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.

Read The Security Future Capability Paper

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.