Research Themes
SImPLE Engagement with Police
ECU Students, Staff and WA Police have combined to produce a software system called SIMPLE (Simple Image Preview in Live Environment) The system will bed used by WA police to view images on computer drives in ways that do not affect the forensic integrity of the drive. The images are often used as evidence in criminal cases. The maintenance, testing and continued design and development of this full production software system to full industry ISO specifications. The WA Police Department will be able to take advantage of the expert skills set of the students who keep the system running and up to date in a rapidly changing field.
Examples of Research Projects within the SECAU
PhD
- Managing Asymmetric Threats to National Security – Terrorist Information Operations. (ARC Grant)
- Network security: Non-Business Use of the Internet.
- Developing an Ideal Counter Terrorist Intelligence Model to Enhance the Capability of Australian Police to Prevent a Terrorist Incident.
- Adapting Information Operations to a Changing World: Future Option for the United States Government.
- Framework for first responders to 3rd generation mobile phones.
- A framework for deception in wireless honeypots.
- Honeypots as a viable internal countermeasure.
- A framework Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag security.
- A framework for secure medical information exchange.
Research Projects and grants
- Aviation Security trends in Asia Pacific: AUSAID.
- Aviation security and unauthorised arrivals. Arab Emirates and various Governments.
- Human resource issues in aviation security.
- RFID Security. Department of Defence.
- A Model for IT Security Outsourcing of Critical Services. ARC grant with Deakin University.
Past Industry Partners
- Western Australian Police.
- Australian Federal Police.
- Defence Signals Directorate.
- Rio Tinto/Argyle Diamonds.
- National Police Forensics Group.
- British Telecom.
- Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO T4 Protective Security)
- The Western Australian Crime and Corruption Commission
- Sandia National Laboratories USA
- Emirates Airlines.