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Centre for Secure Information Technologies - Tranche 2 Proposal

安全信息技术中心 - 第 2 阶段提案

基本信息

批准号：
EP/J006238/1
负责人：
John McCanny
金额：
$ 268.88万
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：
2012
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2012 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FJ006238%2F1
关键词：
Centre Secure Information Technologies Tranche

项目摘要

The Internet (Cyber space) is a source of infinite knowledge, an evolving artefact unconstrained by national borders, law, regulations or languages and a community with commercial, political and criminal interests. The Internet has 2 billion Internet users, there are 234 million web sites and there are 250 billion emails sent every day.It is hard to say exactly what the internet will become, but we can see a world where the Internet will be used in assisted living; allowing computers to drive our cars and monitoring and managing our health. The Internet will almost certainly also become a personal assistant; scheduling our day, advising us when we should eat, when we should sleep and what we should do. One thing we can be sure of is that the complexity and capability of the Internet continues to explode exponentially and as it does securing; information, infrastructure and citizen will need equally advanced and intelligent capability.Even though the Internet is core to a functioning society, Cyber space is not protected and cyber threats have evolved into global criminal enterprises. In February 2011 the UK Cabinet Office announced that cybercrime cost the UK £27Billion per annum. The risks associated with the Internet extend from individuals to nations. An unprotected PC can be infected by malicious software (malware) within minutes of being connected to the Internet, and last year the Stuxnet virus attack on an Iranian power plant showed that the Internet is being used by nation states for Cyber war. Internet Security is currently however either a privilege for those who are willing to pay for security tools and services, or for those with the engineering skills to understand the technology and threat. What should be done?The research at CSIT has a vision that Internet Security should be available for all. As information is travelling through the network, it should be cleansed and filtered of malware, and criminal activity policed. An analogy would lie with the provision of water as a utility. We trust that when we turn on a tap, the water we drink is safe and pure, we do not have filters at the tap. As we turn on the Internet in our homes we should also be confident that the mechanism to deliver the Internet in itself cleanses the content. At the heart of CSIT is the perennial challenge of making all of the IT solutions, of today and tomorrow, secure. CSIT is becoming a world-class Research and Innovation centre, coupling major research breakthroughs in Secure Information Technology with exciting developments in innovation and commercialisation.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.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 ensuring commercial opportunities for UK industry.

互联网（网络空间）是无限知识的源泉，是不受国界、法律、条例或语言限制的不断发展的人工制品，是一个具有商业、政治和犯罪利益的社区。互联网有20亿互联网用户，有2.34亿个网站，每天发送2500亿封电子邮件。很难说互联网会变成什么样子，但我们可以看到一个互联网将用于辅助生活的世界;让电脑驱动我们的汽车，监控和管理我们的健康。几乎可以肯定的是，互联网也将成为一个私人助理：安排我们的一天，建议我们什么时候应该吃饭，什么时候应该睡觉，我们应该做什么。我们可以肯定的一件事是，互联网的复杂性和能力继续呈指数级爆炸式增长，同时，信息、基础设施和公民将需要同样先进和智能的能力。尽管互联网是一个正常运转的社会的核心，但网络空间没有得到保护，网络威胁已演变为全球犯罪企业。2011年2月，英国内阁办公室宣布，网络犯罪每年给英国造成270亿英镑的损失。与互联网相关的风险从个人扩展到国家。一台未受保护的PC在连接到互联网后几分钟内就可能被恶意软件感染，去年对伊朗发电厂的Stuxnet病毒攻击表明，互联网正被民族国家用于网络战争。然而，互联网安全目前要么是那些愿意为安全工具和服务付费的人的特权，要么是那些具有工程技能的人了解技术和威胁的特权。应该怎么办？CSIT的研究有一个愿景，即互联网安全应该为所有人提供。当信息通过网络传播时，应该清除和过滤恶意软件，并对犯罪活动进行监管。一个类似的例子是作为公用事业提供水。我们相信，当我们打开水龙头，我们喝的水是安全和纯净的，我们没有在水龙头过滤器。当我们在家里打开互联网时，我们也应该相信，互联网本身的传输机制会净化内容。CSIT的核心是使今天和明天的所有IT解决方案安全的长期挑战。CSIT正在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。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IT系统本身必须是安全的，尤其是因为个人生物识别数据越来越多地作为解决方案的一部分推出。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的成功记录，CSIT因此非常适合建立强大的商业和学术合作伙伴关系，创造知识转移机会的持续流动，为研究转移提供可实现的短期里程碑，再加上重大突破的令人兴奋的机会，并确保英国工业的商业机会。