Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme (CyberASAP) announces the new cohort for Year 5 (2021/22)

Now in its fifth year, CyberASAP has just announced the academic projects and teams who have successfully applied to participate in this year’s programme.

Reflecting a broad spectrum of cyber security applications – and including, for the first time, teams from the Petras programme for IoT cybersecurity – this year’s starting cohort of 24 teams will use the programme to advance the commercialisation of their innovations.

CyberASAP was started in 2017 in response to the need to help accelerate the journey from lab to market for promising cyber security ideas coming out of academia. Since the programme started its alumni has raised over £7m in further funding to develop their ideas, and 17 companies have been formed.

Commenting on the start of Year 5, KTN’s co-directors of the programme, Emma Fadlon and Robin Kennedy said:

“It is such a rewarding experience seeing ideas flourish when provided with the right framework for development. Through the course of the programme, we offer our cohorts a range of different interventions and work with our extraordinary network of innovation mentors – including specialists in IP, New Product Development, Sales, Communications and early stage investment – to provide new skills and insights to our teams”.

The teams and projects for CyberASAP 2021/22 are:

Synthetic Cryptocurrency Fraud Simulator – Aston UniversitySystem of Automatic and Configurable web cRawlEr Detection (SACRED) – De Montfort UniversityCyberGames: Gaming Cybersecurity Intelligent Agents – De Montfort UniversityCyberSignature: Online Authentication using User Behaviour Profiling – Edge Hill UniversityThe Royal-Imperial Black Box: A low cost and novel approach for enhanced power system cyber-security featuring moving target defence – Imperial College London & Royal HollowayAdvMLTester: A Security Evaluation Tool for Machine Learning Systems – Middlesex UniversityTensorcrypt: Democratising Encrypted Data Analytics – Royal Holloway Univ of LondonHackEscape – Teesside UniversitySecure-IoMT4Health: An AI-enabled Smartphone application to detect, predict, alert and protect cyber-attack to healthcare IoTs – Teesside UniversityForbidden Pi: TPM 2.0 Secure Computing Extension – The University of West LondonTiming Anomalies as an Indicator of Mal-Intervention in Automation Systems (TAIMAS) – University College LondonImproving Security with Techno-Human Vulnerability Analysis (THuVA) – University College LondonAn Intelligence Cyber Security Incident Handling (i-CSIH) – University of East LondonNetwork Attachment Inspection (NetAI) – University of EssexCloudIntell: An Intelligent Tool for Malware Identification & Prevention in Heterogeneous Enterprise Networks – University of GloucestershireOSIRT – A rigorous and transparent OSINT collection platform – University of Hertfordshire Higher Education CorporationViBS: Voting in Blockchain Systems – University of KentAn AI-based IoT Device for Detecting Phone Scams Before Harm is Done, Aimed at Supporting Older and Vulnerable Adults – University of OxfordPrivextractor: A Privacy Awareness Package to Redress the Imbalance of Understanding Between Users and Vendors of Smart-home Devices – University of SalfordWalletFind: An Automatic Digital Forensic Investigation of Hardware and Software Cryptocurrency Wallets – University of Salford & Manchester Metropolitan UniversityCAUDATA – University of StrathclydeConsumer smart devices security solution – University of WestminsterFedCam: Secure Federation for Visual Sensor (Camera) – University of WolverhamptonTrustMe: Secure and Trustworthy AI platform for FinTech – University of Wolverhampton

The Year 5 programme starts on 1 April 2021 and ends – for those selected for Phase 2 – with a Demo Day in February 2022, where teams showcase the Proofs of Concept they have developed over the course of the programme.

If you are an Academic or University Technology Transfer Officer, Industrialist, investor or have an interest in being involved or supporting the 2021/22 programme in any way, please provide your details here to ensure you’re updated with the relevant information.

CyberASAP is funded by the UK Government Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and delivered by Innovate UK and KTN working in partnership.