Cyber Security

Chris HankinDirectorInstitute for Security Science & TechnologyOctober 2016

The 1970s

Cyber attack methods

3.4 billion people connected to 25+ billion devices.

Combined physical and cyber threats.

Smart cities and the digital economy (smart metering, smart logistics, online banking, remote working, …)

Big data, privacy and trust.

The ‘future’ of cyber security

Industrial attacks

295 total (2015)

Incidents by sectorFY 2015

Ukrainian power outage

What is Imperial doing?

• UK Government scheme to recognise Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research.

• Three UK Government funded cyber security research institutes:• Research Institute in Science of Cybersecurity• Research Institute in Automated Program Analysis• Research Institute in Trustworthy Industrial Control Systems

• EPSRC funded interdisciplinary IoT Hub to explore critical issues in privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security (PETRAS).

What is Government doing?

• Chancellor’s speech in November 2015.• £1.9Bn investment over the next 5 years in a new UK Cyber

Security Programme, to include: A new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) An Institute of Coding to address skills A move towards an automated defence strategy: Active Cyber

Defence Cheltenham Innovation Centre to house the Cyber Security

Accelerator