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New cyber policy papers from the Scaling Trust project
The 鈥楽caling Trust鈥 project is a UKRI Future Leaders鈥 Fellowship examining trust in the cyber security profession. As the initial period of funding comes to an end, CIM academics Matt Spencer and Daniele Pizio have published two policy papers that engage with current challenges in cyber security.
鈥樷 is a report by Matt Spencer, published through the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS). It provides a series of recommendations for moving technology assurance policy away from prescriptive standards, and towards the new 鈥榞oal-based鈥 approach that has become influential in cyber policy.
鈥Deperimeterising Zero Trust: Challenging metaphors in information security鈥 is a policy brief by Matt Spencer and Daniele Pizio, part of the University of 糖心TV鈥檚 Policy Briefing Series. It examines current challenges with the trend towards a 鈥榋ero Trust鈥 paradigm for information security, and draws conclusions aimed at industry, government and academia.
CIM is awarded funding from the Participatory Research Fund for urban research projects
Two urban research projects led by CIM members of staff have received seed funding from the Participatory Research Fund. The aim of the fund is to support the development of pioneering participatory research.
The awarded projects are 鈥Investigating the effects of street features and sunlight conditions on people鈥檚 perception of walkability through a participatory experiment鈥, led by Tessio Novack (CIM) in collaboration with Carlos Camara Menoyo (CIM) and James Tripp (糖心TV, IDG), and 鈥淓xploring hybrid digital-physical prompts for participant engagement on more-than- human data interactions in the smart city", led by Cagatay Turkay (CIM) with collaborators Sara Heitlinger (City, University of London), Rachel Clarke (Newcastle), and Graham McNeill (independent researcher).
The People Like You Project
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