School of Computing Science

The University of Glasgow has a broad and internationally recognised cybersecurity research portfolio, delivering high-impact research, influential publications, standards contributions, and practical outcomes across modern digital systems. A particular strength is IoT security, spanning hardware, data, and network security, assurance, certification, and international standardisation. Glasgow researchers contribute to major collaborative projects and the development of secure next-generation connected environments.

Research in digital resilience focuses on protecting critical and industrial infrastructure through continuous monitoring, adaptive resource management, anomaly detection, and intrusion detection. This includes resilient approaches for virtualised, software-defined, industrial, and resource-constrained IoT networks. AI and cybersecurity is another major theme. Machine learning supports intrusion detection, anomaly detection, and automated threat analysis, while complementary research addresses the security, privacy, robustness, and trustworthiness of AI through privacy-preserving learning, secure federated learning, and adversarial robustness.

Further strengths include secure hardware, cryptography, blockchain and decentralised trust, secure multiparty computation, privacy-enhancing technologies, post-quantum cryptography, and formal verification. Research into secure execution and memory safety includes CHERI-based techniques for preventing low-level vulnerabilities and runtime exploits. Glasgow also conducts leading research in trusted execution environments, behavioural biometrics, digital twins, distributed systems, and data protection. Alongside these technical strengths, human-centred cybersecurity explores how people interact with security and privacy technologies across mobile devices, public displays, virtual and augmented environments, and other ubiquitous systems.