Raytheon to meet UK cyber challenge
Through its CIC ecosystem Raytheon UK partners with domain experts, academia and SMEs to develop network defence technologies to protect computer networks against cyber attacks (Raytheon UK)
As internet usage grows exponentially, the threat of cyber warfare activities from criminal organisations or state-supported organisations has increased as well. Raytheon is using is CICs to expand the depth and breadth of skills across industry and meet this challenge
Raytheon UK’s two Cyber Innovation Centres (CICs) have expanded in size to support the development of the cyber sector.
From the opening of its first CIC in Gloucester in 2015, a second was opened in Manchester two years later and now has 350 people working at the sites, a growth of 10 times from when it started.
Operating as a hub, the CICs house cyber professionals working on projects from big data and analytics to network defence and cyber and information assurance projects
James Gray, managing director of cyber at Raytheon UK, told Shephard that the cyber business is ‘constrained
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