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What are the cyber security risks within the school estate? What is best practice for cyber security in schools and how can we scale this across the school estate?

Background

Digital technologies, and AI in particular, will provide great opportunities – and potentially challenges – for teaching and school management. We want to make sure that we have a strong evidence base as these technologies grow in use.

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Df E Areas of Research Interest 2024

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    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Why might this be relevant?

    Partially answers the question by focusing on raising cybersecurity awareness through student-led activities.

  • AI Safety Platform: Generative AI and Cybersecurity Training SaaS for Schools and Families

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    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON

    Why might this be relevant?

    Fully answers the question by providing an AI Safety Platform to address cybersecurity risks in schools.

  • CyberSuper [working title]

    3000 Children and Young People in schools across Northern Ireland will discover the opportunities available to them in the country's thriving cyber security industry. A partnership between Big Ideas and the Department f...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Why might this be relevant?

    Partially answers the question by focusing on introducing children to cyber security industry opportunities.

  • Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research - University of Kent

    Security has been an area of research strength in the University for several years. There are strong technical research groups in the Faculty of Sciences: in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts with work on ident...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    Addresses cyber security risks within the school estate and provides best practices.

  • Centre for Secure Information Technologies - Tranche 2 Proposal

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    Funded by: EPSRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    Partially addresses cyber security risks and proposes solutions for internet security.

  • Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research - Lancaster University

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    Funded by: EPSRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    Partially addresses cyber security risks and provides insights into cyber security research.

  • Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research - King's College London

    King's College London (KCL) is a research-led university established in 1829 (4th oldest in England), and one of the top 25 universities in the world (2017-18 QS international world rankings). The current King's Strategi...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project specifically addresses cyber security risks in schools and provides best practices for scaling across the school estate.

  • CyberGaTE: A Gamified Intelligent Environment for Training and Assessing Cyber Security Behaviour

    "Recent studies indicate a severe global shortage of cybersecurity professionals. The reason for this could be attributed to; Lack of secure user behaviour that is contributing to increasing cyber-attacks. Fresh gra...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

  • CyberSecDome

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    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

  • Play2Secure: An AI enabled personalised cyberspace awareness game for young people

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    Funded by: Innovate UK

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