This page shows a selection of recent technical reports co-authored or contributed by members of the Institute. Such technical reports were mostly produced for non-academic organisations especially policy makers.
- Jamie MacColl, Pia Hüsch, Gareth Mott, James Sullivan, Jason R. C. Nurse, Sarah Turner and Nandita Pattnaik, “Ransomware: Victim Insights on Harms to Individuals, Organisations and Society,” 67 pages, January 2024, Occasional Paper, jointly with RUSI (Royal United Services Institute)
- Jamie MacColl, James Sullivan, Jason R. C. Nurse, Gareth Mott, Sarah Turner, Edward Cartwright and Anna Cartwright, “Cyber Insurance and the Ransomware Challenge,” 84 pages, July 2023, a technical report for NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ) and RISCS (Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security), jointly with RUSI (Royal United Services Institute), De Montfort University and Oxford Brookes University
- Gareth Mott, Sarah Turner and Jason Nurse, written evidence for the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) inquiry into ransomware, 4 pages, January 2023
- Madeline Carr, Alicia Cork, Ola Michalec, Steven Murdoch, Jason Nurse, Awais Rashid, Yvonne Rigby, Daniel Woods, the REPHRAIN centre’s response to the Home Office consultation call on Unauthorised access to online accounts and personal data, 11 pages, October 2022
- Sarah Turner and Jason Nurse, written evidence for the UK Parliament’s DCMS (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) Committee inquiry “Connected tech: smart or sinister?“, 6 pages, July 2022
- Krysia Emily Waldock, Shujun Li and Virginia N.L. Franqueira (survey co-designers and co-analysts), “Cyber Security in UK Schools Report 2022: How well protected are schools and colleges in England and Wales?” 21 pages, April 2022, commissioned work for SWGfL, a technical report sponsored by Bitdefender
- Haiyue Yuan and Shujun Li, “Cyber Security Risks of Net Zero Technologies,” 28 pages, April 2022, a technical report for DCMS (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport), UK Government
- Krysia Emily Waldock, Vince Miller, Shujun Li and Virginia N.L. Franqueira, “Pre-University Cyber Security Education: A report on developing cyber skills amongst children and young people,” 159 pages, February 2022, a technical report for GFCE (Global Forum on Cyber Expertise), funded by Global Affairs Canada
- Harmonie Toros, “UK Counter Terrorism Narratives: An Analysis of the Action Counter Terrorism Campaign 2017-2020,” 19 pages, February 2022, a technical report for GCHQ as part of a funded fellowship
- Jason R.C. Nurse, Konstantinos Adamos, Athanasios Grammatopoulos and Fabio Di Franco, “Addressing Skills Shortage and Gap Through Higher Education,” 73 pages, December 2021, a technical report for ENISA (European Union Agency for Cybersecurity)
- Diarmid Campbell-Jack, Helen Bickley and Johnny Lillis, “Cyber Discovery Evaluation,” 76 pages, July 2021, a technical report for DCMS (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport), UK Government, with Ecorys UK
- Jason R.C. Nurse and Budi Arief of iCSS contributed to this report as part of contracted work.
- Jamie MacColl, Jason R.C. Nurse and James Sullivan, “Cyber Insurance and the Cyber Security Challenge,” 68 pages, June 2021, a technical report for NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ), jointly with RUSI (Royal United Services Institute)
- Afroditi Pina, Jennifer Storey, Marian Duggan and Virginia Franqueira, “Technology-Facilitated Intimate Partner Violence: A multidisciplinary examination of prevalence, methods used by perpetrators and the impact of COVID-19,” 159 pages, May 2021, a technical report for Home Office, UK Government
- Lisa Sugiura, Dean Blackbourn, Mark Button, Chloe Hawkins, Jacki Tapley, Brian Frederick, Jason R.C. Nurse and Rahime Belen Sağlam, “Computer Misuse as a Facilitator of Domestic Abuse,” 127 pages, May 2021, a technical report for Home Office, UK Government
- Harry Williams, James Kearney, Gabriele Zatterin, Sam Donaldson, David Crozier and Jason Nurse, “Understanding the Cyber Security Recruitment Pool,” 73 pages, March 2021, a technical report for DCMS (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport), UK Government
- James Stannard, Rebecca Writer-Davies, Dylan Spielman and Jason R.C. Nurse, “Consumer Attitudes Towards IoT Security,” 33 pages, December 2020, a technical report for Cabinet Office, jointly with Ipsos MORI