Leicester’s De Montfort University (DMU) has teamed up with Airbus to carry out research into ways of tackling cyber attacks. It will work on a digital forensic system, and a post-doctoral research associate from DMU will work full-time at the Airbus cyber-security research facility in South Wales for the next three years.

Helge Janicke, head of software at the DMU technology research laboratory, said: “This project will now drive forward our collaboration in the digital forensic area and lead to new applications of our research that can help to secure our national infrastructures. Therefore, I am very excited about this programme.”