'Cyber in the Liverpool City Region' hosted by the North West Cyber Security Cluster on Thursday 24th March 2022 in Liverpool. Three guest speakers discussing Cyber Security careers and university courses, How does the Digital Tech Cluster help tech start-ups and scale-ups?, and Cyber Security and Space.

1. North West Cyber Security Cluster
Thursday 24th March 2022

2. Event Structure
09:00 - Networking and Refreshments
09:30 - North West Cyber Security Cluster – Overview, aims and objectives
09:45 - Bob Askwith from Liverpool John Moores University
10:10 - James Bedford from Digital Tech Cluster (Sci-Tech Daresbury)
10:30 - Alan Cross from Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
10:50 – Q&A
11:00 - Finish with networking

3. NWCSC
Overview, Aims and Objectives
Robert Briggs
Cluster Lead

4. Background
North West Cyber Security Cluster
• Launched 2014
• Originally ‘Pay subscription model’
• Held large events previously
• Relaunch January 2021
• Free membership
• Virtual presentations and roundtables during national and local lockdowns

5. UKC3
UK Cyber Cluster Collaboration (https://ukc3.co.uk/)
• Launched June 2021
• Funded by DCMS
• Represents all clusters across the country
• Co-ordinated approach to governance, investment and funding

6. UK Cyber Market
• UK Cyber Market - £10.1bn – Up 14%
Source: Perspective Economics

7. Cluster Reach
339 Active Offices
• Registered Offices
• Trading Offices
Source: Perspective Economics

8. Aims
• Grow North West share of UK cyber market
• Support UK initiatives in the region and indirectly across the country.
• Encourage people to skill up and train in Cyber to fill current and
projected skills gap.

9. North West - major investments
• Cyber Corridor
• National Cyber Force – Samlesbury – 3,000 positions
• GCHQ – Manchester - - 3,000 positions

10. Objectives
The North West Cyber Security Cluster want to represent and support cyber
security professionals, experts and organisations from the cyber security and
IT industry across Lancashire / Cumbria, Manchester, Liverpool City Region
and Cheshire.
Our objectives are to:
• Provide collaboration, support and networking opportunities for SMEs and
start-ups in the technology and cyber security sector.
• Educate the local community of businesses and individuals around cyber
security.
• Work with public sector bodies, including academia, to ensure that the
pertinent information is captured and distributed to local organisations

11. Greater
Manchester
Cheshire
Liverpool
City Region
Lancashire /
Cumbria
NWCSC
• Quarterly Cluster Wide
meetings - rotating
• Regional local meetings
• Monthly or
• Quarterly
Encourage more localised
meetings and enable
flexible running

12. Cyber Security at LJMU
Bob Askwith
Liverpool John Moores University

13. NWCSC Launch Meeting 24.3.2022
Cyber Security @ Liverpool JMU
Dr Bob Askwith
Subject Head (Security/Forensics)
School of Computer Science and Mathematics
Liverpool John Moores University
R.J.Askwith@ljmu.ac.uk

15. School of Computer Science @ LJMU
The School of Computer Science & Mathematics is one of three
schools in the Faculty of Engineering and Technology
• 60+ academic staff, incl. 11 in the Security group
• Approximately 1200 students, incl. 170+ studying Security
• Over 60 PhD students
• We are a highly research active School
• Several dedicated computing labs
• Computer Forensics & Security lab
• Isolated from Internet
• Private Cloud service for building security experiments

16. Undergraduate BSc Programmes
• Computer Science
• Computing
• Software Engineering
• Mathematics
• Mathematics with Finance
• Computer Games
Development
• Computing Forensics
• Computer Security
• Approx. 150 students
across all years (inc.
foundation year and
placement)
• Delivered since 2010-11

17. BSc Computer Security
Year 1
Intro to Programming
Computer Systems
Intro Security/Forensics
Web Dev. & Internet
Problem Solving for Security
Professional Practice
Year 2
Database Systems
Operating Systems
Info. Security Management
Secure Software Dev.
Pen Testing
Group Project
Year 3
Ethical Hacking
Network Defence
Network Forensics
Applied Cryptography
Dissertation Project

18. Curriculum Approach
• We are a School of Computer Science!
• Our Computing programmes are all Computer Science programmes
• Core base of general computer science (programming, databases, networks)
• Specialism in cyber security
• Moves from more general (33% in Year 1) to more focused (100% in Year 3)
• Scientific approach, Engineering ethos, Technology emphasis
• Evolve in step with widely known Cyber Security curricula
• Cyber Security Body of Knowledge (CyBOK) https://www.cybok.org/
• National Cyber Security Centre certified degree scheme
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/ncsc-certified-degrees
(We have not sought NCSC accreditation. We do have BCS.)

19. Placement or ‘Sandwich’ Year
• 4-year sandwich undergraduate BSc (Hons)
• Year-long industry placement
• Preparation during Year 1 and 2:
• Year 1: Professional Practice (career and personal development)
• Year 2: Group Project (teamwork, research, planning)
• Individual support from personal tutors
• Employability support
• Placements are paid positions (exceptions for charitable orgs)
• There is a well-established network of 600+ employers

20. Industry contacts

21. Student Engagement
Barclays Technology Challenge
ROQ Software Challenge
Champions: LJMU

22. Postgraduate Study @ LJMU
• MSc Cyber Security
• Aimed at STEM graduates but primarily Computer Science
• Structure
• Semester 1: Computer Security, Information Security Management, Research Methods
• Semester 2: Ethical Hacking, Secure Systems, Cryptography
• Semester 3: Research Dissertation
• Currently 21 enrolled
• Delivered since 2015-16
• As with UG, we have ‘aligned’ with NCSC subject criteria
• PhD by research
• Cyber Security
• AI / Data Science / Machine Learning
• …

23. Summary
• LJMU has a team of 11 academics delivering Cyber Security teaching
and research, within a school of 60+ academics in C.Sci & Math
• LJMU supports the development NW talent pool of computer
science and Cyber Security
• 150 undergraduates in security & 20+ MSc
• Over 1000 undergraduates in computing subjects
• LJMU supports with regional business
• Placements opportunities for undergraduates
• Networking and alumni opportunities
• Research and knowledge transfer

24. Thank you

25. Q&A

26. How does the Digital Tech
Cluster help tech start-ups and
scale-ups?
James Bedford
Digital Tech Cluster (Sci-Tech Daresbury)

27. Digital Tech Cluster at Sci-
Tech Daresbury

28. How does the
Digital Tech Cluster
help tech start-ups
and scale-ups?

29. Digital Tech Cluster Overview
Environment for growth
• Business support to help tech entrepreneurs grow their business
• Advanced digital training for staff provided by the Hartree Centre
• Collaboration programme for tech start-ups and scale-ups to coordinate partnerships
with the wider non-tech economy
• Spin-out support
• Halton Digital Bootcamp Programme
• Investor Network
Community
• Peer-to-peer learning
• Newsletter and website with member directory

30. Digital Tech Companies
• The cluster is designed to support start-up and scale-up digital tech companies
• Software not hardware
• Product not services
• Fast-growing and scaleable
• Innovative
• This is the focus, not criteria for entry
• Cyber-security SMEs are very welcome

31. Envt for Growth - Business Support
• Supporting the leaders of digital tech companies to grow rapidly
• Coordinated with other business support
• Online means wider audience, part of marketing Daresbury
• Wide package of support including workshops and content:
• Investment-readiness workshops
• Intellectual property
• Finance and metrics
• Accessing international markets
2 workshops and 2 meetups already this year with 20-25 more planned.

32. Envt for Growth – Digital Training
• Delivered through the Hartree Centre, National Centre for Digital Innovation
• Cutting edge training for tech teams
• Support for tech staff of digital tech companies, helps with upskilling and retention

33. Envt for Growth - Collaboration Programme
• Why?
• Solving problems for tech companies
• Solving problems for wider economy
• How will it operate?
• Digital transformation – corporate accelerators
• Find problems, understand tech and cultural barriers
• Identify solutions and facilitate iterations and ongoing support
• Link with Daresbury assets and expertise e.g Hartree
• Outcomes
• New customers and new innovations
• New jobs, GVA and sustainable future

34. Community
• CTO Meetups
• Peer-to-peer learning
• 8 times a year
• Hartree link
• Membership
• Make cluster more official
• Benefits package
• Newsletter and website
• Opportunity to sign-post
• Membership directory
• Share activity of the cluster

35. How can cyber-security SMEs get involved?
• Lots of online workshops you may be interested in as you grow
• Written content around cyber-security, can you be involved?
• CTO Meetups may be of interest to CTOs in cyber-security
• CTO Meetup focussed on cyber-security
• Best way to connect is via the newsletter
• Via Twitter (see pinned tweet) @jamesbedford140
• James.Bedford@stfc.ac.uk

36. Q&A

37. Cyber Security and Space
Alan Cross
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

38. ESA UNCLASSIFIED
→ Cybersecurity and Space
Alan Cross
ESA Business Applications Ambassador

39. ESA UNCLASSIFIED
Global Navigation
Satellite Systems (GNSS)
Satellite Communication Satellite Imagery
(aka Earth Observation/Remote Sensing )
Space Weather Microgravity & the Space
Environment

40. ESA UNCLASSIFIED
Global Navigation Satellite
Systems (GNSS)
• Navigation & route optimisation
• Worldwide geolocation and
timestamping
• Integrity marker for blockchain
• Master clock synchronisation
Satellites
101
• Sometimes (inaccurately) called ‘GPS’, or ‘SatNav’
• Global coverage: GPS (USA), GLONASS (Russia), BeiDou (China), Galileo (EU)
• Regional coverage: NavIC (India), QZSS (Japan), plus multiple ‘SBAS’
• Atomic clocks sending ultra-precise timing signals
• Multiple satellites across multiple constellations
• GNSS devices calculate their position based on minimum 4 signals
Applications:

41. ESA UNCLASSIFIED
• Global access to data & services
• Back-up for terrestrial communications
• Improved security and integrity
• High-speed, low latency internet for remote areas
• Dedicated IoT solutions
Satellites
101
Satellite Communications
(SatComms)
Applications:

42. ESA UNCLASSIFIED

43. ESA UNCLASSIFIED
• Monitoring of land & marine parameters
• Infrastructure/asset monitoring (>30cm resolution)
• Change detection over time
• Real-time weather & climate mapping
Satellites
101
Earth Observation (EO)
Applications:
Passive:
• Panchromatic – Hi-res, broad spectra, optical & near-IR
• Multi-spectral – lo-res, narrow spectra, IR, UV, microwave
• Pan-sharpened – combines spectral res & spatial res
• Hyper-spectral – continuous spectra (not multiple narrow bands)
• Microwave Radiometry – atmospheric water vapour
Active:
• Synthetic Aperture Radar
• Ship detection, oil spills, infrastructure
monitoring, etc
• Radar Altimetry
• Millimetric surface topography
• Lidar
• Monitoring glacial loss, winds,
atmospheric aerosols, etc

44. ESA UNCLASSIFIED
Global Navigation
Satellite Systems (GNSS)
Satellite Communication Satellite Imagery
(aka Earth Observation/Remote Sensing )
• Positioning (cm
accuracy)
• Timing (nanosecond
accuracy)
• Navigation
• Reflectometry useful for
wide swath altimetry,
seawater salinity, ice-
layer density
• Ubiquitous connectivity
• ‘Bent pipes’ + mesh
networks
• High bandwidth options
• Low bandwidth/power
IoT
• Low latency (LEO +
MEO)
• ‘Eyes on’, anywhere on
Earth
• >30cm spatial resolution
• Multiple spectra +
techniques
• Passive (‘seeing’)
• Active (‘texture’ +
topography)
• Change detection over
time
Satellites (In A
Nutshell)

45. ESA UNCLASSIFIED
→ ESA Business Applications
Case Studies

46. ESA UNCLASSIFIED
• Global shipping is vulnerable to GNSS &
AIS spoofing/jamming, both on board & on
shore, impacting tracking & analysis
• Legacy ships with internet access often
weakest link in security chain
• End-to-end security for shipping industry,
taking into account satellite links, securely
collecting data on board & transmitting
safely to shore for storage & analysis
ARCAmarine

47. ESA UNCLASSIFIED
• A CyberSec Test Range, Grottaglie Airport
• Defence against hardware attacks, wireless
attacks, and spoofing
• Satcom – Beyond line of sight, UAS
command & control, payload coms
• GNSS – asset location, masterclock sync
• EO – mission sim & prep, countermeasure
techniques to assess GNSS performance
CRUISE

48. ESA UNCLASSIFIED
• Satellite based Quantum Key Distribution
(telecoms, FinTech, Oil & Gas, SecDef,
diplomatic services)
• Using CubeSats to deliver cryptographic
keys & related services at a fraction of
traditional cost
• Bypasses loss experienced in ground
based optical networks, for beyond line of
sight, scalable, ubiquitous QKD
distribution
A-QKD-S

49. ESA UNCLASSIFIED
→ ESA Business Applications
An Introduction

50. ESA UNCLASSIFIED
The largest space innovation network in the
world
• The go-to place for great business
involving space to improve everyday life.
• Supporting European start-ups and SMEs
to develop businesses using space
technology and data.
• Offering funding, business and technical
support to help to generate successful
business and create jobs.
→ ESA SPACE SOLUTIONS

51. What ESA Business
Applications Offers

52. ESA UNCLASSIFIED
• Innovative services & Products that:
• Start from market demand – not
technology push
• Are focused on Business / Service
deployment, not technology R&D
• Foster utilisation of existing space
capabilities
• Avoid research and new technology
developments
• Work in close partnership with
users/customers
• Develop integrated and sustainable
services
What ESA Business Applications looks
for...
DESIRED by Customers
VIABLE & SUSTAINABLE
Service or Product
FEASIBLE Technology -
Adding value from Space

53. ESA UNCLASSIFIED
• Open call –Feasibility Studies or Demonstration projects, €60k - €2m+, 50% funded, zero equity funding
• Space for Tourism – FS or DP, 50% funded, closes 31/03/2022
• NHS Future Hospitals – DP, 50% funded, closes 30/09/2022
• Space4Rail – FS or DP, 50% funded, closes 31/12/2024
• Space Systems for Safety & Security - FS or DP, 50% funded, closes 31/12/2025
• Digital Supply Chain – FS or DP, 50% funded, closes 21/05/2022
• Space Applications Supporting Digital Transformation in Public Safety – DP, 50% funded, closes
01/11/2022
• Digital Transformation & the Green Economy – FS or DP, 50% funded, closes 31/10/2022
• Space & Digital Transformation for Green Energy Utilities – FS or DP, 50% funded, closes 10/06/2022
• Commercial Applications Enabled by Space Environments (CASE) - FS or DP, 50% funded, closes
~2025
Current opportunities with
ESA Business Applications

54. ESA UNCLASSIFIED ESA | 01/01/2016 | Slide 62
• Use the Ambassador Network - don’t
jump in!
• Each application is reviewed on a case
by case basis
• Be clear on your innovation
• Engage with your customers
• Understand the Management
Information for Projects
• Review your competitor analysis
• Understand your risks
• Think about the RoI for UK PLC
SUBMISSION GUIDANCE

55. Prepare, engage, review
• Talk to your Regional Ambassador
• Register your company on EMITS
• Review the Business Model Canvas
• Refine your idea
• Explore ‘gaps’ in your knowledge
• Read the guidance notes
• Watch the presentation
• Review existing ESA Projects
• Attend an APQ Surgery or workshop
• Ask all the questions…
Thinking of applying?

56. ESA UNCLASSIFIED ESA | 01/01/2016 | Slide 64
• Tens of thousands of orbital cyber
physical systems
• Communications Satellites
• Earth Observation Satellites
• Orbital Solar Farms
• Manufacturing facilities
• Cyber physical systems beyond Earth
• Moon
• Mars
• Asteroids
• Inner system
• Outer system
• Hundreds (or thousands) of Humans in
Space
• A civilization dependent on Space for
connectivity, energy, and transit
The Future Is Coming

57. BUSINESS
APPLICATIONS
BUSINESS
INCUBATION
TECHNOLOGY
TRANSFER
alan.cross@stfc.ac.uk
www.business.esa.int
@Space4Europe
@ESABA_NW
Thank you

58. Q&A

59. Next Meeting
• Next Meeting – Thursday 28th April 2022 | Manchester
• The Cyber Security Cluster in Manchester
• Booking details will be out soon.
• Looking for members and organisations to present - Get in
touch

60. For more information…