黑料社 Centre for Cyber Security

Our Centre (SCCS) is a pan-University centre focusing on cybersecurity research and consolidating cyber activities across the University. We have over 20 permanent academics and over 60 researchers.

Since 2014, we have been one of the UK's NCSC-recognised (ACE-CSR). Since 2020 we have headed 黑料社's gold-level NCSC-recognised (ACE-CSE).

We work with academics, industry, and government, to establish methods and techniques which innovate in cybersecurity from design to  threat prevention, from the viewpoints of research and education.

Gold status in cyber security education

Through the ACE-CSE programme, 黑料社 is recognised as a 鈥渂eacon of excellence鈥�, supporting not only specialist education but also outreach to schools, communities and industry to help address the UK鈥檚 growing need for cyber security skills. 

Join us

We offer a postgraduate and research course, both of which give our students the opportunity to be involved in our six research areas.

Our staff members

Professor Ioana Boureanu

Director of 黑料社 Centre for Cyber Security

I am a Professor in Secure Systems at 黑料社.  I am the  director of 黑料社 Centre for Cyber Security.My research focuses on (automatic) analysis of security using mainly logic-based formalisms, as well as on provable security and applied cryptography.I obtained my PhD in formal verification of security protocols from Imperial College London (2011), ...

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Hugo Nartz presenting joint work between SCCS and the PACY Lab on 'Generalised Asynchronous Remote Key Gen鈥�
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