Research and innovation
Evidence-led R&D for secure autonomous infrastructure.
Our research programme focuses on problems that must be solved before AI agents can be trusted with consequential infrastructure workflows.
Research agenda
Four connected technical themes.
Adaptive Red-Blue Agent Systems
Constrained attacker and defender agents that evolve strategies through min-max learning, reinforcement signals and repeatable cyber-range evaluation.
Post-Quantum Agent Identity
Crypto-agile workload identity, signed actions, secure inter-agent communication and migration testing for long-lived infrastructure systems.
Resilience Digital Twins
Simulation and hardware-in-the-loop environments linking energy, water and transport dependencies for attack propagation and recovery studies.
Continuous Agent Assurance
Machine-readable policy, behavioural evidence, human-oversight metrics and automated assurance packs for high-risk agent deployments.
Prototype roadmap
From controlled testbed to operational pilot.
Each prototype is designed to produce software, data and demonstrable controls not only a research report.
Secure Agent Gateway
Identity, policy enforcement, tool mediation, human approval and tamper-evident logging.
Adversarial Agent Lab
Red-team and blue-team agents tested in a bounded infrastructure simulation environment.
Quantum-Safe Identity Testbed
Hybrid cryptographic profiles, certificate lifecycle tests and signed high-risk agent actions.
CNI Decision-Support Pilot
One domain-specific agent deployed with progressive authority and measurable assurance.
Research principles
Useful innovation must survive operational reality.
Classical baseline first
Quantum-inspired or hybrid methods must demonstrate a measurable benefit over strong classical approaches.
Safety by constraint
Testing occurs in bounded environments with clear permissions, operator override and reproducible scenarios.
Evidence over claims
Performance, security and governance assertions are tied to datasets, tests and traceable evaluation criteria.
Collaborate
Research partners and CNI test environments.
We welcome collaboration with infrastructure operators, universities, cyber ranges, hardware suppliers and assurance specialists.