About

UWEcyber is a collective of academics at the University of the West of England (Bristol, UK) with a passion for cyber security. UWEcyber are active in teaching, research, outreach, and external industry engagement. We collaborate and share with the community, and we strive to improve cyber security for our region and beyond. We are recognised by the National Cyber Security Centre as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE).

Workshops

Our CyberWEST workshops took place early 2024 at the following locations:

  • Wednesday 17th January 2024 – University of the West of England
  • Friday 2nd February 2024 – University of Bristol
  • Tuesday 6th February 2024 – University of Plymouth
  • Friday 23rd February 2024 – University of Exeter
For more details and for the CyberWEST repository, please visit here.

Previous Workshops:

Resources

The CyberWEST Repository is where you can find the full set of resources that we have collated, from both the CyberWEST project and from previous outreach and engagement events.

Cyber Funfair

Teaching CyBOK Through Cyber Physical Systems (2023)
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Goibhniu

Container-based Cyber Range (2023)
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UWEcyber PiLab

A portable Raspberry Pi lab for teaching (2022)
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Cyber Scalextric

Cyber physical security of a racetrack scoreboard (2020)
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IoT HomeLab

Hacking home IoT via an interactive CTF (2020)
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Cyber Physical Systems Security

Using Factory IO to teach Industrial Control Systems Security (2020)
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SpheroLab

Python programming and security of Sphero robots (2019)
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Seminars

UWEcyber Guest Speaker Seminar Series 2023-24
  • Monday 2nd October 2023 - "Cyber Path - Police & Academia Talent Horizons" Mark Moore, South West Cyber Resilience Centre
  • Monday 9th October 2023 - "Security by Design" Gareth Jones, Methods and Tony Dawson, CoreAzure
  • Monday 16th October 2023 - "Cyber Skills For Life - An Interactive Session on Getting Into Cyber and a Chance To Test Your Crisis Decision Making" James Riley, ImmersiveLabs
  • Monday 23rd October 2023 - "14 years on since graduating from Forensic Computing at UWE" Scott Eggins, Hargreaves Lansdown
  • Monday 30th October 2023 - A Cyber Security PhD Showcase - "What is it like to do a PhD at UWE?" Carol Lo, James Barrett, Sadegh Bamohabbat, Dalila Khettaf and Aimen Djemaa
  • Monday 6th November 2023 - "Let's sort this out on the Range" Fred Stinchcombe, Lecturer in Computer Science/MSc Cyber Program Coordinator, Rowan University, New Jersey, USA
  • Monday 13th November 2023 - "Leveraging AI for Cyber Security" Zeba Khanam, Research Scientist, BT Security Research Group
  • Monday 20th November 2023 - "Hardware security: building technology on sandy foundations and copper wire" Amy Brooks, Portfolio Cyber Security Consultant and Advisor
  • Monday 27th November 2023 - "Exploring cyberspace: when one academic discipline is simply not enough" Dr Aida Abzhaparova, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security and Global Politics, UWE
  • Monday 4th December 2023 - "Dinosaur Codes and AI Bones: Unleashing Your Intellect in Cyber for Career Success" Alsa Tibbit, Associate Lecturer/Advisor, Sheffield Hallam University
  • Monday 29th January 2024 - "The role of a Cyber security start-up in a Cyber Security ecosystem" Jack Marley, P3M Works
  • Monday 19th February 2024 - "Tales from the frontline of Reactive Digital Forensics and Incident Response" Charlie Watson, Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks)
  • Monday 26th February 2024 - "Finding an entry point: From Industry Breakthrough to Infiltrating High-Security Facilities" Ryan Pullen, Stripe OLT
  • Monday 4th March 2024 - "Phishing, patching, poo: A year in the challenging Water Sector" Steve Treharne, Group Director of Information Security, YTL Wessex Water
  • Monday 11th March 2024 - "Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime from a US Federal Law perspective" Craig Porter, OpenText
  • Monday 18th March 2024 - "Behind an incident" Lisa Forte, Red Goat Cyber Security
  • Monday 25th March 2024 - "Cyber Security Considerations When Designing a Submarine" BMT Defence and Security UK and the Ministry of Defence Submarine Delivery Agency
  • Monday 15th April 2024 - "Cybersecurity: in everyday life and SMEs" Kevin Rice, Kevs IT

Previous UWEcyber Talks and Events

Videos
A variety of activities are captured for sharing with our students and our wider community, including guest seminars, online tutorials, and promotional activities of our live events. To find out more, visit our YouTube channel or check out some of our highlights below.

Photos

People

Twitter