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- What are the key determinants of economic security?
- Detecting threat materials of all kinds without disrupting business, through automation and improved operator effectiveness. For example: combining novel technology with big data analytics; systems approaches; behavioural insights.
- Closing the window between becoming aware of a potential technical exploit and action to plug the vulnerability reduces exposure to systems compromise. How can we best apply automation across government’s cyber security practices to ensure that potential exploits are addressed as quickly as possible? What are the risks and opportunities? What are the dependencies on other technology? Are there ethical or considerations in this area?
- How can we define worst case scenarios in a changing world in which international standards are contestable?
- What are the critical emerging technologies on the 5, 10, and 15-year horizon which have the potential to change cyberspace or impact on the UK’s cyber-power and strategic advantage? What novel critical applications of existing technologies could have the potential to transform cyberspace? How should emerging technologies be prioritised for cyber security research?
- What are the most relevant potential changes in the external security and resilience risk environment?
- What does research tell us about the impact of interventions that the Government has put in place to strengthen the UK's capabilities in digital and emerging technologies, and about possible future trajectories?
- How can the UK effectively assess and mitigate semiconductor supply chain vulnerabilities?
- How to address interactions between safety and security?
- Risk posed across sectors by different types of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and other autonomous and unmanned systems, now and in the future.
- What are the direct impacts of the harms of online mis/disinformation and what types of online mis/disinformation are most harmful? How do these impact individuals, wider society and the democratic process (whether physical, psychological health, civil unrest, UK security, elections)?
- How might we most effectively measure readiness for high-impact low-probability risks in the assessment of UK resilience?
- Security in high throughput and heavily populated environments.
- What incentives need to be put in place to ensure that the UK semiconductor industry remains competitive?
- How can the UK use its S&T strengths to protect national security?
- How might we gain evidence-based assurances about the effectiveness of capabilities linked to low-frequency high-impact events through use of experimental methods?
- Which technologies are going to be important for economic and national security over the next 10 years?
- Risks and effectiveness of counter-UAV measures in civilian airspace.
- What does evidence suggest about how the UK could prepare for future trends?
- Preventing criminal, hostile or mischievous use of autonomous and unmanned systems, or attacks of the systems themselves, especially through “security by design”.
- Use of technology by organised criminals, and changes to the threat due to future technologies.
- How can we best stress test the UK’s playbooks for different risks becoming crises in an ongoing way?
- What are the risks to UK interests if the industry led, multi stakeholder nature of the global internet is weakened in favour of greater state- or multilateral control?
- How can the UK retain and expand its strategic advantage in relation to semiconductor IP, design, R&D and compound and advanced materials?
- What cyber interventions that DSIT or NCSC runs are the most effective at reducing cyber incidents and improving cyber resilience? How effective are the NIS Regulations at securing operators of essential services in the UK? How effective is carrying out each of the 10 Steps to Cyber Security at reducing cyber risk?
- Understanding implication of future technology - Our service personnel and systems will be threatened by the availability of a greater number of devices with diverse sensing modalities, weapon systems with longer range, enhanced lethality and an adversary who could deploy them in ways that exploit our vulnerabilities. Our ability to objectively assess threats from technological advances in areas such as cyber, unmanned systems and additive manufacturing, and quantify their consequences is key to our understanding of future risk.
- What does evidence suggest about how the UK could prepare for future trends?
- How do we measure performance / capability development for a risk before it materialises?
- A taxonomy of economic and national security risks with likelihood impact assessments to determine relative severity.
- What are the policy levers available in S&T to support and protect economic and national security How effective are they?
- How to model supply chains using real-time data to ensure effective supply chain security management?