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On Tuesday 8 February 2022, three members of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS), Director Professor Shujun Li, Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr Rahime Belen Sağlam and PhD student Sarah Turner, delivered five one-hour-long sessions to pupils in Years 3-8 at St Edmund's School in Canterbury. This event formed part of iCSS's outreach activities and the 2022 Safer Internet Day activities of S...

Dr Jason Nurse, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Cyber Security at the University of Kent, together with Lisa Sugiura, Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Cybercrime at the University of Portsmouth, have published an article for The Conversation titled ‘Domestic abusers are weaponizing everyday tech — and there's no quick fix’. Last month we provided some bac...

The 3rd Annual UK Cyber Security PhD Winter School, sponsored by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and co-organised by the UK Cyber Security PhD Network, took place virtually on 10-12 January 2022. During the event, several talks, keynote sessions and panel discussions were held. Talks were divided into three tracks that participants could choose from: Society and Privacy AI-related Security Protocols and Cryptogra...

As part of Safer Internet Day 2022, Kent academics share their expertise and tips on keeping ourselves and each other safe in the digital sphere It has been said that in 2020 the world moved online. Two years on and, although we are no longer confined to digital spaces, our digital presence is ever increasing.   When you visit a website, what do you want the organisation running the website to know about you, and to share with other organisations? What ...

Domestic abuse perpetrators are increasingly using digital and online technologies to monitor, threaten and humiliate their victims, according to a new Home Office report co-authored by Dr Jason Nurse, Associate Professor in Cyber Security at the University's School of Computing and Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS). Based on a project funded by the UK Home Office Domestic A...

Professor Andrew Hone, Associate Member of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS), is working with the Institute for Research in Schools (IRIS) on a new project, Huge Primes, which focuses on prime numbers and primality testing. This project aims to give school students throughout the UK the opportunity to learn techniques from mathematics and cryptography that underpin the sec...

Congratulations to Rodney Adriko, MSc Cyber Security graduate, who won the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) Student Project of the Year Award! We caught up with Rodney to find out more about his time at Kent, his plans for the future his award-winning project. Could you tell us about your experiences studying at Kent? The world evolved...

Earlier this year, Institute for Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) member Dr Jason Nurse contributed to a government-commissioned Ipsos MORI report, titled 'Consumer Attitudes Towards IoT security'. This report detailed the findings of an online survey of the UK public, exploring consumer purchasing behaviour of, and attitudes towards connected devices. This report has now been cited in government plans for new legislation, The Product Security and...

A new policy report co-led by Dr Jason Nurse, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) and School of Computing, has found that the number of programmes and students engaged in cybersecurity within higher education are growing. This is also complemented by an increase in state-level initiatives across Europe in cybersecurity skills. As a consequence, the number of graduates in the next 2...