Industry Engagement & Research Translation
CSIT's model of innovation has been at the heart of it's success over the last 15 years. It allows research to translate to industry in an agile way, ensuring demonstrable technology is in the hands of end users quickly. Examples include:
- Partnering with BAE Systems on video based semantic analysis of crowd behaviour for the UK Defence and Security Accelerator.
- Thales have used our novel PUF technology in demonstrators for electronic component anti-counterfeiting and enhanced secure-boot.
- Working with Thales to successfully demonstrate the use of public key cryptography in satellite applications for the first time.
- A collaboration with TES Group, led to the discovery of a critical vulnerability affecting critical national infrastructure networks globally. As a result the vendor developed mitigation measures ensuring the vulnerability cannot be exploited by hackers.
- Working with Linz AG, an electrical distribution company in Austria, to reveal several problems and vulnerabilities in SCADA networks.
- We have open-sourced tools for testing the security of SDN devices - DELTA (SDN Security Evaluation) and TENNISON (SDN Security Framework).
- Collaborating with Allstate to apply cyber security research to the problem of detecting anomalous and fraudulent insurance claims.
- Working with B-Secur to refine the accuracy of their ECG authentication technology.
- The application of CSIT’s video analytics technology in chicken welfare, in collaboration with the Institute for Global Food Security at QUB and CattleEye with funding from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) and McDonald’s.
- A proof-of-concept project with Salunda to apply CSIT’s video analytics IP to use cases in the oil and gas industry.
- Collaborating with Nokia Bell Labs on the acceleration of Homomorphic Encryption using customised hardware for privacy preserving machine learning applications.