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Welcome to Security Lancaster

As an umbrella of Lancaster’s Cyber Security activities, the Lancaster Security Institute (SL) targets the broad spectrum of "useful and usable" Cyber Security with a unique data-centric socio-technical "systems" perspective.

The 4 Centers within SL (SL Center for Assured Autonomy, SL Center for Secure Publics, SL Center for Secure Systems, and Center for Secure Analytics) reflect the current research themes pursued by the institute. These represent a unique coverage of both technical and societal aspects of Cyber Security covering software, system, network, and behavioral/sociological threats in addition to addressing legal and policy aspects across a multitude of application domains. The SL coverage includes highlight activities such as UKRI TAS-S, CREST, SPRITE+, NCSC ACE-CSE and ACE-CSR, EC CONCORDIA & SANCUS, ERC H-unique, PETRAS HIPSTER, GM/Lancashire Cyber Foundries, the upcoming GCHQ DISH in addition to industry sponsored projects.

Our emergent research targets Secure ML, technology-invariant data integrity, quantifiable/composable security alongside an upcoming community-accessible threats data repository TIDE-H (Threat Intelligence Data Exchange Hub).

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Highlight Projects & Activities

  • Research

    Security Lancaster delivers research that innovates and creatively challenges the way that individuals, organisations and societies secure and protect themselves. Our approach delivers the very best use-inspired and pure research that delivers real impact.

  • Enterprise

    We achieve our world-class research and educational achievements through engagement and collaboration with companies from a range of sectors, national governments, think tanks and other organisations with an interest in security and protection science.

  • Education

    Lancaster University has been recognised as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE) by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre. Our Gold award is based on the quality of existing cyber security courses - in particular the MSc in Cyber Security - and a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject area. We have ambitious plans for the future, including offering additional programmes at Bachelor's and Master's levels and enhancing cyber awareness more broadly across the university’s staff and student population.

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Lancaster experts take part in key cyber security workshop in Morocco

Experts from Lancaster University along with partners from Templar Executives, a leading UK cyber security company, have held the first UK-Morocco workshop into a key area of cyber security that aims to help unlock significant potential for green energy in the North African country.
Dr Rebecca Robinson, Programme Manager of Lancashire Cyber Foundry at Lancaster University

Importance of creating a North West Cyber Corridor in spotlight at launch of Lancashire Cyber Alliance

Lancaster University‘s role in helping harness a multi-billion pound opportunity around cyber security was highlighted during the launch of the new Lancashire Cyber Alliance (LCA).
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New cyber network to leverage multi-billion pound opportunity

Lancaster University is supporting the launch of a new network for organisations working in cyber security, following the announcement the government’s National Cyber Force (NCF) will be located in Samlesbury.
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AI generated faces are MORE trustworthy than real faces say researchers who warn of “deep fakes”

People cannot distinguish between a face generated by Artificial Intelligence - using StyleGAN2- and a real face say researchers, who are calling for safeguards to prevent “deep fakes”.
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GCHQ announces new academic partnership with universities

Lancaster University, along with three other North West universities, has joined together with GCHQ to create a “Security and Trust Partnership” in the region that will see closer ties between the intelligence, cyber and security agency and academia. 

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