Bournemouth University has been awarded nearly £2.3 million by the Office for Students to develop a new Cyber Competence Centre that will address regional and national cyber skills gaps.
As well as upgrading the university’s existing facilities, the investment will be used to launch a new, AI-powered, Security Operations Centre of the Future for students to learn how to detect and respond to realistic cyber threats. “There is a well-documented shortage of digital and cyber skills in the UK and we are seeing an increasing number of high-profile cyber-attacks on businesses such as those on Marks and Spencer and Co-Op,” said Professor Nan Jiang, Head of BU’s School of Computing and Engineering.
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Source: Bournemouth University
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