Alongside the countless conveniences offered by the modern digital ecosystem are a variety of risks posed by cyberattack. As governments, businesses, and individuals undergo digital transformations, SnT’s CryptoLux Research Group—headed by Prof. Alex Biryukov—is focused on protecting information both in storage and in transit. To do this the team has been working to design novel methods of cryptography that will help reduce the vulnerability of individuals and organisations around the world, most recently by breaking state of the art approaches that were proposed by the leading experts in the field and that were thought to be secure.

Until the 2000s, building any software had been a two-step process: developing the code (software development), followed by deployment and configuration (IT operations). These processes used to be managed by separate teams, with different priorities and KPIs.