Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research - University of Southampton

南安普顿专注于网络空间的安全，免受所有数字威胁，无论是恶意的还是非恶意的。我们的多学科专业知识为保护关键基础设施、用户及其数据和利益贡献了知识、理解和创新，并将电子和软件系统、先进网络和协议、风险行为、社会和法律可接受性以及物理和网络身份管理等活动联系起来。南安普顿代表了电子和计算机科学、法律、管理、数学、光电子学和心理学等12个不同研究小组的顶级研究人员的共同贡献。他们一起提供广泛的相互交织的研究，从电子（纳米）设备到（物理和网络）生物识别，通过世界领先的网络基础设施研究-即光纤，互联网和网络-使用行为和认知心理学，并部署正式和实验方法。在过去的5年里，该中心通过集团、机构和外部投资、合同和研究之间的合作，取得了巨大的发展。代表性的成就包括：安全消毒、汽车电子、侧通道分析、访问控制、软件工程工具、来源、动态信任、隐私、知识和信念。南安普顿在联合硬件/软件运营方面拥有十年的经验，在关键基础设施（通信和网络）方面拥有世界一流的专业知识，拥有最先进的内部纳米制造设施，以及在完整的循环（光电）电子，计算机科学和工程，社会和人类方面连接在一起的良好集成的研究组合。我们的愿景是通过这样的优势，并且通过这样的理解，即使是最基本的组件的外包制造也可能不明智地导致不可接受的安全风险。具体而言，我们的愿景是：-以硬件和软件一体化的方式提供安全的（嵌入式）系统及其设计方法，并专注于创造和使用增强安全性的计算机辅助设计和验证工具；-透过设计、分析、模拟和验证，确保网络空间的安全，以保障基础设施和数据、用户及其利益；-采取全面和多学科的方法，充分考虑人的方面和行为，以及社会和法律的可接受性问题；-促进卓越的研究，深入的影响，并培养一流的网络安全专家。南安普顿的网络安全由其组成小组配备齐全，并且可以依靠两个博士培训中心为网络安全博士提供有利的环境：复杂系统模拟和网络科学dtc。我们的一些研究人员最近获得了两个项目资助，支持网络安全研究，以及政府在国家安全和开放数据方面的重要政策和战略监督的咨询角色，能够提供政府，机构和南安普顿网络安全学术团队之间的渠道。总之，这标志着南安普顿网络安全成为一个重要的、成熟的、协调的网络安全学术卓越中心。目前的建议旨在为该中心争取一笔支助补助金。具体来说，我们寻求资金，以便：主任有空闲时间致力于中心的组织和日常运作；开办并举办网络安全系列讲座；促进多学科活动；参加与其他ACE-CSR的交流活动，并主办一次全国ACE-CSR研讨会；开展年度外展、公众参与和行业联络活动；开发合适的门户网站；印刷和分发小册子和宣传材料。

CyberSecurity Southampton focusses on the security of the cyber space from all digital threats, whether malicious or not. Our multidisciplinary expertise contributes knowledge, understanding and innovation to the protection of critical infrastructures, users, their data and interests, and connects activities across electronic and software systems, advanced networking and protocols, risk behaviour, social and legal acceptability, and physical and cyber identity management.CyberSecurity Southampton represents the combined contribution of top researchers across 12 distinct research groups within the disciplines of Electronics and Computer Science, Law, Management, Mathematics, Optoelectronics and Psychology. Together they delivers a wide spectrum of interwoven research ranging from electronic (nano) devices to (physical and cyber) biometrics, passing through world-leading research on cyber-enabling infrastructures - viz., fibre-optics, internet and the web - using behavioural and cognitive psychology, and deploying both formal and experimental methods. Over the past five years, the centre has developed enormously through collaboration across groupings, institutional and external investments, contracts and research. A representative sample of achievements includes: secure sanitisation, automotive electronics, side channels analysis, access control, software engineering tools, provenance, dynamic trust, privacy, knowledge and belief.CyberSecurity Southampton is unique in having a decennial experience in joint hardware/software operations and world-class expertise on critical infrastructures (communications and the web), a state-of-the-art, in-house nano-fabrication facility and a well integrated research portfolio linking together in a full circle (opto)electronics, computer science and engineering, social and human aspects. Our vision is informed by such strengths, and by the understanding that outsourcing the manufacturing of even the most elementary component unwisely may lead to unacceptable security risk. In particular, our vision is:- to supply secure (embedded) systems and their design methodologies via an integrated hardware-software ap- proach, and focus on the creation and use of security-enhancing computer-aided design and verification tools;- to secure the cyber space by design, analysis, simulation and proof, in order to protect infrastructures and data, users and their interests;- to adopt a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, which takes into full account human aspects and behaviour, as well as social and legal acceptability issues;- to foster excellence in research, depth in impact, and to educate top-class cyber security experts.CyberSecurity Southampton is fully equipped by its component groups and can count on two Doctoral Training Centres to provide a conducive environment for PhDs in cyber security: the Complex Systems Simulations and the Web Science DTCs. Some of our researchers have recently secured two programme grants that supports cyber security research, as well as Government Advisory Roles on National Security and on Open Data of considerable policy and strategic oversight, able to provide a conduit between Government, the Agencies and the academic teams of CyberSecurity Southampton. Together, this marks CyberSecurity Southampton as a significant, established, and coordinated Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security.The present proposal aims at securing a support grant for the centre. Specifically, we seek funds to: free time for the Director to dedicate to the organisation and daily running of the centre; start and run a Distinguished Lectures in Cyber Security series; foster multidisciplinary activities; participate in networking events with other ACE-CSRs and host a national ACE-CSR workshop; run annual outreach, public engagement and industrial liaison events; develop a suitable web portal; print and distribute brochures and publicity material.