U.K. Invests Heavily in ICS Cyber Security Research

By Eduard Kovacs on October 03, 2014
 
Several universities in the United Kingdom have set out to conduct new research into the cyber security of the country's vital industrial control systems (ICS), thanks to significant new funding.
Industrial control systems such as the ones used in manufacturing plants, power stations, the electricity grid and rail networks are increasingly targeted by threat actors, and more and more countries have begun to recognize that the effects of a successful cyberattack could be devastating.
 
The new research being conducted in the United Kingdom, which benefits from a total investment of£2.5 million (roughly $4 million), is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which is the country's main agency for funding research in engineering and physical sciences, and the UK's National Cyber Security Programme. The research is actively supported by the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) and the intelligence agency GCHQ.
 
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