In September 2025, a group of researchers at the University of Bristol and Imperial College London (including RISCS Advisory Board members Simon Shiu and Ola Michalec) published a flagship report: ‘The UK Cyber Growth Action Plan’. The work contains 9 high-level recommendations and 24
Read More Tracking Cyber Growth: What Should We Measure, and Why? – Ola Michalec
Attending the 2025 European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC) in Manchester on September 10th and 11th was an incredible and memorable experience. As one of the key conferences in the Usable Security and Privacy community, EuroUSEC 2025 brought together researchers,
Read More Report on EuroUSEC 2025, Manchester – Christina Katsini
On 23–24 September 2025, RISCS Alumni Fellows Dr Rebecca Owens and Dr Partha Das Chowdhury convened an international workshop, ‘Cybersecurity: A Matter of Law or a Matter of Justice?’ at Durham Law School. Over two days, early-career researchers, senior academics,
Cyber intrusion capabilities—such as those used by penetration testers—are essential to enhancing our collective cyber security. However, there are various actors who build and use these capabilities to degrade and harm the digital security of human rights activists, journalists, and
Lucy Davies, the summer 2025 RISCS doctoral intern, has drawn upon the expertise of the wider RISCS community to put together a critical response to the BBC Panorama documentary Fighting Cyber Criminals. In this blog, Lucy explores the impact of
Read More Responding to BBC Panorama’s ‘Fighting Cyber Criminals’ – Lucy Davies
On 11th April 2025, the inaugural Cybernetic Culture Workshop: Consumption, Security and Society in the Digital Age convened over 40 participants from academia, government, and industry. Hosted at Lancaster University by the Centre for Consumption Insights (CCI) and funded by
Read More Reflections on the Inaugural Cybernetic Culture Workshop 2025 – Sophie James
Recently, I had the pleasure of attending a webinar provided by Resilience Beyond Observed Capabilities (RBOC) Network + as part of my internship with RISCS. Presented by established sci-fi writers Allen Stroud and Emma Newman, the webinar explored ways in
Read More How to Imagine a Future Society in Crisis – Emma Fowler
Every individual should be able to securely participate in a digital first society; there are no ‘wrong kind of leaves’. While usable security has contributed significantly to bring humans to the centre of systems design, quantitative evaluation of preferences cannot
Predicting future security challenges is hard. It involves anticipation and imagination. How will emerging technologies be used by entrepreneurs and businesses to change systems and infrastructures? And conversely, how will adversaries exploit the new opportunities and attack surfaces. It is
Read More Anticipating security trends – an exercise in creative writing – Simon Shiu
As the American Museum in Bath welcomed over thirty delegates from across the UK, the surroundings made an apt fit for an exploration of cyber power: stately yet quiet gardens and sombre statues of the US founding fathers. The décor
Read More Cyber Statecraft in an Era of Systemic Competition – Kester Brookland
