Exciting News for Cardiff University

Firstly the Hub would like to congratulate Pete Burnap, Professor of Data Science & Cybersecurity, and Director of the Airbus Centre of Excellence in Cybersecurity Analytics, on being given a Professorial promotion in August. The hub recognises this as a huge achievement for Professor Burnap, both personally and professionally.

We are further delighted to announce that Cardiff has been named as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) .

They join 14 other universities forming the Government’s National Cyber Security Strategy. The award recognises excellence in research developed over a number of years at Cardiff and whose academics will now feed into the UK Government’s strategy of making the UK the safest place to be online and to help support the country’s digital economy.

Professor Burnap commented “We are delighted to receive this recognition as it evidences our long track-record of research excellence in cyber security.

“Our core identity is the interdisciplinary fusion of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, a concept we call Cyber Security Analytics. AI is at the heart of the UK government’s industrial strategy and our aim is to innovate with AI to improve automated cyber threat intelligence and support decision making and policy responses to make the UK more secure for individuals, business and the government.”

“We are proud to be the first Welsh university to be recognised by NCSC for our cyber research capability, and we hope to build on the impressive expertise that already exists across the region between academia, government and business.”