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EADS Foundation Wales funds research into cyber attack ‘hotspots’
September 2013 by Marc Jacob
At DSEI this week EADS and a Cardiff-based SME announce the start of a new research project to identify the world’s most volatile cyber attack ‘hotspots’. EADS Foundation Wales are providing a £50,000 grant for this project.
Westgate Cyber Security, which advises private and public sector organisations on information security and provides awareness training, hopes the six-month project could lay the groundwork for a world index of countries most at risk from fast-growing cyber crime.
Such an index could prove invaluable to British, including Welsh-based companies specialising in sophisticated security systems to protect IT networks, as a means of market-testing and research.
EADS Foundation Wales is a not-for-profit company set up in 2011 by the Welsh Government, EADS, a world leader in aerospace, defence and space sectors, and Cardiff University. It aims to invigorate the level of research and technology investment and encourage collaboration between government, industry and academia.
SMEs and higher education bodies apply to the Foundation for funding and grants for innovative research.
