New Deal funding adds to EPSRC and Innovate UK support, creating Cyber-Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hub, doctoral training programme and masters bursaries.
Northern Ireland (NI) Office Minister of State Steve Baker has announced £18.9 million investment in NI’s cyber security industry at Queen’s University Belfast’s (QUB) Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT). This includes £11 million funding from the New Deal for NI.
The investment will see the creation of a new Cyber-AI Hub at CSIT. It will bring together academia and businesses to increase NI’s cyber capacity, creating jobs and supporting the government’s £2.6 billion national cyber strategy.
The funding will help ensure a pipeline of world-class cyber professionals, with the creation of a doctoral training programme and masters bursaries. This will help to deliver on the government’s pledge of 5000 cyber professionals in NI by 2030.
