Community of Interest: Communicating Cybersecurity - 'Stakeholder Mapping: Who communicates cyber security to whom?'

Save the date: SPRITE+ Conference, Belfast, 28-29 June 2023

SPRITE+ supports Project Partner SASIG with their event 'Reaching the Boardroom'

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The third call of the REPHRAIN Strategic Funding programme is now live

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QUB LINAS Doctoral Training Programme

Request for experts on child online harms to complete survey

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This strategic funding call is for projects that relate to REPHRAIN’s missions and research challenges. In addition, they particularly encourage proposals that focus on the following topics:

• Protecting privacy at work
• Ensuring privacy for legitimate actors
• Protecting young people (under 18s) from online harms

The above are indicative topics and they welcome proposals on additional related topics.

Proposals should be submitted by 4pm on 25 November 2022 – see the dedicated pages on their website for a full list of key dates and deadlines, as well as full details of the call, funding details, documentation, how to apply, and more information on the encouraged topics.

ESRC: Secondary Data Analysis Initiative, closing date: open call. Read more here.

EPSRC: discipline-hopping in ICT, closing date: open call, total fund: £1.5M. Read more here.

ESRC: New investigator grant, closing date: open call. Read more here.

EPSRC: Technological innovation for understanding cancers of unmet need, closing date: 8 November 2022 16.00 BST. Read more here.

Innovate UK: Horizon Europe Work Programme 2021-2022: Civil Security for Society - Cluster 3, closing date: 23 November 2022. Read more here.

EPSRC: Establish a future communications systems early-stage federated hub, closing date: 29 November 2022 16.00 BST. Read more here.

EPSRC: Early career researcher international collaboration grants, closing date: 18 January 2023 16.00 BST. Read more here.

SASIG: Cybersecurity for Charities and Non-Profits, 9.30-14.45 GMT (in-person), 10.00-13.45 (online, 1 November 2022, hybrid. Register here.

SASIG: Defending with an attacker’s mindset, 11.00-12.00 GMT, 2 November 2022, online. Register here.

SASIG: Reaching the boardroom, 10.00-14.15 GMT, 3 November 2022, online. Register here.

SASIG: Taking cloud security to the next level: Securing cloud workloads without comprising agility and speed, 11.00-12.00 GMT, 4 November 2022, hybrid. Register here.

SASIG: Operational resilience and cyber: How to build resilient organisations, 11.00-12.00 GMT, 7 November 2022, hybrid. Register here.

REPHRAIN: Lightning Talks - Ola Michalec, 13.00-14.00, 17 November 2022, online. Contact ola.michalec@bristol.ac.uk for Zoom details.

PETRAS: Securing the Future: Nurturing Research Ecosystems – Why Academic-Industry Collaborations are Critical to IoT Cybersecurity, 10.00-14.00, 1 December 2022, online. Register here.

Lecturer in Information Security, Royal Holloway University of London. Closing date: 31 October 2022. Read more here.

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Research & Teaching) in Analytics OR Data Science Machine Learning, University of Bath. Closing date: 4 November 2022. Read more here.

Lecturers / Senior Lecturers / Readers and/or Professors in Cyber-security and Communication Systems (Teaching & Research), Queen Mary University of London. Closing date: 12 November 2022. Read more here.

Post-doctoral Researcher in Formal and Automated Security Analysis of Extended Reality Systems, King's College London. Closing date: 13 November 2022. Read more here.

Post-doctoral Researcher EU Cyber Direct Program (1,0 FTE), University of Leiden. Closing date: 15 November 2022. Read more here.

Research Associate (Cyber Security), University of Central Lancashire. Closing date: 16 November 2022. Read more here.

Parliamentary Academic Fellowship: Providing support and expertise to the International Affairs Unit on the UK Government’s international and national security policy, House of Commons. Closing date: 20 November 2022. Read more here.

Roles in the Department of Computer Science and Technology x6, University of Cambridge. Closing date: 2 November - 5 December 2022. Read more here.

Lecturer - Digital Technologies and Policy, University College London. Closing date: 15 December 2022. Read more here.

Multiple Academic Roles in Security, Protection Science and Related Disciplines, Lancaster University. Closing date: 8 January 2023. Read more here.

Senior Research Analyst, Trilateral Research. Closing date: Rolling application. Read more here.

Research Analyst, Trilateral Research. Closing date: Rolling application. Read more here.

PhD Studentship in Computer Science (Conservative Bayesian Assessment of Classifiers used for Malicious Network Activity Detection), City, University of London. Closing date: 21 November 2022. Read more here.

PhD Studentship in Computer Science (Next Generation Blockchain Systems), City, University of London. Closing date: 21 November 2022. Read more here.

PhD Scholarship: Compression, Privacy, and Communications in Digital Twins for Water Data Systems, University of Aarhus. Closing date: 15 November 2022. Read more here.

PhD Studentship: Pathways into Cyber Offending, University of Bath. Closing date: 13 January 2023. Read more here.

The QUB LINAS Doctoral Training Programme (DTP) seeks to develop a cohort of Doctoral Scholars who can address the implications of massive-scale data processing, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for both the actual operation of algorithmically driven public decision-making in wider society, and within science and engineering.

They have multiple studentships available and welcome applicants for Autumn 2023 start.

To find out more about LINAS. there will be a briefing session on 9th November 2022 @ 12.30pm.

While there are many security and safety risks for children online, what is not yet known is what the possibility is of these risks causing harm. SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Karen Renaud and colleague Suzy Prior are looking for experts on child online harms to complete an anonymous study which takes less than 5 minutes to complete. Participants will be asked to rate the possibility of a child facing a range of online harms. The study can be found here.

Special Issue, 'Blockchain for Security, Privacy and Trust in 6G Communication Networks'. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2023. Read more here.

Join us on 22 November 2022 for our interactive session, 'Stakeholder Mapping: Who communicates cyber security to whom?'

Through this event, we will collaboratively map the stakeholders involved in communicating cyber security. There will also be brief lighting talks from Dr Ola Michalec (University of Bristol) and Dr Emma Moreton (University of Liverpool) who will report on their respective research projects.

The aim of the session is to build the emerging community of interest “Communicating Cybersecurity” launched earlier this year. To find out more about the Community and express your interest, click here. To register for the event on Eventbrite, click here.

As we reach the end of our first four years, and look forward to the next four, save the date to come and celebrate with us!

We are holding a two-day conference in Belfast on 28-29 June 2023 at the Titanic Centre. We’ll be showcasing some of our achievements and working together to shape the next four years of SPRITE+.

The programme will include a range of activities, including talks from expert fellows, lightning talks from community members, posters from early-career researchers, presentations from clusters of sandpit-funded projects, and thematic workshops. Our schedule allows plenty of time for networking and informal discussion.

Keep an eye out for updates coming soon.

SPRITE+ Members (and leaders of our Community of Interest on Communicating Cybersecurity) Ola Michalec and Emma Moreton will be attending the upcoming event from our Project Partner SASIG, 'Reaching the Boardroom'.

In this session, they will explore how we can more effectively communicate with boards by speaking their language, and ways we can quantify cyber to be more digestible. Their experience will generate ideas for future outputs of the community. If you are interested in attending this event, register here.

Every month we ask SPRITE+ members to share their news with the community. All previous publications from members are available on SPRITEHub.

SPRITE+ Expert Fellows Pejman Saeghe, Mark McGill, and Mohamed Khamis recently won Meta’s 2022 Towards Trustworthy Products in AR, VR, and Smart Devices RFP award, where they aim to develop a toolkit for identifying and mitigating deceptive designs in XR.

SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Mohamed Khamis recently had a paper, titled ThermoSecure: Investigating the effectiveness of AI-driven thermal attacks on commonly used computer keyboards’ received a lot of media attention including an interview on BBC Radio. Listen here (at 2:51:40).

SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Marie Oldfield has had a journal article, Towards Pedagogy Supporting Ethics in Modelling published in the Journal for Humanistic Mathematics. She has also published two opinion pieces: How Humans Can Positively Interact with Technology and Black Mirror is already here. Should we be afraid?.

SPRITE+ Member Sotiris Moschoyiannis recently published an article titled Electric Vehicle Charging: A Survey on the Security Issues and Challenges of the Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP).

SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Jacob Johanssen has recently published his co-authored book titled Media and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction.

SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Mohammad Shojafar has been elevated as an AE in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (JCR-IF:9.5). He has also recently published papers titled ARARAT: A Collaborative Edge-Assisted Framework for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming and Can Open and AI-Enabled 6G RAN Be Secured?.

SPRITE+ Member Luca Vigano has recently published two papers, titled Perceptions of Beauty in Security Ceremonies (alongside Karen Renaud), and Don’t Tell Me the Cybersecurity Moon Is Shining… (Cybersecurity Show and Tell).

SPRITE+ Member Matthew Bradbury has recently published a paper titled Attributes and Dimensions of Trust in Secure Systems.

Our Project Partner Age Check Certification Scheme published measurement of age assurance technologies. This report was comissioned by The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator, which also recently published research on families' attitude towards age assurance.

SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Karen Renaud has recently published the following articles: Trust and Vulnerability in the Cybersecurity Context; Crowdsourcing Quality Concerns: An Examination of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk; SOK: Young Children’s cybersecurity Knowledge and Skills; Accessible and Inclusive Cyber Security: A Nuanced and Complex Challenge; Perceptions of beauty in security ceremonies (with Luca Vigano).

The Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield organised a panel discussion on Researching and Countering M/Disinformation. The youtube recording is here.

SPRITE+ Member Olga Solovyeva collaborated with ADVOX earlier this year, working on an Unfreedom Monitor. The reports for this project, as well as other articles, are available here.

SPRITE+ Expert Fellow Lynne Coventry and Member Charles Weir have recently published a paper titled Vision: Design Fiction for Cybersecurity: Using Science Fiction to Help Software Developers Anticipate Problems..

SPRITE+ Member Matt Spencer recently published a paper titled Characterising Assurance: Scepticism and mistrust in cyber security.

Anima People have recently published an opinion piece titled Why security culture is reaching for the stars and recruiting for a security mindset is falling on the moon.