
The University of Portsmouth has an enrolment of approximately 23,500 students and 1,490 academic staff. It is ranked in the top 401-500 University in the world by the Times Higher Education World University rankings and 21st by the Guardian University Guide. It is one of only 4 Universities in the South East of England to have been awarded the highest Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence framework. The University’s contributions will be led by staff in the School of Computing (https://www.port.ac.uk/computing), who belong to the School’s Cyber Security research group. This group is a part of the cross-University strategic thematic area of Security and Risk (https://www.port.ac.uk/research/themes/security-and-risk). The Security and Risk research area has over 30 academic staff across different discipline areas (encompassing computing, business, management, humanities and psychology). The School’s Cyber Security research group has 10 academic staff and approximately 20 PhD students. The group is home to the Protective Security and Risk Assessment program area of the UK’s Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (https://crestresearch.ac.uk/).The group has extensive expertise in the domain of cyber security, particularly the human and organizational aspects (e.g. security awareness, education and culture, risk assessment, and the usability of security) and technical domains (e.g. biometrics, malware analysis, anonymizing networks and the application of computational intelligence algorithms to identify threats). Moreover, the faculty and research staff of Computing have substantial experience in EU and nationally funded projects and has a long track record of R&D work in key areas of security and health related research. This includes activity within in a number of relevant national, European and international collaborative research programs.