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The identification, assessment, and the mitigation of vulnerabilities and threats, constitute essential artefacts for the provisioning of security. The Cyber Systems Research Group (CSRG) undertakes both fundamental and empirically-driven applied research, addressing the susceptibility of complex socio-technical systems to compromises. The CSRG group advocates a data-centric view to comprehensively explore “system-level” susceptibility life-cycles. We research the interplay of threats, vulnerability assessment, and effect-based impact analysis, to provide for dependable and resilient services in modern computing infrastructures. Our focus areas include Cyber Physical Systems, Large-Scale Networks, and Complex Virtualized Environments.

We are also actively engaged with our Cyber Security Research Centre. This centre is an NCSC/EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR).

For more details of the research work our Cyber Security Research Centre undertakes and who is involved from across the university, please visit the website.

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Our research focus areas are:

  • Cyber-physical socio-technical systems security and resilience
  • Large-scale network security and resilience
  • Cyber security risk management in complex socio-technical systems
  • Design of secure and resilient distributed and cloud-based platforms

We develop new experimental approaches, both practical and theoretical, to understand the complex interactions within Systems of Socio-Technical Systems (SoSTS). We focus on the long term underlying principles and challenges driving security issues in SoSTS. We provide a core security-focused grouping within the University's Cyber Security Research Centre (CSRC), alongside other research groups in SCC and other departments.

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