Mission

The Centre of Excellence aims to help make the UK government, business, and consumers more resilient to cyber attack by extending knowledge and enhancing skills in cyber security.  In particular, our mission is to:

• Enhance the UK’s cyber knowledge base through original research
• Provide top quality graduates in the field of cyber security
• Support NCSC's cyber defence mission
• Drive up the advancements and the level of innovation

Core Groups

A number of institutes and research groups constitute the core components of the centre:

• Information Security Research Group
• Science of Cyber Security Research Institute
• Systems and Networking Research Group
• Software System Engineering Research Group
• Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science
• Dept of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP)