KIRCCS News

The Kentish Cyber Team: Dr Gareth Mott, Hala Zein, Ben Treacy, Nandita Pattnaik, and Keenan Jones Kentish Cyber, a team of Kent students, recently took part in the 4th Annual UK Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge. The Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge is an annual cyber policy and strategy competition open to university students from across the globe. The competition focuses on the interdisciplinary nature of the cyber challenges an...

Professor Shujun Li from the School of Computing and Director of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) will work with researchers at Cranfield University to look into the cyber security risks posed by a digitally enabled, low-carbon mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) ecosystem. The project, titled "Mobility as a service: MAnaging Cybersecurity Risks across Consumers, Organisations and Sectors (MACRO)", is f...

Professor David Chadwick, Managing Director and CEO of Verifiable Credentials, and Professor of Information Systems Security at the School of Computing, has been interviewed by CNBC on his company's trialling of COVID-19 vaccination passports. Verifiable Credentials is a cyber security company which aims to provide everyone with free to use verifiable credentials apps. The company has been testing COVID-19 certificate ...

Dr Sanjay Bhattacherjee from the School of Computing and Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) has secured funding from Innovate UK as part of their Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme (CyberASAP). CyberASAP is a competition for cyber security researchers to realise the commercialisation potential of their innovations. The funding received is for a project entitled 'ViBS: Voting in Blockchain Sytems'. The project aims to ...

A consortium of researchers including Dr Jason Nurse from the University's Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) and School of Computing, have found that there has been a surge in cyber-security crime experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a particular correlation between governmental policy announcements and cyber-crime campaigns. Their study, published in the journal Com...

A multidisciplinary research team from the University's Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) is carrying out an investigation to examine the role of technology in intimate partner domestic abuse. The research, funded by the Home Office Domestic Abuse Perpetrators fund, will explore the prevalence of Technology Facilitated Domestic Abuse (TFDA) in the UK and the particular types of technologies use...

Dr Jason Nurse of the School of Computing and Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) is part of a collaborative research project that will help guide future police investigations into domestic abuse. The project, funded by the Home Office Domestic Abuse Perpetrators fund, will explore how domestic abusers are using computers and other digital technology to monitor, threaten and humiliate their victims...

Congratulations to Dr Jason R.C. Nurse, Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, who has won an award at this year's Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2021) for his poster on 'A Framework for Effective Corporate Communication after Cyber Security Incidents'. NDSS is a top security venue that fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of computer, network and distributed system security. The resear...

On Wednesday 17 February 2021, Kent Law School and Kent Cyber Security Educational Centre (KeCSEC), hosted a virtual workshop entitled ‘Children's Social Media Sites: Can they meet the ICO Age Appropriate Design Code of Practice?’ Over the past year children, youths and teens have been living a large portion of their lives online to learn and to socialise, especially using social media sites to meet old fri...

On Monday 8 February, Kent cyber security researchers (Professor Shujun Li, Dr Virginia Franqueira and PhD student Sarah Turner) gave a talk at St Edmund's School in Canterbury, to share their experience on cyber security research and education. This talk was one of a series of events initiated by the Kent Cyber Security Educational Centre (KeCSEC), part of the newly established Institute of Advanced Studies in Cyber Security and Conflict (SoCyETAL) at ...