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10 YEARS OF IMPACT
CSIT is the UK’s Innovation and Knowledge
Centre for cyber security. Based at Queen’s
University Belfast and founded in 2009, our
mission, to couple major research breakthroughs
in the field of secure information technologies
with a unique model of innovation and
commercialisation to drive economic and
societal impact for the nation has not wavered
since then.
As we predicted, cyber security challenges have
grown exponentially in the last decade. A safe
and secure cyberspace is fundamental to making
the UK the safest place in the world to live and
work online.
Cyber security is at the epicentre of privacy and
trust in the global digitalised society.
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CSIT PRINCIPAL
INVESTIGATOR CSIT DIRECTOR
Professor Máire O’Neill (FIAE, MRIA) has a strong She has authored two research books, and over Dr Godfrey Gaston is the Director of the Centre He then spent a number of years working for
international reputation for her research in hardware 150 peer-reviewed international conference/ for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT). He has GEC Plessey Semiconductors. Following this
security and applied cryptography. She is Director of journal publications. Professor O’Neill has responsibility for the operational management of role he was recruited as Engineering Manager
the £5M EPSRC/NCSC-funded Research Institute significant expertise in the design of high-speed the centre and commercialisation and knowledge for a technology start-up, BCO Technologies
in Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE: and lightweight security architectures, physical transfer within an open innovation research in Belfast, where he led the development of a
www.ukrise.org) and recently led the €3.8m EU unclonable functions (PUFs), side channel analysis environment. new Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
H2020 SAFEcrypto (Secure architectures for and applied quantum-safe cryptography. Her processing technology, which resulted in the
Future Emerging Cryptography: www.safecrypto.eu) early research into high-speed AES hardware Godfrey graduated with a MEng degree in acquisition of BCO by Analog Devices for $153m
project (2014–2018). architectures was successfully commercialised by Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the in 2000. For the next three years Godfrey led
Amphion Semiconductors, Belfast, and utilized Queen’s University Belfast, UK followed by a the Analog Devices Belfast engineering team.
She previously held a UK EPSRC Leadership to provide security in their set-top box chip sets. PhD at the University of Edinburgh in the field of
Fellowship (2008–2014) and was a former holder Collaborative research with ETRI, South Korea, on Microelectronics and Semiconductors. Godfrey has also completed an MBA from
of a UK Royal Academy of Engineering research a novel security architecture for Electric Vehicle Henley Management College, London and is co-
fellowship (2003–2008). She has received (EV) charging systems was licensed by LG-CNS. founder of start-up company, Titan IC. Titan IC is
numerous awards, which include a Blavatnik a spinout from Queen’s University Belfast.
Engineering and Physical Sciences medal, 2019, a She is an Associate Editor for IEEE TC and IEEE
Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal, 2014 TETC and is secretary of the IEEE Circuits and
and British Female Inventor of the Year 2007. Systems for Communications Technical committee.
She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a
Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering.
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Academic Centre of Excellence
In Cyber Security Research
DEVELOPING A
TALENT PIPELINE
CSIT’s success, and that of the cyber security
industry, is built on a steady pipeline of talented
students and researchers.
Masters in Applied Cyber
Security fully certified by the
Our Masters in Applied Cyber Security is training
the next generation of global industry leaders. The
UK National Cyber Security
course was established in 2014 and fully certified Centre in 2017
by the UK National Cyber Security Centre in 2017.
Since then we have enrolled 107 students from
around the world to study here in Belfast.
CSIT’s PhD training programme has graduated
33 PhD students to date. While a large majority
of those have been focused on core technology
areas we have also pioneered research at the
interface between the social sciences and
electronic engineering and computer science
with our Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network
on Cybersecurity and Society partnership with
the The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for 107 STUDENTS FROM CSIT’S PhD TRAINING
Global Peace, Security and Justice as well as in AROUND THE WORLD PROGRAMME HAS
Financial Services through the Capital Markets ENROLLED SINCE 2017 GRADUATED 33 PhD
Collaborative Network. STUDENTS TO DATE
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RESEARCH ACADEMIC
PROGRAMMES RESEARCH IMPACT
CSIT currently has 90 staff comprising academic Over the years CSIT has produced impressive
researchers and a significant engineering, research that has truly had an impact in the
professional services and commercial team with cyber security industry.
deep domain expertise in cyber, driving innovation
activities and making it one of the largest centres Some examples include:
of its kind in the UK.
• Paper on ‘Optimised Multiplication
Significant research programmes to date have Architectures for Accelerating Fully
included: Homomorphic Encryption’, X. Cao, C.
Moore, M. O’Neill, E. O’Sullivan, N.
• The £5m UK Research Institute in Secure Hanley, published in IEEE Transactions on
Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE), funded Computers, was chosen as IEEE Trans. on 90 STAFF MAKES US
by EPSRC and the NCSC and led by Professor Computers ‘Editor’s pick of the year 2016’ ONE OF THE LARGEST
Máire O’Neill CENTRES OF ITS KIND
www.ukrise.org • In 2015, to celebrate 25 years of the IN THE UK
International Conference on Field-
• SAFEcrypto – Worth €3.8m, this was the first programmable Logic & Applications (FPL)
major Horizon 2020 project to be co-ordinated research into ;FPGA Implementations of
in Northern Ireland – investigated practical post- the Round Two SHA-3 Candidates’ was
quantum cryptographic solutions awarded as one of 27 papers ‘deemed to
have most strongly influenced theory and
www.safecrypto.eu
practice in the field’
• CAPRICA and COSMIC – investigating secure
• Open-source tools, DELTA (SDN Security
and resilient approaches to trustworthy industrial
Evaluation) and TENNISON (SDN Security
control systems. Led by Professor Sakir Sezer
Framework), which are used in education
and Dr Kieran McLaughlin, core projects in the
and have also generated industry interest,
UK Research Institute in Trustworthy Inter-
specifically DELTA for testing the security
connected Cyber-physical Systems
of SDN devices
www.ritics.org/caprica 5TH IN THE UK FOR
• Dr. KW Wong Best Paper Award 2018, HIGH QUALITY
CSIT was one of the first Academic Centres of Elsevier Journal of Information Security and RESEARCH BASED
Excellence in Cyber Security Research recognised Applications ON REF RESULTS
by the NCSC and EPSRC in 2011 with that status
retained in the 2016 round assessment. • STPA-SafeSec: ‘Safety and security analysis
for cyber-physical systems’, I. Friedberg,
100% of our research REF results are world-leading K. McLaughlin, P. Smith, D. Laverty and S.
or internationally excellent, ranking 5th in the UK Sezer, Published June 2017; Selected on the
for research which is of the highest quality. grounds of originality and impact from the
publications of 2016–2018
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RESEARCH TRANSLATION
Industry engagement is at the heart of CSIT. Our
unique membership model has seen us develop
longstanding advisory and industrial collaborations
with global partners including Altera, Allstate,
BAE Systems, Cisco, Citi, Direct Line Group, First
Derivatives, IBM, Infosys, Intel, McAfee, Roke, Seagate
and Thales.
This unique Open Innovation model allows research
to translate to industry in an agile way, ensuring
demonstrable technology is in the hands of end users
quickly. Recent examples include:
• Partnering with BAE Systems on video based
semantic analysis of crowd behaviour for the UK
Defence and Security Accelerator
• Thales has used our novel Physical Unclonable CREATING NEW VENTURES CAPACITY BUILDING IN INDUSTRY
Functions (PUF) technology in a demonstrator for
electronic component anti-counterfeiting
CSIT Spin-out companies include Affyon, Ditaca, Our engineering capability is bridging the gap between
Titan IC, Liopa, Sensurity and Cognition Video, research and impact, and assist with direct contract
• Thales and Dell EMC have both used our practical
which are delivering new benchmarks for content innovation with companies. Significant examples include:
post-quantum cryptography architectures and
inspection, visual speech recognition, intrusion
software libraries in demonstrators as a first step
detection and platforms for automatic and intelligent • Working with B-Secur to refine the accuracy of their
to commercialisation
image and video processing. ECG authentication technology
• A collaboration with TES Group, led to the
• Titan IC Ltd now employs over 20 staff, has secured • Developing new mechanisms for carrying out
discovery of a critical vulnerability affecting critical
£4m investment compliance regulations at one of the largest
national infrastructure networks globally. As a
global financial services companies – its first ever
result the vendor developed a patch ensuring the
• Liopa Ltd now employs 8 staff, has secured over engagement with an academic research centre
vulnerability cannot be exploited by hackers
£1m in investment outside the United States
• We worked with Linz AG, an electrical distribution
• Ditaca is developing new retrofit appliance and • Collaborating with Allstate to apply cyber security
company in Austria, to reveal several problems and
cloud enabled cyber security solutions for industrial research to the problem of detecting anomalous and
vulnerabilities in Supervisory Control And Data
control systems fraudulent insurance claims
Acquisition (SCADA) networks
• We have developed open source tools for testing
the security of Software-Defined Networking
(SDN) devices
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London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement (LORCA)
17 start-ups from across the UK have
graduated from the CSIT Labs incubator
programme over three cohorts.
INNOVATION
Our CSIT Labs experience is now being applied on CSIT Labs 1
a truly national scale. CSIT is a delivery partner on • Liopa
the £13.5m UK Government funded London Office • Sirona
for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement (LORCA) • Cognition Video
providing academic and engineering support to • B-Secur
each cohort at Plexal, the innovation campus based • CyberLytic
at the Olympic Park.
CSIT Labs 2
Furthermore, CSIT is heavily involved in supporting • Cambridge
many more companies through the UK Government Authentication Ltd
funded programmes HutZero and Cyber101. • AutoCan(Coventry)
• DITACA (CSIT)
These firms have raised over £20m in private • Uleska
investment: • Circadian
• Immersive Labs
• B-Secur (£7.5m)
• Uleska (£500k) CSIT Labs 3
• Liopa (£1m) • CyberShield
• Titan IC (£4m) • CyNation
• Cyberlytic (£935k) • Distributed
• Immersive Labs ($8m) Management Systems
• Zonefox (Acquired by Fortinet for $18m) • Hengistbury Software
• Circadian Capital (£70k) • Serelay
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A GLOBAL CYBER
INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM
CSIT has been a critical resource in establishing The Centre is a founding partner of the Global NI Cyber Security Professionals
and promoting Northern Ireland as a leading UK Ecosystem of Ecosystems Partnership in Innovation
cyber security innovation ecosystem through spin- and Cybersecurity (Global EPIC) which now counts 1600
out commercialisation of research, the scale-up 28 keystones in 17 countries across North America,
of local and regional businesses and attracting Europe, India, Africa, Asia and Oceania as members. 1400
foreign direct investment. CSIT’s regional impact 1200
has ensured Northern Ireland is the number one The most powerful innovation happens at the
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international investment location for US cyber ‘Intersection’, where ideas and concepts from
security development projects. diverse industries, cultures, and disciplines collide. 800 CSIT 2 Funding Commences
Now in its 9th year, the CSIT World Cyber Security 600
This burgeoning cyber security innovation Summit has brought together a select group of
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ecosystem has grown significantly and now over 1000 international cyber security experts
numbers 40+ companies employing approximately from government, industry, entrepreneurs, venture 200
1600 cyber security professionals delivering £60M capital, civic society and academia across all events CSIT Est. 2009
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per annum in salaries to the local economy. The to date. The output from each Summit informs the
cyber security industry supports approximately 750 CSIT research and innovation roadmap.
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SHAPING GOVERNMENT POLICY
AND SUPPORTING IT GLOBALLY
Since being established CSIT has worked closely • UK Department for Digital, Culture,
with Government agencies such as the Home Media and Sport (DCMS)
Office, DSTL, GCHQ and the NCSC through UK Cyber Security Sectoral Analysis 2018
our advisory board to help shape the technology and 2020
landscape. Furthermore, our staff have advised
local and national government departments on • UK Department for International Trade
a variety of strategic initiatives and policies in UK Cyber Security Export Strategy
relation to cyber security.
• UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
UN International Cyber Norms GGE and OEWG
• MATRIX
Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel, 2016 • UK Delegation to ITU
Digital ICT Report ITU-T Study Group 17 (Security)
• UK Cabinet Office • UK Delegation to ETSI
National Cyber Security Strategy 2016 to 2021 TC Cyber including WG on quantum safe
cryptography
• Department of the Economy
Industrial Strategy for Northern Ireland • UK Cyber Trade Missions to Washington, Israel,
Singapore, India, Vienna
• Department of Finance
NI Cyber Security Strategic Framework for • All-Ireland Cyber Security Group
Action
• Northern Ireland Cyber Leadership Board
• Royal Society
Progress and research in cybersecurity: • UK Cyber Growth Partnership
Supporting a resilient and trustworthy system
for the UK
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RECOGNITION
CSIT’s diverse team has had its impact recognised
on the national and international stage, including:
FUNDERS
• Queens Anniversary Prize 2015 • Athena SWAN
Queens Anniversary Prize 2015 CSIT was Awarded the prestigious Athena SWAN Silver
CSIT has been fortunate to have had strong
honoured by Her Majesty the Queen for its work award in recognition of its work to support
and supportive core funding partnerships with
in strengthening global cyber security women in science
InnovateUK, the Engineering and Physical
• Professor Máire O’Neill • PicoPUF Sciences Research Council and Invest Northern
Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists 2019 UK Led by Dr Neil Hanley, Professor Maire O’Neill, Ireland. They have shared our vision and took
Awards Finalist – Physical Sciences & Engineering and Dr Chongyan Gu, won the 2015 INVENT the bold step of investing in world leading
award grand prize for innovative start-ups cyber security research harnessed to a strong
• Dr Niall McLaughlin entrepreneurial team of innovators to deliver
Finalist in the Mobile World Scholar Challenge • Professor Maire O’Neill impact and a dynamic ecosystem. This has been
at MWC19 in Barcelona for his work on Deep Awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering 2014 strategically important in delivering economic
Learning for Mobile Malware Detection Silver Medal, which recognises outstanding impact for Northern Ireland as a region and for
personal contribution by an early or mid-career the whole of the United Kingdom.
• Professor Sir John McCanny engineer that has resulted in successful market
Received Northern Ireland’s only Knighthood in exploitation
the 2017 New Year’s Honours list in recognition
for his services to higher education and • Liopa
economic development Led by Dr Darryl Stewart, David Crozier, Dr
Fabian Campbell-West and Dr Michael Loughlin
• Professor John McCanny won the Software and Digital Media category at
Inaugurated as Northern Ireland’s first Regius the 2013 INVENT Awards
Professor in December 2016
• Professor John McCanny
• Dr Sandra Scott Hayward Awarded the Royal Irish Academy’s Cunningham
Awarded the Outstanding Leadership Award medal (2011), its most prestigious honour
2016 by the Open Networking Foundation for
her work on the Security Working Group
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THE FUTURE OF CSIT
We have exciting plans for the future under the theme
of ‘Secure Connected Intelligence’. Investments in
infrastructure are already coming on stream as part
of the Belfast City Region deal. We are looking to the
East and West, North and South, to build a coalition of
partners across the academic, industrial, government
and investment communities to build on the core
investment to date and cement CSIT’s position as a
strategic national asset.
Our own research roadmap features new
developments in the areas of:
• Practical privacy preserving technologies
• Supply chain security and hardware trojan detection
• Resilience in industrial control systems
• AI for cyber security
• Inconspicuous security through smart network
technologies
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