Research Institute in Trustworthy Inter-connected Cyber-physical Systems (RITICS)

值得信赖的工业控制系统研究所由五个项目组成：怀疑论者(Pi Clive Roberts，伯明翰大学)、Cedrics(Pi Robin Bloomfield，伦敦大学)、Mumba(Pi Awais Rashid，兰开斯特大学)、Caprica(Pi Sakir Sezer，贝尔法斯特女王大学)和Ritics(Pi Chris Hankin，伦敦帝国理工学院)。该研究机构的目标是解决三个关键问题：1)网络威胁对ICS和企业造成什么物理伤害？2)我们能否自信地将这些威胁表述为商业风险？3)是否有新的有效和高效的干预措施？司长从2014年1月起获得资助，涵盖这些问题的其他项目于2014年10月开始，资助期限为三年。除了支持一系列研究项目外，该研究所的目的是提供协调，以促进跨项目合作，并向实践者社区宣传研究成果。EPSRC邀请这项申请继续为协调活动提供5年的资金，使社区能够继续和扩大，并作为旨在改善工业控制系统网络安全的循证研究的英国中心。该中心将寻求为这一主题的新项目吸引资金；它的目标是成为一个开放的社区，为其他项目和开展这一主题研究的个人提供服务。通过与NCSC的讨论，我们建议将RICS的范围扩大到更一般的网络物理系统；我们将保留该研究所的首字母缩写和相关品牌，但已将研究所的全称改为值得信赖的互联网络物理系统研究所。

The Research Institute in Trustworthy Industrial Control Systems consisted of five projects: SCEPTICS (PI Clive Roberts, University of Birmingham), CEDRICS (PI Robin Bloomfield, City, University of London), MUMBA (PI Awais Rashid, Lancaster University), CAPRICA (PI Sakir Sezer, Queen's University Belfast), and RITICS (PI Chris Hankin, Imperial College London). The aim of the research institute was to address three key questions: 1) What physical harm do cyber threats pose to ICS and business? 2) Can we confidently articulate these threats as business risk? and 3) Are there novel effective and efficient interventions? The Director was funded from January 2014 and the other projects, which cover these questions, started in October 2014 funded for a period of three years. Apart from supporting a collection of research projects the aim of the institute was to provide coordination to promote cross-project collaboration and promote the results of the research to the practitioner community. EPSRC has invited this 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 for industrial control systems. The hubwill seek to attract funding for new projects on this topic; it aims to be an open community offering a service to other projects and individuals conducting research on this topic. Through discussions with NCSC, we propose to broaden the scope of RITICS to more general cyber-physical systems; we will retain the acronym and associated branding but have changed the full title of the Institute to the Research Institute in Trustworthy Interconnected Cyber-physical Systems.