Research Institute in Science of Cyber Security (RISCS) Phase 2

数字经济是英国经济增长战略的关键组成部分。但随着越来越多的企业进入数字空间，它们需要能够保护自己的资产(如知识产权)和流程(如支付和客户详细信息)。网络安全是RCUK冲突、犯罪和安全伙伴关系的三个核心领域之一，将在RISCS框架下进行的研究重点是开发在现代组织背景下有效的安全解决方案。提供准确和有意义的指标来衡量安全措施的影响(积极和消极)，并开发预测这种影响的模型和工具，是我们研究工作的核心。RISCS最初由EPSRC、GHCQ和BIS资助，为期3.5年，由4个项目和1项协调活动组成。协调活动的目的是建立一个由参与4个资助项目的研究人员组成的社区，以便相互接触(分享数据收集、设计和评估解决方案的办法)，并与安全从业人员交流(了解他们面临的挑战，并努力应用项目开发的知识和方法)。EPSRC已邀请申请将协调活动的资金再持续5年，使社区能够继续和扩大，并成为旨在改善组织网络安全的循证研究的英国中心。该中心将寻求为关于这一主题的新项目吸引资金，并为其他项目和进行这一主题研究的个人提供一个家。

The Digital Economy is a key part of the strategy for UK economic growth. But as more businesses move into the digital space, they need to be able to protect their assets (such as their Intellectual Property) and processes (such as payment and customer details). Cyber security is one of the 3 core areas in RCUK's Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security, and the research that will be undertaken under the umbrella of RISCS is focused on developing security solutions that are effective in the context of modern organisations. The provision of accurate and meaningful metrics to measure the impact (positive and negative) of security measures, and developing models and tools for predicting the such impact, is at the core of the our research endeavour. RISCS was intially funded for 3.5 years funded by EPSRC, GHCQ and BIS, consists of 4 projects and a coordination activity. The aim of the coordination activity was to build a community of the researchers involved in the 4 funded projects to engage with each other (to share approaches to data collection, devising and evaluating solutions) and with security practitioners (to understand the challenges they face, and try to apply knowledge and methods developed by the projects). EPSRC has invited an application to continue the funding for the coordination activity for a further 5 years, to enable the community to continue and expand, and serve as a UK hub for evidence-based research aiming to improve cyber security in organisations. The hub will seek to attract funding for new projects on this topic, and offering a home for other projects and individuals conducting research on this topic.