Bournemouth University (BU) and Mima, a human-centred design consultancy, have secured funding from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to collaborate on a Secure by Design (SbD) project. Dstl, the science and technology arm of the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), provides critical expertise and solutions for national security.
The project, led by Dr Duncan Ki-Aries and Prof Huseyin Dogan, along with Dr Eylem Thron from Mima centred on developing and evaluating a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to demonstrate how safety, security, and human factors analysis can be integrated into SbD requirements practices.
This integration aims to enhance the design of secure, resilient, and user-aware systems for defence applications. The aim for the MVP would be to support Requirements Managers and other Secure by Design stakeholders with the ongoing identification and articulation of risk, resulting both from security requirements and their supporting security, safety, and human factors analysis.
The BU and Mima team bring expertise in Human Factors, Security, Systems of Systems Engineering, Safety and Risk Assessment, and are dedicated to supporting future defence capabilities through this Secure by Design collaboration.
Contacts: Duncan Ki-Aries, Huseyin Dogan, and Eylem Thron
Funders: Dstl
Collaborators: Dstl, Bournemouth University, and Mima