Security and Protection Science

Security and Protection Science is an exciting initiative launched by Lancaster University to grow our world class interdisciplinary academic capability to help keep nations and citizens safe and secure as cyber emerges as an essential domain in global protection strategies. Through a £19m investment, the University is seeking creative and disruptive individuals to tackle the full range of societal and technological security challenges to support of the rapidly growing North West Cyber Corridor.

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Security and Protection Science at Lancaster

Security and Protection Science builds on Lancaster's credentials as a world leader in cyber security and protection science, with its cross-disciplinary expertise recognised through being one of only a handful of universities nationally to be identified by the National Cyber Security Centre as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research and Cyber Security Education.

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Beyond Cyber 2024: A Look Back at an Extraordinary Series

The 2024 Beyond Cyber Security series has officially concluded, and as the festive season approaches, it’s the perfect time to reflect on what has been an extraordinary set of events.

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Supporting cybersecurity through faultless programming: A guide to Dafny

A Lancaster academic, in collaboration with the Australian National University, explores potential ways in which to achieve defect-free coding, creating a “beginners guide” to verification software.
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University-led £4.9 million initiative to turbocharge North West England’s cyber ambitions

A major new project will fuel the potential of the North West cyber sector to keep the UK at the forefront of cutting-edge cyber security. 
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Cyber Security Executive MBA shortlisted for innovation strategy award

Lancaster University Management School has been shortlisted for the Best Innovation Strategy 2025 award at the AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards 2025 for its Cyber Security Executive MBA programme (CEMBA) delivered in partnership with Templar Executives.
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Dead Man’s PLC: A new cyber threat in the industrial world?

Researchers at Orange Cyberdefence collaborate with Lancaster’s School of Computing and Communications to outline the possibility of a new way cyber criminals could target systems crucial to the functioning of industry-based systems.
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Data Science and Cyber Security Master's Poster Exhibition

Over 100 students, academics, and project hosts gathered in Infolab for the annual Master's Poster Conference. Once again, there was an extremely impressive range of posters on display, which demonstrated the projects that the students had performed across many areas of data science and cyber security.

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Events

13th Jan

Are you ready to tackle the challenges of tomorrow? Find your future in Cyber, Data or AI

Monday 13 January 2025, 10:00am to Tuesday 14 January 2025, 4:00pm
11th Apr

Cybernetic Culture Workshop: Consumption, Security & Society in the Digital Age

Friday 11 April 2025, 9:00am to 5:00pm

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