Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research - Queen's University Belfast

我们的世界变得越来越数字化，影响着我们的沟通方式，管理财务，获得医疗保健，甚至与家用设备互动。随着我们越来越多的信息以数字方式保存，并在多个设备和云中连接，新的重大网络安全挑战正在出现。我们如何安全地处理和传输由公民、企业和政府创建的大量信息？我们如何满足对创新技术和解决方案的需求，以应对这一威胁？我们如何培养下一代行业领导者、新企业和熟练的劳动力，以满足全球对网络安全专家日益增长的需求？这些都是CSIT每天都在应对的一些全球性挑战。CSIT在2015年被授予高等和继续教育女王周年奖，以表彰其在加强全球网络安全和保护全球数十亿互联网用户在线活动方面的工作。它已经被国际公认为在许多关键领域进行最先进的研究。其中包括：设备认证-开发后量子加密解决方案、RFID和物联网设备的低功耗加密系统、基于高速整数的全同态加密安全无处不在的网络-确保设备、传感器和云资源之间的实时连接。移动的恶意软件检测方法，以对抗高级规避技术，如多态和变形混淆。保护关键基础设施的高度分布式网络。保护软件定义和高度虚拟化的网络。安全分析和事件管理-取证数据聚类和异常检测。基于图的在线挖掘算法，用于实时处理数据。数据挖掘方法，以学习有关事件的推理规则，并参与多标准决策，以进行自主网络安全威胁评估中心的一个关键方面是通过一个专门的商业和业务开发人员团队将研究商业化。这包括诸如CSIT成员方案、分拆、网络安全孵化器方案（CSIT实验室）、许可证、知识转让伙伴关系和合同研究与开发等机制。

Our world has become increasingly digitised, affecting how we communicate, manage our finances, access healthcare and even interact with household devices. With more of our information held digitally and connected across multiple devices as well as in the cloud, significant new cyber security challenges are emerging. How can we process and transmit large volumes of information created by citizens, enterprise and government securely? How do we meet the demand for innovative technologies and solutions to counter the threat? How do we produce the next generation of industry leaders, new ventures and a skilled workforce to sate the ever growing appetite for cyber security experts globally? These are some of the global challenges being tackled by CSIT every day.CSIT was awarded the a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2015 for its work in strengthening global cyber security and protecting the online activity of billions of internet users around the world. It is already internationally recognised as performing state-of-the-art research in a number of key areas. These include: Device authentication - Development of Post-quantum cryptographic solutions, low power cryptosystems for RFID and IoT devices, high speed integer based fully homomorphic encryption Secure ubiquitous networking - Securing real-time connectivity between devices, sensors and cloud resources. Mobile malware detection methods to counteract advanced evasion technologies such as polymorphic and metamorphic obfuscation. Securing highly distributed networks for critical infrastructures. Securing software defined and highly virtualised networks.Security analytics and event management - Forensic data clustering and anomaly detection. Online graph-based mining algorithms to process data in real-time. Data mining approaches to learn inference rules about events and engage multi-criteria decision making for autonomous cyber security threat assessmentA key aspect of the Centre is the commercialisation of the research through a dedicated team of commercial and business development staff. This includes mechanisms such as the CSIT Membership programme, spin outs, a cyber security incubator programme (CSIT Labs), licensing, knowledge transfer partnerships and contract research and development.