Connecting CRANE with the wider community in business and government
- Technology Trends
A key role of CRANE is to anticipate the cyber security challenges of new and emerging technologies. To begin this process, we have launched the first part of our Delphi study on “Technology Trends” where we ask our members and stakeholders to score new and emerging technologies according to whether it will pose new security challenges, based on the following criteria.
New technologies:
- Will need to be secured in new ways; or
- Pose a challenge or opportunity to existing approaches to cybersecurity; or
- Are likely to be exploited by bad actors; or
- Interact with global challenges (e.g. climate change, increased polarisation, or ageing population, etc) to create new or novel threats
The first stage of this process is a simple single ranking that will allow us to prioritise the technologies to focus on in later stages, that will in turn lead to funding calls around these technologies or their socio-technical impacts.
You can help out our work and contribute to this exciting initiative by visiting:
https://uniofbath.questionpro.eu/t/AB3u4oTZB3wOhS
- Business Round-Table #1
Barriers to business engagement with cyber security research
CRANE is funded by the UK EPSRC to strengthen the cyber security research community. Its core role is as a network connecting UK academics supporting them in their research and career development. In order to achieve its goals, that work needs challenge from outside, some needs collaboration on facilities and use cases, and when valuable research results are achieved, CRANE will help to achieve impact in the wider world.
In order to develop processes for achieving this, CRANE will hold a series of round-table discussions, online, with a broad invitation to discuss steps forward.
The first round-table will explore what is working well – and critically, areas for improvement – in building engagement between business and government, and the academic research community. The outcomes will help to inform the evolution of the design of the CRANE work programme, and where relevant will be fed back to UKRI and other parts of government.
The event will be held online, at a date to be announced, in late November 2025