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About us

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.

Research Areas

Our research focus areas are:

  • Cyber-physical socio-technical systems security and resilience
  • Large-scale network security and resilience
  • Cybersecurity 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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Publications

Projects

Cyber Secure and Resilient Next-generation Communications for Small Modular Reactors
03/10/2025 → 02/10/2029
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DSI: DVAC: Data-driven Visualisation and Aggregation of Cyber vulnerabilities
17/01/2025 → 31/03/2025
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Uncovering Mitigation Effectiveness for Cyber Attacks Against AI Systems
02/01/2025 → 31/03/2025
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An Extraction Attack Targeting DL Model Architectures via Inferring TVM Auto- tuning Network Characteristics
01/01/2025 → 31/03/2025
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SL: Securing Convergent Ultra-large Scale Infrastructures (SCULI)
01/09/2024 → 31/08/2029
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SL: Interlinked Phase 3 - Futures for Interlinked CNI Computing
01/04/2024 → 23/10/2024
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SL: National Edge AI Hub for Real Data: Edge Intelligence for Cyber-disturbances and Data Quality
01/02/2024 → 31/01/2029
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SL: Generalised Context Privacy
01/01/2024 → 31/12/2026
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SL: Futures for Interlinked CNI Computing
20/11/2023 → 31/03/2024
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On the Application of the J-value to Time-varying Scenarios in the Nuclear Context (JUNO Mini Project)
01/10/2023 → 29/02/2024
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DSI:SL: The Security Gene: Discovering Embedded Commonalities within Adversarial Machine Learning
16/11/2022 → 31/03/2023
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SL: The Future of Interlinked Computing
16/11/2022 → 31/03/2023
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PINCH: Cyber Security Threat Assessment for AI: phase 2
26/09/2022 → 28/02/2023
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Resilience for Cyber-Physical Energy Systems
01/05/2022 → 30/04/2024
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SL: Using Design Fiction to Identify Future Vulnerabilities in Bio-IOT
15/11/2021 → 31/03/2022
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CyberASAP: Developer Security Essentials
01/04/2020 → 28/02/2021
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SL:H2020: Cyber security cOmpeteNCe fOr Research anD InnovAtion (CONCORDIA)
01/01/2020 → 31/03/2023
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KTP in Threat Intelligence Analytical Software
12/08/2019 → 11/08/2021
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BEIS: Nuclear Research and Development Programme: Research and Development of Reactor Design - Operational Technology Management After Cyber Incident
01/01/2019 → 31/07/2022
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Aethra : Intelligent RIPE Atlas Resource Allocation
06/11/2018 → 22/01/2021
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SL: Statement voting
01/05/2018 → 30/04/2020
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Cyber Risk as Systemic Risk in Financial Services
01/01/2018 → 01/01/2025
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Towards Ultimate Convergence of All Networks
01/10/2017 → …
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Secure Software without the Experts
01/09/2016 → 01/09/2020
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Resilient communication services protecting end-user applications from disaster-based failures
01/03/2016 → 29/02/2020
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Cyber Security of the Internet of Things
29/02/2016 → …
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Cyber Security of the Internet of things
28/02/2016 → 31/08/2019
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Research Investment Equipment Grant
09/03/2015 → 31/03/2015
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Economics of Assurance Activities
01/01/2015 → 31/03/2015
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Maritime Cyber Security
01/06/2014 → …
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Hybrid Risk Management for Utility Providers
01/04/2014 → 30/09/2017
Other

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