Project Overview
ENCYRCLE is a £2m research initiative by Swansea University with the Wales-based National Digital Exploitation Centre (NDEC), part of global technology leader Thales. Bringing together researchers and industry experts to drive innovation and strengthen the cyber resilience of interconnected systems.
ENCYRCLE focuses on strengthening cyber resilience in transport, manufacturing, and energy infrastructure. As AI and hyper-connectivity drive rapid technological change, ensuring system safety and security has become a critical challenge. ENCYRCLE develops innovative solutions to enhance the security of connected and automated technologies throughout their lifecycle.
Why is Cyber Resilience important?
Industrial challenges have identified:
- Traditional functional safety and automotive cybersecurity fall short to deliver resilience in complex systems.
- Systems engineering challenges for systems that have a dynamic safety case.
How will we achieve Cyber Resilience?
- Through-life system resilience models integrating safety, security, and liveness
- System development lifecycle models, cyber resilience tools, and use cases at Thales
- Modelling language for resilience using SySML profiles applied to chosen case studies
- Demonstration of tool-supported analysis
What is our Impact?
- A dedicated Research Lab featuring specialised tools developed through ENCYRCLE.
- Enduring capacity for resilience modelling and analysis.
- Improve public safety and trust in new technologies, underpinning societal impact.
- Improving feasible resilience leading to economic impact.
- Enhance industrial efficiency and sustainability to reduced environmental footprints.
- High-end skills through research exposure and enhanced curriculum.
