Presentation given by Robin Kennedy of the Knowledge Transfer Network at the IoT Thames Valley Meetup on 21 November 2018

1. TV IoT Update – 21st November 2018
Robin Kennedy
Cyber Security
Knowledge Transfer Network

2. Background
Cyber Security Academic Startups Accelerator Programme
• established in 2017
• commercialise UK academic ideas
• supported by DCMS (the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
• funding through the National Cyber Security Strategy 2016-2021
• delivered in partnership with Innovate UK and Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN).

3. Year 1 programme
• 16 Applications / 13 Universities
• January - October 2017 : two phases
– Market Validation : 12 Projects
– Building a Minimum Viable Product : 7 Projects
• Demo Day on 19th October 2017
• 7 projects graduated

4. Year 1 Success stories
GraphicsFuzz – Imperial College
“Security and Reliability Testing for Graphics Processors”
• Acquired by Google in August 2018 for an undisclosed sum. The three founders have joined Google’s
Android Graphics Team based in London. Code is now open source (github)
KETS Quantum Security – University of Bristol
“Desktop integrated quantum random number generator”
• Named “UK’s most innovative small cyber security company 2018” at Information Security Europe 2018
Awen Collective – University of South Wales
“Next Generation Digital Forensics Software Solutions for Complex Industrial Systems”
• Received funding from Welsh Government. Crowned Cyber Den Champion at CyberUK 2018 Exhibition

5. Year 2 programme
• 35 Applications / 23 Universities
• January 2018 – January 2019 : three phases
– Development of Value Proposition : 26 Projects
– Market Validation of Value Proposition : 17 Projects
– Development of Prototype / Minimum Viable Product (MVP) : 13 Projects
• Demo Day 17th January 2019
– 13 Projects from 12 Universities

6. Year 2 Participants – IoT Projects
Cardiff University
A “Smoke Detector” for IoT Security
University of Oxford
Security Monitoring and Administration Residential Toolkit
University of West London
CyMonD : Cyber Monitoring and Defence for IoT Devices
Liverpool John Moores University
Low-Power & Micro-metre-scale True Random Number Generator for IoT hardware security
University of Gloucestershire, Imperial College London
Secure Communications with implantable medical devices using body signals

7. Year 3 programme
• Competition opens February 2019
– Up to £132K grant available (2018 figures)
– UK university, cyber security idea, interest in commercialisation
• Register your interest at cyberasap.co.uk
– Academics for Year 3
– Industrialists / Investors as supporters & Demo Day
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