Ross Brown talking to Prof. John Goodacre University of Manchester talking about the UK Research and Innovation

South West Cyber Beat

This podcast is led by Prof. John Goodacre: University of Manchester who is here to tell us all about the UK Research and Innovation

John is Professor of Computer Architectures at the Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester in the UK having previously spent 17 years with Arm Ltd as the Director of Technology and Systems where he defined and introduced the first multicore processors and other core technologies. He is also appointed by UK government's Research & Innovation agency as the Director of the Digital Security by Design Challenge Fund, a £200M programme to enable industry and researchers to create a step change in approach to cybersecurity, blocking vulnerabilities by design and protecting the operation and data by default. His research interest include web-scale servers, exascale efficient systems and secure and ubiquitous computing.
The UK’s National Cyber Strategy realises that the unsustainable “react and patch” approach to cyber security today, is not enough to shift the needle against cybercrime.
UK Government acknowledge that it is imperative that businesses move to ensure products are delivered to be more secure by design.
The continuous cycle of patching and mitigating vulnerabilities is at the core of today’s organisation’s strategy to protect their cyber-attack surface.

Cybercriminals only need to be right once, while defenders need to be right all the time.

The Digital Security by Design Challenge (DSbD), run by UKRI, is rethinking how computers are built to be inherently more secure from cyber-attacks.
As always tanks to Richard Smithson and his music from the album Upbeat