A new competition has been launched by DASA to help quantify and reduce cyber risk across defence and enhance digital resilience.
The £880,000 Themed Competition is being funded by the Cyber Resilience Programme (CRP) in Defence Digital, a part of Strategic Command.
The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is seeking up to five proposals to help deal with cyber attacks, which are becoming more sophisticated, with potentially more impact on military operations.
The proposals will help to quantify and reduce the cyber risk across Defence, enhancing digital resilience and enabling Defence to be secure by default.
With the escalating threat from Russia and other state threats, the risk of cyber attack is amongst the highest that is managed by the Defence Board and it requires a collective response to address it.
Becoming cyber resilient is the first challenging milestone. Remaining resilient will require constant appraisal of our adversaries and ourselves. We are not alone in developing and exploiting technologies and will need to work together across industry, Government, Allies and Partners to maximise our collective capabilities.
The Cyber Resilience Programme seeks to address the need to build a cyber resilient Defence, in accordance with the Cyber Resilience Strategy for Defence, and comprises four themes:
- Awareness, Behaviour and Culture
- Resilient by Design
- Secure Digital Foundations
- Cyber Vulnerability Fixes
This competition is part of a broader suite of activity undertaken by the Cyber Resilience Programme that engages industry, academia, partners and allies, to build military capabilities with inherent resilience.
This competition seeks:
- novel tools that strengthen digital resilience across defence
- novel approaches that enable security by default
- novel ways to quantify Operational Technology risk
This competition is interested in support innovation projects that will deliver outputs at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 – technology model or prototype demonstration in a relevant environment.
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