Current priorities
The current priorities of the Cyber Security programme are to:
- Help users of cyber security technologies and services make better informed decisions as to what they really require in order to protect themselves. Initially by developing practical metrics for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security solutions at providing protection against changing threats in dynamic business environments; facilitating cost-effective solutions and risk management.
- Facilitate the benefits promised by Trusted Computing by considering the approach from a users perspective. Specifically, by investigating the potential applications, benefits, business models and use cases for exploiting trusted computing; understanding the sociological, technological and business environmental barriers to uptake.
- Help users of large scale identity management schemes learn from those already experienced in deploying solutions. Initially focusing on the Financial Services sector by studying their previous experience in implementing global and cost effective solutions; seeking to transfer lessons learnt, best practice and identify identity capability and technology gaps.
- Help non-expert users behave more securely in the cyber domain by seeking to understand how to develop and create trust in humans, and how to make risks more tangible.
- Investigate why it is that we still develop code with potential security vulnerabilities when the theory on how develop code without such coding errors has been available to the community for many years. Then to propose an approach to enabling the software industry to produce higher integrity software.
