Our research concentrates on developing innovative cyber security technologies for high-assurance cyber defence, detection, mitigation, and response to enable cyber resilience at speed and scale.

This area focuses on developing methods and frameworks for the secure use, storage, and communication of data, developing trustworthy software and protecting infrastructure.

Research in this area operates at the behavioural level to understand the mechanisms through which interactions between users and systems can deliver negative or positive outcomes for cyber security and resilience.

This research focuses specifically on identifying and disrupting the diverse range of threat actors involved in diverse cyber harms – including individual criminals, groups, and states – and their activities, as well as facilitating cooperation amongst those responsible for preventing and responding to such harms.

Our research applies to all aspects of CREST activities to reflect the diverse range of governance, policies and regulatory responses that can be harnessed to improve cyber resilience at the individual, organisational, and societal levels.