School of Computing News

With Christmas just around the corner many parents are still looking for the perfect gifts for their children. In a season that can see them spend up to £1,000 on tech goods, many of us forget the risks that come with bringing new devices into the home. As people start waking up to the risks involved with smart technology – including Parliament, which has recently approved the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill – ...

iCSS held its Kent Cyber Security Festival (KCSF) 2022 at this year’s University of Kent Youth Summit. The Festival was an opportunity for school pupils in years 9, 10 and 11 to learn how they can stay safe online, as well as what cyber security might mean in a personal context and as a potential future career. One session, led by PhD student and iCSS Research Assistant Krysia Waldock, was based on mis- and disinforma...

This year, iCSS hosted the 24th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2022) at the main campus of the University of Kent, in Canterbury, Kent, UK. The conference took place over four days, from 5 to 8 September, and hosted a number of presentations and demonstrations, both in-person and online. The first keynote of the conference, 'Future Challenge...

Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security, Dr Jason Nurse, has joined behavioural risk platform, CybSafe, to challenge traditional thinking around cybersecurity awareness and training.  CybSafe is an organisation who’s mission it is to provide support and training to organisations in order for them to better protect themselves against online threats. "Few cybersecurity companies build products grounded in scientific...

The University's Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries (iCCi) have announced Jim Ang as its new Deputy Director. Jim is currently Senior Lecturer in the University of Kent School of Computing, where his main research expertise lies in digital health, specifically in co-designing, deploying and evaluating immersive and sensing technologies in healthcare settings. His team has developed prototypes including virtual reality systems for people with ...

Sharifah Roziah Binti Mohd Kassim, 3rd Year PhD student at iCSS and the School of Computing, together with her PhD supervisors Professor Shujun Li (iCSS Director) and Dr Budi Arief (iCSS Innovation Lead), won the Best Paper Award (Experience and Practice Track) at the IEEE DSC 2022 (5th IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing), which was held on 22-24 June, 2022, in Edinburgh, UK and online as a hybrid event. The...

One of our technicians at University of Kent, Joanna Scamp scooped second prize for her portrait of another technician, Antonio, testing a 3D printed antenna in our specialist Antennas Lab. Staff working within the technical community stood the chance of winning great prizes by showing their photography and imaging skills at the annual IST Technical Conference this year. The theme was 'teams behind the scenes'. Applicants were required to subm...

The Careers and Employability Service took around 80 second-year students to the UBS offices in London to hear more about their placement schemes. The event is a first of its kind for UBS and was designed for Kent students who might be interested in working in banking in the future. UBS provides financial advice and solutions to private, institutional, and corporate clients worldwide and has more than 70,000 employees in more than 50 countries. The day start...

Dr Jason nurse will join Maria Bada (Queen Mary University London), Steven Furnell (University of Nottingham) in investigating current practices in relation to the drivers and unique obstacles that SMEs face, in making privacy-aware decisions. The project, funded by REPHRAIN (the National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online), aims to help SMEs unders...

A research report by the University's Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS), funded by Global Affairs Canada and commissioned through the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) Research Agenda mechanism, has revealed major insights about cyber security education in pre-university settings and provided recommendations to various stakeholders on how to address some identified concerns. The research was conducted...