Following the Collaborators' Workshop held on 26th Sept (presentations available on KTN's SlideShare account), EPSRC/ESRC are running a Collaboration Development workshop on 22nd November 2019 in London to facilitate academia-industry and academia-academia collaboration ahead of the closing dates for the EPSRC and ESRC ISCF Digital Security by Design calls. The calls need to be led by academic institutions. Industrial involvement, while not mandatory, is highly desirable and will be required for future competitions. Hence this workshop aims to have a mix of academic and industrial participants. The Digital Security by Design challenge was announced in July. This challenge, amounting to £70 million of government funding over 5 years, will be delivered by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF). Find out more: https://ktn-uk.co.uk/news/iscf-digital-security-by-design-collaboration-development-workshop

1. EPSRC & ESRC Calls
Marianne Rolph / Charlotte Ashbrooke

2. ISCF Digital Security by Design:
EPSRC Call for Proposals

3. Up to £70M programme (over 5 years) will be delivered by UK Research
and Innovation through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
Aim:
ØRadically update the foundation of the insecure digital computing
infrastructure that underpins the entire economy, creating a new and
secure computer hardware approach that will underpin future digital
products and services across sectors.
ISCF Digital Security by
Design

4. • Leveraging the Capability Hardware concepts and approaches
investigated by the CHERI program (led by the University of
Cambridge), a consortium led by Arm is developing a prototype
silicon-based solution.
• This prototype solution will be made openly available to academics
and businesses across the UK.
EPSRC Call for Proposals:
• Up to £8M (at 80% FEC) available to support academic research
projects within the scope of the Call
Background

5. EPSRC Call Objectives
Objective 1:
• Capability
enabled
hardware
proof and
software
verification
Objective 2:
• Impact on
system
software
and libraries
Objective 3:
• Future
implications
of Capability
Hardware

6. Collaboration Development Workshop: 22 November 2019
Closing date: 07 January 2020
Panel meeting: April 2020
Grants start : June 2020
Call Timeline

7. EPSRC Call contacts
• Natasha Richardson, ICT Theme
Natasha.Richardson@epsrc.ukri.org
• Rhys Perry, ICT Theme
Rhys.Perry@epsrc.ukri.org
• Marianne Rolph, ISCF Digital Security by
Design / Mathematical Sciences Theme
Marianne.Rolph@epsrc.ukri.org

8. ESRC Call for Proposals:
ISCF Digital Security by
Design Social Science Hub+

9. The Digital Security by Design Challenge,
supported through the UK Government’s
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF),
aims to overcome existing market failures and
radically update the foundation of the insecure
digital computing infrastructure that currently
underpins the global economy.
As the security landscape is inherently multi-
dimensional, including cognitive, physical and
virtual spheres – this call will seek to map
these geographies of behaviour, working to
define what it means to be secure, while
encouraging businesses and society to
move beyond simply the adoption of secure
practices.
Background

10. Areas of Interest
Routes to adoption – readiness
levels
Routes to adoption – barriers for
business
Regulatory challenges – barriers
and enablers
Social, Cultural and Commercial
sector differences

11. Challenge Activities
Acting as a hub-and-
spoke network
brokerage, develop
agile, multidisciplinary
networks between
activities and
stakeholders
Hub+
Funding commercially-
focused social science
research on barriers to
adoption
Devolved
Small
Project
Research
Budget

12. • Outline opening date:
15 October 2019
• Outline closing date:
12 December 2019
• Invitation to submit full bid:
February 2020
• Award Confirmation: June 2020
Competition Schedule

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Location (UK)
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Digital Security by Design @
ESRC
dsbd@esrc.ukri.org
Charlotte Ashbrooke
Senior Portfolio Manager - Innovation, Skills and Impact
Charlotte.Ashbrooke@esrc.ukri.org
Sam Field
Policy Officer – Innovation & Impact
Samantha.Field@esrc.ukri.org
Contacts

14. Networking