Details of Grant 

EPSRC Reference:	EP/X040038/1
Title:	Generalised Context Privacy
Principal Investigator:	Bradbury, Dr M S
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Project Partners:	Templar Executives Ltd. (UK) Vital Growth Ltd
Department:	Computing & Communications
Organisation:	Lancaster University
Scheme:	New Investigator Award
Starts:	01 January 2024	Ends:	31 December 2026	Value (£):	387,468
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Fundamentals of Computing Information & Knowledge Mgmt Mobile Computing
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Information Technologies
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Panel History:	Panel Date Panel Name Outcome 24 Apr 2023 EPSRC ICT Prioritisation Panel April 2023 Announced
Summary on Grant Application Form
New cyber physical systems and new ways of using existing systems are increasingly being introduced, this include retrofitting physical systems with cyber capabilities. A risk is that new threats are introduced to these systems, including by revealing sensitive information to an adversary making observations on the system and the context in which the system takes actions. Many domains have independently had context privacy preserving techniques developed for these threats (e.g., onion routing, change in identity). However, developing context privacy preserving techniques is a lengthy process and does not allow for rapid responses to novel context privacy threats. This poses a danger to users of systems which operate without suitable context privacy controls and potentially leads to sensitive operational information being revealed. In this project, instead of developing techniques as novel context privacy threats are identified, a suite of context privacy controls will be developed for an arbitrary system, their efficacy will be demonstrated via suitable quantification, and then using example systems, domain-specific translators will be developed such that the general context privacy techniques can applied to real-world systems. By having these foundations available, when novel context privacy threats are identified, only domain-specific translators need to be developed. This allows for faster and more agile responses to future novel context privacy threats, thus minimising information conveyed by system actions to an adversary - protecting both the system and its users.
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