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

在整个大学的一系列部门合作，我们正在开发一个网络安全中心。它将整合并扩展来自计算机科学，牛津互联网研究所和牛津电子研究中心的11位学者的工作，以及来自我们所能管理的广泛学科的其他牛津学者。考虑到进行真正的跨学科研究的已知困难（包括寻找资金，寻找出版场所，以及开展每个贡献学科公认的前沿研究的挑战），我们就如何使这种参与富有成效进行了详细的咨询。 因此，我们预计我们的新中心将既有真实的又有虚拟的存在。作为一个真实的中心，计算机科学系提供办公空间-最终为所有希望分享网络安全研究专业知识的人提供办公空间。我们打算扩大这两个实验室空间的实验工作与安全系统，也主机环境中的可用性实验和评估可以进行。我们还将接待来自学术界，工业界和政府的访问研究人员，并将根据需要举办短期，密集的邀请研讨会。这种同处一处的措施对于发展偶然的对话和研究思路至关重要。虚拟存在将使我们能够将其他部门的成员整合到网络安全活动中，而不会迫使他们与自己的学科失去联系。这对个人自身的职业发展很重要，但也是为了使最好的生活奖学金能够对这一领域遇到的困难问题产生影响。通过积极维护这些学术联系，我们希望能够形成合作，以应对新的研究挑战，并前瞻性地探索和塑造对开放问题的反应。随着越来越多的学科-在学术界和外部-依赖于强大的互联性和共享数据，我们认为我们现有的跨部门共享活动只是未来可能影响路径的影子。作为卓越的中心，我们的目标是成为那些内外寻求与网络安全领先的研究搞大学的主要接触点。我们将积极寻求发展新的伙伴关系，以涵盖必要的学科范围，从而对网络安全的理论、技术、技巧、政策和实践的改进产生重大影响。

In collaboration with a range of departments across the University, we are developing a Cyber Security Centre. It will incorporate and extend the work of eleven academics drawn from Computer Science, Oxford Internet Institute and Oxford e-Research centre, together with other Oxford Academics from as wide a spectrum of disciplines as we can manage. Mindful of the known difficulties of pursuing genuine inter-disciplinary research (including the challenges of finding funding, finding publication venues, and undertaking research recognised as leading-edge by each of the contributing disciplines), we have consulted at some length on the means to make such engagement fruitful. As a result, we anticipate that our new Centre will have both a real and a virtual existence. As a real centre, the Computer Science department provides office space - eventually co-located for all who wish to share expertise in Cyber Security Research. We intend to expand this to provide both laboratory space for experimental work with security systems, and also to host environments where usability experiments and evaluations can be undertaken. We will also offer to host visiting researchers from academia, industry, and government, and will hold short, intensive by-invitation workshops as the need arises. A measure of co-location of this kind is essential for the development of serendipitous conversations and research ideas. A virtual existence will enable us to integrate members of other departments into the Cyber Security activity, without forcing them to lose touch with their own disciplines. This is important both for individuals' own career development, but also in order that the best live scholarship can be brought to bear upon the difficult problems encountered in this domain. By actively maintaining these academic connections, we expect to be able to form collaborations to respond to new research challenges, and prospectively to explore and shape responses to open problems. As more and more disciplines - in academia and outside - depend on strong inter-connectivity and shared data, we see our existing shared activity across departments as a mere shadow of possible paths to impact in the future. As a centre of excellence, we will aim to be a principle point of contact for those inside and outside the University seeking to engage with leading research in Cyber Security. We will actively seek to develop new partnerships to embrace the range of disciplines necessary to make a significant impact in the improvement of theory, technology, techniques, policies and practice in cyber security.