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Centre for Secure, Intelligent and Usable Systems
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Who we work with

Building on the centre's existing strong links with industry and the public sector, we have established and nurtured strong strategic relationships with partners across five key application contexts: health, education, culture, public administration and services, critical infrastructures.

In each of these areas we provide strong and regular collaborations through KTPs, consultancy, and small and large research projects:

Health

We have significant experience of applying our research in health-related applications, including security and privacy models for health data exchange, technology acceptance in ehealth and mobile applications development for NHS health records. We have established working collaborations with important stakeholders both nationally (e.g. NHS trusts, Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research) and internationally (e.g. Bambino Ges. Paediatric Hospital).

Education

We have applied our research on user-centred design approaches to the design of mobile and ubiquitous devices and applications, particularly in the domains of learning. Moreover, we have applied semantic analysis of student learning.

Culture

We have significant experience of applying our research in the Culture sector, including analysis of 3D content in digital repositories, historical text mining of archives, and game-based crowd-sourcing of curatorial work. We have extended collaborations with relevant stakeholders including the Royal Pavilion and Museums, Historic England and the Natural History Museum, to name few of them.

Public administration and services

We have applied our research to develop platforms that empower citizens to achieve desired levels of privacy and public administration authorities to improve transparency with respect to privacy of citizen data. We have collaborated with international stakeholders from national authorities (e.g. the Italian Ministry of Finance) and local authorities (e.g. Municipality of Athens) and we are developing further collaboration opportunities with new entities, such as The Pensions Regulator.

Critical Infrastructures

We have developed novel modelling and visualisation techniques and have applied them to case studies to decrease the threat of data and identity theft, understand 5G security vulnerabilities and simulate propagation of security threats on connected infrastructures. We have developed collaborations with large stakeholders from industry (e.g. NOKIA, Fujitsu) and critical infrastructure owners (e.g. Maritime ports and Telecommunication companies such as OTE).

Application Domains

We apply our work in various important sectors of human society and we work with organisations in those areas through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs), consultancy, and small and large research projects

Examples of our collaborations

Hospitals in Spain and Italy, and government departments in France, Italy and Greece

Funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme, the two-year ‘VisiOn: Visual Privacy Management in User-Centric Open Environments’ project has concluded with the successful development of a visual privacy management platform that enables citizens and public administrations to understand and visualise their privacy needs. It identifies conflicts with regard to different privacy needs and privacy laws and it provides warnings to citizens and organisations informing them of potential privacy breaches.

Horizon 2020
The university developed novel methods for the modelling and analysis of security and privacy requirements that are key for the privacy threat analysis performed by the VisiOn platform. We also developed a corresponding tool that automates the analysis and integrates with the rest of the platform components.

Professor Haris Mouratidis, Professor of Software Systems Engineering

Knowledge Transfer Partnership

Working with Family Law Partners, we are delivering a two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), utilising the University’s knowledge engineering and artificial intelligence expertise to develop a triage style system to underpin a novel model of family law provision.

By partnering with the University, Family Law Partners receive a programmer who is able to help build capacity and transfer technical knowledge to the team. By having the programmer based in the Family Law Partners office, and immersed in their family law culture, the programmer sees first-hand the challenges the partner have as family lawyers and the desire they have to better service their clients’ needs through new technology.

Family Law

Accessible reasoning with diagrams

Working with Nokia Networks and Horizons Regional Council, Brighton, University of Cambridge and Leverhulme Trust are developing a series of case studies based on real world problems and properties that end users must model and reason about. Modelling and formal reasoning is required in many real-world domains in order to convey knowledge unambiguously and correctly, yet the practitioners in these domains are typically not logic experts. Thus, currently available symbolic logic approaches are inadequate and often lead to errors in handling data, delays in product release, and even breaches in consumer privacy. We provide a solution: a new formal diagrammatic logic for developing, debugging, communicating and reasoning rigorously yet accessibly about domain models. Thus, the project has the potential to revolutionise approaches to modelling and reasoning across a wide range of sectors.

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Using a real world case study - Iron Age settlement of Castrolandin, Spain

This collaboration built privacy and trust as part of a cultural heritage conceptual model. Using a real world case study from the Iron Age settlement of Castrolandin in Spain, the University of Brighton has been working alongside the Institute of Heritage Sciences, Spanish National Research Council, to examine issues around privacy and trust in the creation and management of cultural heritage resources.

Institute of Heritage Sciences Spanish National Research Council
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