Building cyber capacity
OCSC undertakes a variety of research and education projects designed to foster thought leadership and enhance cybersecurity capacity. Whether is it an internal scoping exercise, collaboration with external stakeholders, or educational seminars, they all further our mission of developing cyber literacy and building digital resilience within the region.
University Internship Projects
The International Cyber Operating Environment and Donor Analysis
The project team:
Professor Matt Warren
Professor Iqbal Gondal
A/Professor Paul Pang
Australian and Pacific Region Cyber Capacity Building Gap Analysis
In response to the Cyber and Critical Technology Cooperation Program call for views, this research project will conduct a cyber capacity building gap analysis of the Australian and wider Pacific region to inform a submission to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade proposing potential solutions to the identified opportunities and challenges.
The project team:
Jaskirat Sandhu – Monash University
Chao Cheng – Monash University
CIIER and NESTA Digital Cities Pilot Project
This project will facilitate the placement of several OCSC member university students as interns, with the OCSC and the CIIER and NESTA (UK) partnership conducting a pilot research project to adapt the Australian Digital Cities Index (ACDI) and the European Digital Cities Index (EDCI) methodology in a developing economy environment.
The pilot research project will identify synergy, duplications, and unique indicators from the ACDI and EDCIs as compared with the Cyber Security Maturity Model for Nations (CMM), to ensure that the Index has specific and beneficial application to developing economies.
Further, it will build upon the findings of the CMM, to identify the macro and micro economic advantages and limitations, with a view to identifying pathways for digital economic investment and skills enhancement.
The project team:
Harith Morawakage – Monash University
Adelaide Pope – University of Melbourne
Tia Brullo – Monash University
OCSC Education Program
This project comprises of 3 phases.
Phase 1 will assess the current educational operating environment and its offerings for short courses, industry training and micro-credentials that offer technical cyber security courses, cyber security policy, regulation and awareness for governments and other industry groups including effective cyber security management. The research will establish a definitional status to identify what courses and curriculum are in scope for the purposes of the audit.
Phase 2 of the project will be an assessment of courses offered in the Pacific region and will include any Dimension 3 recommendations stemming from the CMM.
Phase 3 of the project will consolidate phase 1 and 2 of the project and using evidence-based findings propose to develop multiple short-courses as pilot programs to be deployed and promoted nationally and abroad.
Meredith Jones
Cyber Security Winter School
OCSC, RMIT University and Australian Information Security Association (AISA) worked together to create, coordinate, and facilitate the ‘Cyber Security Winter School’.
In August 2021 five seminars were held in a span of one week. EOIs were sought from academics to present at the Winter School on an area of cyber security speciality with attendees from students from multiple universities, industry professionals, government representatives and other cyber security researchers.
The project team:
Professor Matt Warren
Professor Iqbal Gondal
A/Professor Paul Pang
