UCL Cybersecurity

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Cybersecurity at University College London (UCL) is in a unique position to deliver on it's interdisciplinary vision of cybersecurity, because of its ambitious portfolio of projects and over 40 faculty members with internationally excellent expertise across many aspects of cybersecurity. The challenges that arise from the integration of emerging technologies into existing social, commercial, legal and political systems will not be resolved by specialists working in isolation. Rather, these complex problems require the efforts of people who can cross disciplinary boundaries, communicate beyond their own fields, and comprehend the context in which others operate. Computer science and engineering, information security, encryption, criminology, psychology, international relations, public policy, philosophy of science, legal studies, and economics combine to form the ecosystem within which cybersecurity problems and solutions are found but training people to think and work across these boundaries has proven difficult. The team is led by the Computer Science department, which was the top UK department by research output in the UK REF 2014. UCL is recognized by GCHQ as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research and Teaching.