United Kingdom – Network Security
Overall scope
Present and future digital business models rely on interlinked and interdependent information infrastructures, enabled by appropriate security models. The Network Security Innovation Platform (NSIP) from the Technology Strategy Board looks into how to predict and mitigate information risks within digital services and infrastructures.
R&D Scope
Trust, Security, Privacy, Identity
The Network Security Innovation Platform is made of a number of interwoven, structured initiatives involving industry-led collaborative R&D efforts. Recent initiatives included:
- £4M investment in projects for “Trust Economics”
- £5.5M investment (with ESRC & EPSRC) in projects for “Ensuring Privacy and Consent”
- £6M investment (with EPSRC and CPNI) in projects for “Information Infrastructure Protection: managing complexity, risk and resilience”
Expected impact
NSIP aims to make the UK a more prosperous and secure environment for both the enterprise and the individual, in the face of the risks of information being compromised by disclosure (confidentiality), unreliability (integrity) or being unreachable (availability).
Alongside this, it is hoped that step changes within digital trust models and verification systems, software development and news design will bring about experimentation with and emergence of new business models.
Involved constituency
Technology Strategy Board, EPSRC, UK’s Home Office (Interior Ministry), a number of participating universities and businesses, including Hewlett Packard.
