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CIM's Matt Spencer has published two new open access papers exploring interdisciplinarity in cyber security.

The first, in the conference proceedings for the New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), explores opportunities to bring a sociological framing to bear on security economics; the second, in Information, Communication and Society introduces a Special Issue focused on 'the fix' as a trope for interdisciplinary cyber security.

The ‘Scaling Trust’ project is a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship examining trust in the cyber security profession. As the initial period of funding comes to an end, CIM academics Matt Spencer and Daniele Pizio have published two policy papers that engage with current challenges in cyber security.

‘’ is a report by Matt Spencer, published through the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS). It provides a series of recommendations for moving technology assurance policy away from prescriptive standards, and towards the new ‘goal-based’ approach that has become influential in cyber policy.

‘Deperimeterising Zero Trust: Challenging metaphors in information security’ is a policy brief by Matt Spencer and Daniele Pizio, part of the University of º£½ÇÉçÇø’s Policy Briefing Series. It examines current challenges with the trend towards a ‘Zero Trust’ paradigm for information security, and draws conclusions aimed at industry, government and academia.