1. A partnership approach to tackling Cybercrime Prof Bernard Silverman Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser

2. CSIT Summit Belfast 2012 Home Office Science  Cyber security is a top cross-Government priority  The Home Office’s specific focus is on the crime aspects  Fighting (cyber) crime needs participation of all players: individuals, community, business, academia, Government  This conference is an excellent opportunity to enable us to work together

3. CSIT Summit Belfast 2012 Home Office Science The Problem Cyber Threat Tier 1 Risk to National Security Rogue States Terrorist Organised Crime Malicious Individuals/protest groups ALL will involve some form of crime

4. CSIT Summit Belfast 2012 Home Office Science Old crimes, new opportunities

5. CSIT Summit Belfast 2012 Home Office Science New vulnerabilities

6. CSIT Summit Belfast 2012 Home Office Science Digital Evidence and Police e-crime units..has led to significant backlogs with some Forces Huge volume and complexity of demands..

7. CSIT Summit Belfast 2012 Home Office Science Home Office Science role The primary science and technology interface between: CAST Ministers & Policy Frontline Operations S&T Supply Base –Home Office Ministers and policy formulation –frontline operational decision makers –external suppliers of S&T

8. CSIT Summit Belfast 2012 Home Office Science CAST (Centre for Applied Science and Technology) –driving frontline efficiencies with effective technology –reducing crime with new techniques and sharing best practice –tackling organised crime and terrorism –securing our borders –reaching across the criminal justice system

9. CSIT Summit Belfast 2012 Home Office Science –Work with frontline partners to ensure effective use of science and technology –Plan and deliver major security events with state of the art technologies and specialist advice –Respond to major crime and security incidents –Assess outcomes and lessons learned Not just in the lab …

10. CSIT Summit Belfast 2012 Home Office Science Setting the challenge Produce typical ‘real life’ challenges for industry/academia :  Planned raid on suspected paedophile’s home  Missing person case  Document processing for Fraud investigations  Sex offender management Analogous to the Home Office iLids dataset for setting the bar for vision based detection systems

11. CSIT Summit Belfast 2012 Home Office Science Now & Future Cloud Computing Encryption Facial Recognition Automatic Detection

12. CSIT Summit Belfast 2012 Home Office Science Working in partnership –Government cannot tackle the problems alone –Need to be joined up internationally –Need to work closely with industry and academia