School of Computing News

The Institute for Cyber Security in Society (iCSS) aims to get young people more engaged with cyber security while at school, leading to a more cyber-aware population, able to protect themselves against online threats. Part of their work involves working with local schools to make cyber security a more accessible topic. On 28th February 2023, iCSS hosted two CyberFirst sessions, one Trail...

On 3 March the UCISA, a professional body for digital practitioners in education, launched the Cyber Incident Communications Toolkit, created for UK higher education institutions to plan the communications response during a major cyber incident. The toolkit, which is based on research by Dr Jason Nurse – Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Cyber Security at Kent – focuses on the importance ...

Students from the University of Kent took part in the global Atlantic Council Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge in London last month. The Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge is an annual cyber policy and strategy competition where students from across the globe compete in developing policy recommendations tackling a fictional cyber catastrophe. Lead by Gareth Mott, the team consisting of Nur Tekin, Leah Arlaud, Toby Hudson (Politics and International Relations) a...

Why did you choose Kent? I chose Kent because of the Year in Industry scheme as I felt it was a great way to gain professional experience while also getting a break from my degree. Canterbury also seemed like a nice city when I first visited during an open-day. Where did you go for your Year in Industry and why? For my placement I worked for IBM at their Hursley campus. I chose IBM as they’ve been a staple name within the technology industry for so man...

Every year, David Barnes (@kentdjb) encourages the School of Computing students to take part in a competitive coding challenge called Advent of Code. As the name suggests, it runs from December 1st to Christmas day, with two increasingly difficult puzzles to solve each day. They can be solved using any programming language and are an excellent way for the students to improve their coding skills. Over 250 thousand people wor...

Using electronic devices has become almost a necessity in our day-to-day lives. For this reason, it’s never been more important for us to be cyber aware. With it being Safer Internet Day, here’s some great work that The Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) have done to promote online safety for younger generations. The increasing digitalisation of the modern society has been reshaping how we live and do business. This also leads to man...

PhD Student Clare Patterson talks to Dell Technologies on their Need to Know podcast about how organisations can learn to understand incident causation and the underlying causes of a cyber attack.  Listen to the full podcast on Spotify Clare gained a Masters in Information Security in the 1990s, when the organisations principally interested in cyber security were the military and banks. Over the last 30 years, she has ...

On 1 January, the internet turned 40. This date is considered the official birthday of the Internet, thanks to the switch from Network Control Protocol to Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, a key transition that paved the way for today's Internet. During its brief but busy life to date, it has revolutionised the way we work, communicate, shop, manage our finances and much more. However, it has al...

We spoke to Theo Henault, winner of the CIISec Project of the Year Award, about his time at Kent this year! How would you describe your project to someone who's never studied the area? My project consists of analysing, implementing, and comparing several remote searchable encryption protocols to create a new protocol that combine their different pr...

Living, Learning and Connecting in Cyberspace We increasingly rely upon networked technologies and the internet infrastructures upon which these rely; the myriad miles of fibreoptic cables, the banks of servers, the lofty data centres and the ever-encircling satellites. However, these integral systems are often unseen, overlooked, and sometimes intentionally concealed. Additionally, the software and hardware that we see in our everyday environments – ...