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Contrary to perceived wisdom, there is no compelling evidence that victims of ransomware with cyber insurance are much more likely to pay ransoms than those without. That's the conclusion of a new piece of analysis titled Cyber Insurance and the Ransomware Challenge, conducted by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the University of Kent, Oxford Brookes University and De Montfort University.  The report explores the extent to whic...

Graduating with a Distinction in his Cyber Security MSc, Gabriel Ruaud talks to us about his time at Kent and how the institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) supported his ambitions, which included sponsorship for extra EC-Council certification. Why did you choose Kent? I chose Kent because of the excellent MSc in Cyber Security program and its partnership with my engineering school in France. What are you doing now,...

The Institute for Cyber Security in Society (iCSS) aims to get young people more engaged with cyber security while at school, leading to a more cyber-aware population, able to protect themselves against online threats. Part of their work involves working with local schools to make cyber security a more accessible topic. On 28th February 2023, iCSS hosted two CyberFirst sessions, one Trail...

On 3 March the UCISA, a professional body for digital practitioners in education, launched the Cyber Incident Communications Toolkit, created for UK higher education institutions to plan the communications response during a major cyber incident. The toolkit, which is based on research by Dr Jason Nurse – Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Cyber Security at Kent – focuses on the importance ...

Students from the University of Kent took part in the global Atlantic Council Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge in London last month. The Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge is an annual cyber policy and strategy competition where students from across the globe compete in developing policy recommendations tackling a fictional cyber catastrophe. Lead by Gareth Mott, the team consisting of Nur Tekin, Leah Arlaud, Toby Hudson (Politics and International Relations) a...

Using electronic devices has become almost a necessity in our day-to-day lives. For this reason, it’s never been more important for us to be cyber aware. With it being Safer Internet Day, here’s some great work that The Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) have done to promote online safety for younger generations. The increasing digitalisation of the modern society has been reshaping how we live and do business. This also leads to man...

PhD Student Clare Patterson talks to Dell Technologies on their Need to Know podcast about how organisations can learn to understand incident causation and the underlying causes of a cyber attack.  Listen to the full podcast on Spotify Clare gained a Masters in Information Security in the 1990s, when the organisations principally interested in cyber security were the military and banks. Over the last 30 years, she has ...

On 1 January, the internet turned 40. This date is considered the official birthday of the Internet, thanks to the switch from Network Control Protocol to Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, a key transition that paved the way for today's Internet. During its brief but busy life to date, it has revolutionised the way we work, communicate, shop, manage our finances and much more. However, it has al...

iCSS held its Kent Cyber Security Festival (KCSF) 2022 at this year’s University of Kent Youth Summit. The Festival was an opportunity for school pupils in years 9, 10 and 11 to learn how they can stay safe online, as well as what cyber security might mean in a personal context and as a potential future career. One session, led by PhD student and iCSS Research Assistant Krysia Waldock, was based on mis- and disinforma...

This year, iCSS hosted the 24th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2022) at the main campus of the University of Kent, in Canterbury, Kent, UK. The conference took place over four days, from 5 to 8 September, and hosted a number of presentations and demonstrations, both in-person and online. The first keynote of the conference, 'Future Challenge...