CyberSight25 - Problem 9 - Simon Grant

What is CIH? Introducing Cyber Innovation Hub – a game changer in spinning science into cyber solutions… Cyber Innovation Hub is spun out of Cardiff University’s Centre for Cyber Security Research (CCSR). CCSR has been operating for a decade and takes a challenge-focussed approach to applied cyber research, having developed strong industry partnerships and seen research translated into commercial processes. To date, spin out companies from this research have been limited. Largely due to a lack of capacity in the academic team to explore markets and develop commercial cases – but equally due to a lack of commercial and business skills within the team to actually take a commercial venture to market. How is Cyber Innovation Hub solving the cyber problems of today and tomorrow? CIH is solving this blocker by match-making the academic solution creators with entrepreneurs in the Alacrity Foundation’s incubation programme. Alacrity hire business leads and train them in an intensive 12 month programme. The entrepreneurs on the programme are business-focussed, and learn how to identify commercial opportunities, understand customer needs, develop business plans, and take a solution to market. The CIH programme will wrap a team on the Alacrity programme around academic solution creators, and provide them with support and services to scale quickly. We believe this is a globally unique programme – pulling cutting edge scientific intellectual property into commercial ventures to solve the World’s most pressing cyber security problems. Tools offer varied levels of controls and visibility, for data security, could there be a solution developed that will consolidate and reduce business risk against data breach. Timestamps 00:00 - 03:11 - Introduction 03:12 - 04:53 - What is the Challenge? 04:54 - 12:09 - What are the risks of not impacting this challenge? 12:10 - 15:37 - Are there individuals who would be impacted if not overcome? 15:11 - 19:47 - What attempts of solving this challenge? 19:48 - 25:00 - What would good look like? 25:01 - 26:11 - How would you see the CIH involvement in solving this challenge? 26:12 - 29:12 - How would you measure success? 29:13 - End - Any other business?