Centre for Cybersecurity Innovation

杜伦学院的多部门中小企业（SME）合作伙伴已经确定了对支持的迫切需求，以解决隐私和数据安全方面不断升级的风险和不断上升的成本。作为回应，达勒姆学院于2020年2月启动了一个新的虚拟中心——网络安全创新中心，作为提高网络安全应用研究能力计划的一部分。来自NSERC学院和社区创新计划-创新增强基金和CFI学院产业创新基金的资金将使学院能够利用这一新生能力。目标是为达勒姆地区和大多伦多地区的中小企业建立一个单一的统一来源，以评估、开发和部署网络安全系统，以有效地检测、预防和响应网络攻击。应用研究项目将侧重于创建安全风险的原型和测试环境，并支持虚拟环境中异常检测和模拟的应用研究。这将使中小企业能够监控其网络和端点的漏洞，保护其敏感数据并遵守行业和政府法规。应用研究项目分为两个主题领域：(1)支持需要扩展其能力以理解和解决关键/基本服务攻击面的网络安全公司。我们的应用研究项目将研究用于提供和监控消费者服务的监控系统中的漏洞；(2)为拥有关键基础设施和运营的公司提供支持，重点是开发新的技术堆栈，以监测、警报和防止多部门中小企业面临的异常攻击。通过合作应用研究，中小企业将拥有定制的网络安全保护工具，并转变为具有网络风险意识的组织。这将增强消费者对数字经济的信心，促进国际标准化，并使加拿大中小企业在全球竞争中处于更好的地位。

Durham College's multisectoral small- to medium-sized enterprise (SME) partners have identified an urgent need for support to address the escalating risks and rising costs of privacy and data security. In response, Durham College launched a new virtual centre, the Centre for Cybersecurity Innovation, in February 2020 as part of a plan to increase cybersecurity applied research capacity. Funding from the NSERC College and Community Innovation Program - Innovation Enhancement grant and CFI College Industry Innovation Fund will enable the college to leverage this nascent capacity. The objective is to establish a single unified source for SMEs in the Durham Region and the Greater Toronto Area to evaluate, develop, and deploy cybersecurity systems to detect, prevent, and respond to cyber attacks efficiently. The program of applied research will focus on creating prototypes and beta environments for security risks and support applied research on anomaly detection and simulations within virtual environments. This will enable SMEs to monitor their networks and endpoints for vulnerabilities, protect their sensitive data and comply with industry and government regulations. The program of applied research falls under two thematic areas: (1) support for cybersecurity companies that need to extend their capabilities to understand and address the attack surfaces of critical/essential services. Our program of applied research will examine the vulnerabilities embedded within surveillance systems used to deliver and monitor consumer services; and (2) support for companies with critical infrastructure and operations, focused on the development of new technological stacks to monitor, alert and prevent anomalous attacks faced by multisectoral SMEs. Through collaborative applied research, SMEs will have customized cybersecurity tools for their protection, and be transformed into cyber risk-aware organizations. This will increase consumer confidence in the digital economy, promote international standardization, and better positions Canadian SMEs to compete globally.