broadband connection, through to the complex systems which control and manage the world's aviation, maritime and telecommunications systems. As anyone who has had a virus, worm, Trojan or spyware on their home PC can readily testify, security is an essential requirement for any IT systems in order to retain privacy, integrity and trust. When electronic sensor devices and CCTV cameras are networked and combined with computer processing, IT then becomes a power enabling tool in the field of physical infrastructure protection, which includes fire monitoring, asset tracking and intrusion detection. Thus while IT security itself is often a matter of defending against automated attack by viral programs, IT for asset protection is a tool to assist the human operator. The IT systems used for infrastructure systems must themselves be secure not least because personal biometric data is increasingly being rolled out as a part of the solution.IT systems are analysed into a stack of independent layers along lines defined in international standards. CSIT staff are world leaders in academic research in these layers, an attribute which is reflected in the four initial fields of academic research: data systems, networks, wireless and intelligent surveillance. However a key distinguishing feature of CSIT is the fact that it understands, because of its history, the necessity to ultimately take a the holistic, or systems engineering, perspective in order to research and develop the creation of complete secure IT systems, which undoubtedly are greater than the sum of their layers. The involvement of many industrial partners in CSIT bears witness to this.The driving goal for CSIT is to strategically position U.K. industry at the forefront of the field of secure IT because this field is a critical, emerging and rapidly growing sector with its wider benefits for the safety and security of society. Embedded within Queen's University, with its very successful record of industrial collaboration and spin-out company formation, CSIT therefore lends itself well to a strong business and academic partnership, creating a continuous flow of knowledge transfer opportunities, with realizable shorter term milestones for transfer of the research, coupled with exciting opportunities for major breakthroughs and ensuing commercial opportunities for UK industry.

最近，媒体上充斥着关于音乐文件下载和共享的报道，这场危机打击了整个全球音乐产业的经济活力。这是一个令人震惊的提醒所构成的安全挑战，在民事和刑事领域，因为我们无情地移动到一个世界中，所有信息技术是完全连接的，促进了Web 2.0的发展和快速吸收。这一点，以及它的后继者，将以十年前无法想象的方式彻底改变社会。然而，随着累积的好处，在隐私、信息安全和易受外部攻击方面也带来了重大威胁。在犯罪领域，威胁的范围很广，从窃取信用卡详细信息的小罪犯，到制造麻烦的黑客活动家，他们攻击组织以达到进一步的政治目的，到邪恶的网络恐怖分子，他们以恐怖分子轰炸和摧毁国家基础设施的方式攻击战略目标。CSIT项目的核心是使现在和未来的所有IT解决方案安全的长期挑战。CSIT将成为一个世界级的研究和创新中心，将安全信息技术的重大研究突破与创新和商业化的令人兴奋的发展结合起来。最广泛意义上的信息技术涉及使用电子计算机和计算机软件来转换，存储，分析，传输和检索信息。因此，IT领域涵盖了数据处理的各个方面，从使用家庭PC的银行业务（越来越多的无线）宽带连接，到控制和管理世界航空，海事和电信系统的复杂系统。任何在家用PC上安装过病毒、蠕虫、特洛伊木马或间谍软件的人都可以很容易地证明，为了保持隐私、完整性和信任，安全性是任何IT系统的基本要求。当电子传感器设备和闭路电视摄像机联网并与计算机处理相结合时，IT将成为物理基础设施保护领域的强大工具，包括火灾监控，资产跟踪和入侵检测。因此，虽然IT安全本身通常是防御病毒程序自动攻击的问题，但资产保护IT是帮助人类操作员的工具。用于基础设施系统的信息技术系统本身必须是安全的，尤其是因为个人生物特征数据越来越多地被作为解决方案的一部分推出。信息技术系统被分析为一个独立的层堆栈，沿着国际标准定义的路线。CSIT的员工在这些层面的学术研究方面处于世界领先地位，这一属性反映在学术研究的四个初始领域：数据系统，网络，无线和智能监控。然而，CSIT的一个关键区别特征是，由于其历史，它理解最终采取整体或系统工程观点的必要性，以便研究和开发完整安全IT系统的创建，这无疑大于其层的总和。CSIT的众多行业合作伙伴的参与证明了这一点。CSIT的驱动目标是在战略上定位英国。安全IT行业处于安全IT领域的最前沿，因为这一领域是一个关键的、新兴的和快速增长的行业，其对社会安全和保障的好处更广泛。嵌入在女王大学内，凭借其在工业合作和分拆公司形成方面非常成功的记录，CSIT因此非常适合建立强大的商业和学术伙伴关系，创造知识转移机会的持续流动，具有可实现的短期研究转移里程碑，再加上重大突破的令人兴奋的机会，并为英国工业带来商业机会。