Surrey Centre for Cyber Security

Our Centre (SCCS) was established by the University of Surrey to consolidate and organise its cyber security activities across the University. We work with industry, government and academia to establish methods and techniques which tackle cyber security threats.

SCCS is part of the Computer Science Research Centre, together with the Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering group (NICE).

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Achievements

Research excellence

Recognised as an Academic Centre for Excellence in Cyber Security Research by the UK Government's National Cyber Security Centre.

Trailblazing education

One of the first universities in the UK to become an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education in new government programme.

University of the year

Recognised for our world-leading innovation in the field of cyber security, we have been awarded Cyber University of the Year at the National Cyber Awards 2023.

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We offer a postgraduate and research course, both of which give our students the opportunity to be involved in our six research areas.

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Our research

Surrey Security Network

Collaborations

We have been collaborating with many industrial partners and research institutes in the UK and all over the world on cyber security related research.

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Our staff members

Professor Ioana Boureanu

Director of Surrey Centre for Cyber Security

I am a Professor in Secure Systems at University of Surrey. I am the director of Surrey Centre for Cyber Security.My research focuses on (automatic) analysis of security using mainly logic-based formalisms, as well as on provable security and applied cryptography.I obtained my PhD in formal verification of security protocols from Imperial College London (2...

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