Competition summary: security for the internet of things
Updated 13 October 2015
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1. Summary
This Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) themed competition is on behalf of UK intelligence agencies: The Security Service (MI5), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) (MI6).
The internet of things, as a network of multiple connected sensors, capable of communicating with their environment, creates security challenges. This competition is looking for research proposals to identify innovative technologies or approaches to meet these challenges.
We live in a ‘sensor-rich’ environment. These sensors connect in ad-hoc, local and mesh networks, operate using different protocols and standards, and use encryption to protect communications. Through this competition we want to know:
- how can we pull together and visualise data on subjects of interest from a diverse, sensor-rich, loosely connected environment that operates across different protocols and across standards?
- how can we show how sure we are of a hypothesis that 2 events/users/devices are connected, based on the data gathered?
2. Total funding
Up to £1 million is available for phase 1 of this competition. We expect to fund a number of projects around £60,000 to £90,000 for a duration of around 3 months.
Up to £1 million will be made available for phase 2. Funding will be considered on a per-project basis.
3. Competition close
This competition closes on Thursday 29 October 2015 at 5pm. Proposals must be submitted through the CDE online portal.