Security Expert Working Group

The UK Telecoms Innovation Network (UKTIN) Security Expert Working Group will identify important emerging challenges for building UK capability in telecoms security.

Aligned with established methods and best practices in ensuring system security and its maintenance, the SIG will explore new innovation opportunities for UK industry enabled by knowledge, novel algorithms, and tools and mitigations delivered by R&D projects.

Working in close collaboration with industrial and academic experts, the security group will address a range of key issues and questions.

As Chair of the Security Expert Working Group I'm committed to enabling government and industry to work more closely together to better understand each other's needs.”

DAVE HAPPY

Independent Consultant

  • 19

    government-recognised and supported Cybersecurity Academic Centres of Excellence in the UK

  • 10.93 %

    Expected annual growth rate in the UK cybersecurity market (2023-2027)

  • 50 %

    of UK businesses report a basic technical cyber security skills gap

Our Focus Areas
  • Policy and regulatory requirements
    Policy and regulatory requirements

    What policy and regulatory requirements relating to secure connectivity can accelerate innovation in future networks, including 6G, over the next decade?

  • Implications of emerging trends
    Implications of emerging trends

    What opportunities and challenges do emerging technologies and trends, such as quantum technologies or Web 3.0 with its associated ambitions, pose to the telecoms industry?  And how does decentralisation become embedded in supply chain development?

  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning
    Artificial intelligence and machine learning

    How can AI / ML learnings be trusted, for instance when applied to security forensics or as a protective or detective control measure in a live system?

  • The impact of increasingly complex and connected systems
    The impact of increasingly complex and connected systems

    Increasingly complex and connected systems pose numerous challenges and questions such as the protection of shared virtualises resources.

  • Policy and regulatory requirements
    Policy and regulatory requirements

    What policy and regulatory requirements relating to secure connectivity can accelerate innovation in future networks, including 6G, over the next decade?

  • Implications of emerging trends
    Implications of emerging trends

    What opportunities and challenges do emerging technologies and trends, such as quantum technologies or Web 3.0 with its associated ambitions, pose to the telecoms industry?  And how does decentralisation become embedded in supply chain development?

  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning
    Artificial intelligence and machine learning

    How can AI / ML learnings be trusted, for instance when applied to security forensics or as a protective or detective control measure in a live system?

  • The impact of increasingly complex and connected systems
    The impact of increasingly complex and connected systems

    Increasingly complex and connected systems pose numerous challenges and questions such as the protection of shared virtualises resources.

Key People

  • Dave Happy

    Independent Consultant

  • Jon Renshaw

    Deputy Director of Commercial Research

    NCC Group

  • Anas Tawileh

    Senior Advisory Consultant

    AWS

  • Stephen Douglas

    Head of Market Strategy

    Spirent

  • Rob Leedenherts

    Board Director of INCA

    NGIS UK

  • Colin Wood

    Innovation Lead

    Dorset Council

  • Siraj Ahmed Shaikh

    Professor in Systems Security

    Swansea University

  • Stephen Douglas

    Head of Market Strategy

    Spirent

  • Vasilis Katos

    Professor of Cyber Security

    Bournemouth University

  • Hamid Falaki

    Specialist Adviser

    University of Bristol

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