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ECIT to house secure IT centre
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20/11/2008
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In a move worth £25million, Queen’s University Belfast is to become the UK’s lead centre for developing technology to counter ‘cyber attacks’.
The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) – to be based at Queen’s Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) in Belfast – will create the security infrastructure needed to safeguard the trustworthiness of information stored electronically, both at home and in the workplace. The centre will bring together research specialists in such fields as data encryption, network security systems, wireless enabled security systems and intelligent surveillance technology.
Along with £6.95m from the EPSRC, CSIT is being backed by £2.5m from the Technology Strategy Board, £7m from industry and £8.8m from Queen’s University.
ECIT director Professor John McCanny, pictured, said: “The new Centre at ECIT will develop secure solutions to a number of particularly modern problems, including the protection of mobile phone networks, guaranteeing privacy over unsecure networks for connected healthcare and the creation of secure ‘corridors’ for the seamless and rapid transit of people, thus getting around the need for conventional security at airports.”
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Author
Graham Pitcher
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