EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security in Large-scale Infrastructures (TIPS-at-Scale)

EPSRC 大型基础设施信任、身份、隐私和安全博士培训中心 (TIPS-at-Scale)

• 批准号: EP/S022465/1
• 金额: $ 831.13万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Training Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FS022465%2F1
• 关键词: EPSRC; Centre; Doctoral; Training; Trust

Within the next few years the number of devices connected to each other and the Internet will outnumber humans by almost 5:1. These connected devices will underpin everything from healthcare to transport to energy and manufacturing. At the same time, this growth is not just in the number or variety of devices, but also in the ways they communicate and share information with each other, building hyper-connected cyber-physical infrastructures that span most aspects of people's lives.For the UK to maximise the socio-economic benefits from this revolutionary change we need to address the myriad trust, identity, privacy and security issues raised by such large, interconnected infrastructures. Solutions to many of these issues have previously only been developed and tested on systems orders of magnitude less complex in the hope they would 'scale up'. However, the rapid development and implementation of hyper-connected infrastructures means that we need to address these challenges at scale since the issues and the complexity only become apparent when all the different elements are in place. There is already a shortage of highly skilled people to tackle these challenges in today's systems with latest estimates noting a shortfall of 1.8M by 2022. With an estimated 80Bn malicious scans and 780K records lost daily due to security and privacy breaches, there is an urgent need for future leaders capable of developing innovative solutions that will keep society one step ahead of malicious actors intent on compromising security, privacy and identity and hence eroding trust in infrastructures. The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) 'Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security - at scale' (TIPS-at-Scale) will tackle this by training a new generation of interdisciplinary research leaders. We will do this by educating PhD students in both the technical skills needed to study and analyse TIPS-at-scale, while simultaneously studying how to understand the challenges as fundamentally human too. The training involves close involvement with industry and practitioners who have played a key role in co-creating the programme and, uniquely, responsible innovation. The implementation of the training is novel due to its 'at scale' focus on TIPS that contextualises students' learning using relevant real-world, global problems revealed through project work, external speakers, industry/international internships/placements and masterclasses. The CDT will enrol ten students per year for a 4-year programme. The first year will involve a series of taught modules on the technical and human aspects of TIPS-at-scale. There will also be an introductory Induction Residential Week, and regular masterclasses by leading academics and industry figures, including delivery at industrial facilities. The students will also undertake placements in industry and research groups to gain hands-on understanding of TIPS-at-scale research problems. They will then continue working with stakeholders in industry, academia and government to develop a research proposal for their final three years, as well as undertake internships each year in industry and international research centres. Their interdisciplinary knowledge will continue to expand through masterclasses and they will develop a deep appreciation of real-world TIPS-at-scale issues through experimentation on state-of-the-art testbed facilities and labs at the universities of Bristol and Bath, industry and a city-wide testbed: Bristol-is-Open. Students will also work with innovation centres in Bath and Bristol to develop novel, interdisciplinary solutions to challenging TIPS-at-scale problems as part of Responsible Innovation Challenges. These and other mechanisms will ensure that TIPS-at-Scale graduates will lead the way in tackling the trust, identity, privacy and security challenges in future large, massively connected infrastructures and will do so in a way that considers wider sosocial responsibility.

在未来几年内，相互连接的设备和互联网的数量将超过人类近5：1。这些连接的设备将支撑从医疗保健到交通运输到能源和制造业的一切。与此同时，这种增长不仅体现在设备的数量或种类上，还体现在它们相互通信和共享信息的方式上，从而构建了跨越人们生活大部分方面的超连接网络物理基础设施。互联的基础设施。许多这些问题的解决方案以前只在复杂程度较低的系统上开发和测试，希望它们能“扩大规模”。然而，超连接基础设施的快速发展和实施意味着我们需要大规模地应对这些挑战，因为只有当所有不同的元素都到位时，问题和复杂性才会变得明显。在当今的系统中，已经缺乏高技能人才来应对这些挑战，最新估计指出，到2022年将短缺180万人。由于安全和隐私漏洞，估计每天有800亿次恶意扫描和78万条记录丢失，因此迫切需要能够开发创新解决方案的未来领导者，这些解决方案将使社会领先恶意行为者一步，这些恶意行为者意图损害安全，隐私和身份，从而侵蚀对基础设施的信任。博士培训中心（CDT）“信任，身份，隐私和安全-规模”（TIPS-at-Scale）将通过培训新一代跨学科研究领导者来解决这一问题。我们将通过教育博士生学习和分析大规模TIPS所需的技术技能来做到这一点，同时研究如何从根本上理解人类面临的挑战。培训涉及与行业和从业者的密切参与，他们在共同创建该计划以及独特的负责任创新方面发挥了关键作用。培训的实施是新颖的，因为它的“大规模”关注TIPS，使学生的学习情境化，使用相关的现实世界，通过项目工作，外部演讲者，行业/国际实习/实习和大师班揭示的全球问题。CDT每年招收10名学生，为期4年。第一年将涉及一系列关于TIPS技术和人力方面的教学模块。此外，还将举办入门住宅周，以及由知名学者和行业人士定期举办的大师班，包括在工业设施中授课。学生还将在行业和研究小组中进行实习，以获得对TIPS规模研究问题的实际了解。然后，他们将继续与行业，学术界和政府的利益相关者合作，为他们的最后三年制定研究计划，并每年在行业和国际研究中心进行实习。他们的跨学科知识将继续通过大师班扩展，他们将通过在布里斯托和巴斯大学，工业和全市范围的测试平台上进行最先进的测试平台设施和实验室实验，对现实世界的TIPS大规模问题产生深刻的理解：布里斯托尔是开放的。学生还将与巴斯和布里斯托的创新中心合作，开发新颖的跨学科解决方案，以挑战TIPS规模问题，作为负责任创新挑战的一部分。这些和其他机制将确保TIPS-at-Scale毕业生在未来大型、大规模互联基础设施中应对信任、身份、隐私和安全挑战方面发挥领导作用，并将以考虑更广泛社会责任的方式这样做。