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EUTC ran a one-day cyber security workshop on November 13 in Paris attended by RITICS member, Dr Tania Wallis, from the University of Glasgow. Tania presented insights from the University of Glasgow’s work in NIS-D Supply Chain Resilience and Forensic [...]

The RITICS Autumn Showcase took place in London on October 14th with a mix of guests from across academia, industry and government. Talks included those by Peter Davies of Thales on Defence Industry Cyber Security, Tania Wallis from University of [...]

Presentation: Defining Effective Solutions to Assure the 'Industrial IoT' for NIS Directive Compliance, Dr Richard Thomas, Birmingham Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy (PDF)

Presentation: Interconnected safe and secure systems, Dr Peter Popov, City University (PDF)

CyberUK is the UK government’s most important cyber security event. This year it showcased the latest cyber security research from around the UK and abroad, to an audience of around 2000 people. CYBERUK was organized by the GCHQ via the [...]

The RITICS Spring Showcase took place successfully on 15th April 2019 at the National Cyber Security Centre, Nova South, London. Around a hundred delegates were there drawn from industry, academia and government, and the meeting showcased the best research from [...]

The Cybersecurity in Industry conference took place at De Montfort University in Leicester on 28th February 2019. It was run as part of De Montfort’s CyberWeek, and was an event organised jointly by RITICS and De Montfort. There were keynote [...]

Image credit: Andrew Milligan - PA Images The Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt visited Glasgow University’s cybersecurity group, run by RITICS-funded Professor Chris Johnson. He met Chris, and viewed a demo by Marco Cook, one of Chris’s PhD students. Marco ran [...]

The Information Exchange Conference took place between 13th and 15th February 2019 at the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham University. It included a Cabinet Office session and a Case Study on a CNI Chemical Company, as well as a series [...]

The Surrey Centre for Cyber Security (SCCS) Research Workshop and Networking Event took place on Thursday 31 January 2019 at the University of Surrey. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together experts from industry, academia and government to [...]

Hundreds of millions of pounds are spent on healthcare technology in the UK every year. Digital health is becoming increasingly important, with the imminent launch of the NHS App, and the advent of Bring Your Own Device in healthcare. To [...]

Over 150 people drawn from industry, government and academia came to the first Industrial Control Systems Community of Interest event, held at Nova South, London. A keynote talk from cyber-security company FireEye highlighted the ingenious techniques that criminals and state [...]

The RI Conference was held at the Montcalm Hotel, Marble Arch, London on 17th October 2018. The theme was “Showcase and Opportunity” and demonstrated to the audience the current and ongoing value of the Research Institutes, including RITICS. There were [...]

Up to this point in time, there has been little work done on cyber security in the healthcare domain. This is perhaps surprising, as research into healthcare and healthcare technologies has generally been very well funded. This is the rationale [...]

The first Showcase of the second phase of RITICS took place at the National Cyber Security Centre,  London on 18th October 2018. We had a record turnout for the event, with around 130 people coming along. As well as academics [...]

Since February, Dr Ying He and Dr Iryna Yevseyeva have been involved in Innovate UK’s Cyber Security Academic Start-Up Programme.  This programme is funding innovative academic cyber security ideas to support the development of potential commercial opportunities. After a successful [...]

We are delighted to welcome Dr Prabhat Sakya to the team. He is the new RITICS Programme Manager, and started work with us on 2 July 2018. He will work with us full-time for the duration of the RITICS programme, [...]

We've just published a brochure introducing the RITICS programme and the activities of the five research projects. The brochure can be accessed online here.    

Resilience Conference 2017: Responding to Complex Threats: Floods, Blackouts, and Hybrid Attacks Ensuring resilience is an increasingly complex imperative as threats diversify and interact with each other. Organised by RUSI and Loughborough University, this conference will explore key resilience issues [...]

As detailed in the recent Alex Gibney documentary Zero Days: Nuclear Cyber Sabotage, the Stuxnet worm caused havoc in an Iranian nuclear facility by exploiting unknown – and hence unprotected – weaknesses in the computer control system; so called zero-day [...]