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

在接下来的几年里，相互连接的设备和互联网的数量将几乎是人类的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，还体现在它们相互交流和共享信息的方式上，构建了覆盖人们生活大部分方面的超级互联的网络物理基础设施。为了使这一革命性变化带来的社会经济效益最大化，我们需要解决如此大型的互联基础设施带来的无数信任、身份、隐私和安全问题。其中许多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，超互联基础设施的快速发展和实施意味着我们需要大规模地解决这些挑战，因为只有当所有不同的要素都到位时，这些问题和复杂性才会变得明显。在当今的体系中，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。据估计，每天有800亿次恶意扫描和78万条记录因安全和隐私泄露而丢失，因此迫切需要未来的领导者能够开发创新的解决方案，使社会领先于意图损害安全、隐私和身份的恶意行为者，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提示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挑战，也是人类的挑战。培训包括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的创新方面发挥了关键作用。培训的实施是新颖的，因为它将重点放在提示上，这些提示通过项目工作、外部演讲者、行业/国际实习/实习和大师班揭示的相关现实世界和全球问题，将学生的学习与背景联系起来。CDT将每年招收10名学生参加为期4年的课程。第一年将包括一系列关于小费的技术和人文方面的授课模块。此外，还将举办入门住宅周介绍性活动，并由知名学者和行业人士定期举办大师班，包括在工业设施中送货。学生还将在工业和研究小组中进行实习，以获得对规模上的提示研究问题的实际了解。然后，他们将继续与工业界、学术界和政府的利益攸关方合作，为他们的最后三年制定一份研究计划，并每年在工业和国际研究中心进行实习。他们的跨学科知识将通过大师班继续扩大，他们将通过在布里斯托尔大学和巴斯大学的最先进的试验台设施和实验室、工业和全市范围的试验床上进行实验：布里斯托尔开放，培养他们对现实世界中规模上的提示问题的深刻欣赏。学生们还将与巴斯和布里斯托尔的创新中心合作，开发新颖的跨学科解决方案，作为负责任的创新挑战的一部分，解决具有挑战性的规模提示问题。这些机制和其他机制将确保TIP毕业生在应对未来大型、大规模连接的基础设施中的信任、身份、隐私和安全挑战方面发挥带头作用，并将以考虑更广泛的社会责任的方式这样做。

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.