What are the suitable metrics for quantifying the costs and benefits of telecoms security and resilience policies?

Background

For the deployment of current and future technologies, DI wishes to develop a stronger evidence base around the benefits of and barriers to their deployment, with a focus on the adoption of 5G and open network infrastructure to build the resilience of networks and support innovation. DI needs to develop models and techniques to understand efficient spectrum allocation and understand the issues surrounding the use of specific spectrum bands.
DI needs to better understand the trends around technological convergence, future demand for digital connectivity, regulation around access to the internet and emerging cloud services and their impact on security.
DI wishes to complement its understanding of current technology deployment with research into the work driving future technologies to develop and increase the UK’s future capabilities.
All of this needs to be underpinned by further research into the security and resilience of UK networks, addressing future developments and threats, gaining insight into the value of security interventions and barriers to investment in security.

Next steps

If you are keen to register your interest in working and connecting with DSIT Digital Technology and Telecoms Group and/or submitting evidence, then please complete the DSIT-ARI Evidence survey - https://dsit.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cDfmK2OukVAnirs.
Please view full details: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-science-innovation-and-technology-areas-of-research-interest/dsit-areas-of-research-interest-2024

Source

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

DSIT Areas of Research Interest 2024 GOV UK

Related UKRI funded projects


  • RBOC N+ - Resilience Beyond Observed Capabilities

    The RBOC (Resilience Beyond Observed Capabilities) Network Plus will create new knowledge, new capabilities and new opportunities for collaboration to help the UK prepare for security threats in the coming decades. The s...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: Coventry University

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on developing models and techniques to understand efficient spectrum allocation and issues surrounding specific spectrum bands, which aligns with the question's focus on quantifying costs and benefits of telecoms security and resilience policies.

  • Return On Cyber Security Investment (ROCSI)

    To be of business value, any investment must be selective and focus on high priority areas of the business. However, boards find it difficult to justify the cost of investment and formulate ROI arguments on cyber securit...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Queen Mary University of London

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project addresses the challenge of justifying the cost of investment in cyber security and formulating ROI arguments, which is partially relevant to understanding the costs and benefits of telecoms security and resilience policies.

  • Security Enhanced Virtualised Networking for 5G (SEViN-5G)

    The UK is at the forefront of 5G innovation, and 5G will bring massive economic benefits to the global economy. In particular the ability to deploy dedicated Private 5G for industrial and smart city use cases will yield ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: AMPLIPHAE LTD

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on identifying and mitigating potential cyber-security threats to 5G networks, which is partially relevant to understanding the costs and benefits of telecoms security and resilience policies.

  • Security by Design for Interconnected Critical Infrastructures

    The objective of the proposed collaborative work is to advance the state of the art in the design of secure interconnected public infrastructures. The focus is on Security-by-Design. While security-by-design is not a new...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: Imperial College London

  • SATURN (Self-organising Adaptive Technology underlying Resilient Networks)

    Within the SATURN project: (1) Imperial College will first conduct a comparative study of EU research capabilities and activities in Critical Network Infrastructures (CNI) so as to identify potential synergies, and possi...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: Imperial College London

  • A Covid-19 solution to address the need for rapid reconfiguration of secure digital connectivity to internet or enterprise networks to enable ‘Work from Anywhere’

    **What is Albeego?** In today's increasingly connected world there is a constant demand for faster, secure and stable access to the internet or private enterprise networks, especially when on the move. With the busines...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: REMARKABLE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED

  • NATWORK: Net-Zero self-adaptive activation of distributed self-resilient augmented services

    The ambition of the NATWORK project is to set the foundations and deploy the very first economically realistic, energy efficient and viable bio-inspired AI-based 6G cybersecurity and resilience framework for intelligent ...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX

Similar ARIs from other organisations