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.

Next steps

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Source

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

Df E Areas of Research Interest 2024

Related UKRI funded projects

  • 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

    Lead research organisation: University of Kent

    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

    The Internet (Cyber space) is a source of infinite knowledge, an evolving artefact unconstrained by national borders, law, regulations or languages and a community with commercial, political and criminal interests. The I...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: Queen's University Belfast

    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

    The Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR) is hosted within the University's flagship cross-disciplinary Security Lancaster Research Centre. Inaugurated by Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones in Oc...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: Lancaster University

    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

    Lead research organisation: King's College London

    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

    Lead research organisation: OPEN UNIVERSITY WORLDWIDE LIMITED

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on training and assessing cyber security behavior, which is partially relevant to the question about best practices for cyber security in schools.

  • CyberSecDome

    Organisations across the sectors significantly benefit from digital transformation to support evolving business models, services and customer experience. Despite the benefits of digital infrastructure adoption, there are...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY

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

    We will develop an intelligent game (Play2Secure) to empower the young people with knowledge relating to risks and threats in cyber space. This includes their needs on how to (i) identify secure sites to browse safe and ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY

  • University of Nottingham and J P Morgan Limited

    To develop and embed a methodology by which the uncertain likelihood of cyber threats faced by the institution can be better quantified....

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

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

    Following the insight that cyber security does not only come from protecting critical infrastructures, the Centre for Cybercrime and Computer Security at Newcastle University (referred to as Cybercrime Centre in what fol...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: Newcastle University

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

    The Lancaster Cyber Security Centre of Excellence is a multi-disciplinary centre spanning the School of Computing and Communications, the Department of Psychology and the University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: Lancaster University

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