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Partner or perish: Research collaboration to secure cyberspace
Cyber Security: A Peer-Reviewed Journal,
1
(1),
69-79
(2017)
Abstract
We are increasingly dependent on an increasingly unknown system, the internet. It has an expanding attack surface and is constantly evolving and changing, at a rate that is showing no sign of easing. Ironically, it presents both a critical security challenge and a great opportunity. With such a complex, multifaceted and fast-changing technological area, we cannot hope to successfully meet the challenges and accept the opportunities without broadly partnering. Put simply, it is a case of ‘partner or perish’. Or is that ‘partner and prosper’? This paper explores the contemporary cyber context and discusses the approach taken by the Australian Government’s Defence Science and Technology Group in establishing its cyber science and technology programme, and its approach to partnerships as a critical enabler.
Keywords: cyber; science and technology; strategy; collaboration
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Author's Biography
Gareth Parker is the Research Leader for Cyber Sensing and Shaping within the Australian Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group. At the time of writing, he was seconded into Data61, a business unit of the Commonwealth Scientific an Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), filling the role of Defence S&T Partnership Lead. Dr Parker joined the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, as it was then known, as a cadet engineer in December 1987, and in 1990 graduated with first class honours in electrical and electronic engineering from Adelaide University. In 2001, he was awarded a PhD from the University of South Australia for research into discrete time frequency domain signal processing. Dr Parker’s research interests include military cyber resilience and operations, in particular, those matters related to communications networks, communications signal processing and wireless technologies.
Alex Zelinsky is Australia’s Chief Defence Scientist. His scientific career includes working as a computer scientist, a systems engineer and a roboticist. His career spans innovation, science and technology, research and development, commercial start-ups and education. As Chief Defence Scientist since March 2012, he leads the Defence Science and Technology programme within the Department of Defence. Prior to joining Defence, Dr Zelinsky was Group Executive for Information Sciences at the CSIRO, Australia’s premier national research agency. Dr Zelinsky was Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Seeing Machines, a high-technology company developing computer vision systems. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a start-up from the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, where Dr Zelinsky was Professor of Systems Engineering. Dr Zelinsky is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, the Institute of Engineers Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
