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Dr Dave Brooks

Dr Dave Brooks

Dr Dave Brooks

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: (61 8)  6304 5788  
Facsimile: (61 8)  6304 5811  
Email: d.brooks@ecu.edu.au   
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO18.246  

 

Responsibilities

Dr. David Brooks is a Senior Lecturer within the School of Computer and Security Science, teaching and researching topics within the broad domain of Security Science or Corporate Security. David has published, presented and taught in his areas of specialisation in many parts of the world, with his most recent book titled "Key concepts in Security Risk Management", which followed a previous book titled "Public Street CCTV: A psychometric study on the perceived social risk".

Current Teaching

  • SCY1101/SCY4101 Security and Risk Management
  • SCY4108 Building Management Systems
  • SCY4411/SCY5203 Advanced Security Risk Management

Background / Employment History

Prior to taking up the Security Science position with Edith Cowan University, David was employed by the Australian Defence Department as the Western Australian Regional Contract Manager for fixed plant and equipment. He was primarily responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of the strategic process of facility plant maintenance and management. In addition, his other responsibilities included facility management and contract administration of all plant and equipment operations and maintenance activities within the West Australian region.

Previous employment included seven years within the commercial security environment as a technical consultant and 13 years in the Royal Air Force (UK) as a Development Engineer in Defence Radar and Display systems.

Staff Qualifications

  • PhD (Curtin University of Technology)
  • Masters of Science (Security Science) (Edith Cowan University)
  • Bachelor of Science (Security Science) (Edith Cowan University)
  • Advanced Diploma in Engineering (Computer Aided Electronics) (Grantham Technical College)
  • Further & Adult Education Teachers Certificate (Grantham Technical College)
  • Certificate in Avionics (Royal Air Force Locking, Radio School)

Professional Memberships

  • ASIS International, WA Chapter Treasurer

Recent Industry Presentations or Workshops

  • Brooks, D. (2011, December). Is your Building Management System or Intelligent Building exposing your organsiation? An overview of the vulnerabilities in these systems. Proceedings of the 5th Asia-Pacific Conference, Advancing Security in the Asia-Pacific Region, Kuala Lumpur: ASIS International.
  • Braes, B., & Brooks, D. (2011, December). What Is Corporate Resilience and How Is It Achieved? Proceedings of the 5th Asia-Pacific Conference, Advancing Security in the Asia-Pacific Region, Kuala Lumpur: ASIS International.
  • Brooks, D. (2011, December). Is CCTV an effective tool in crime prevention? Community, industry and academia views. Sydney: CCTV World 2011.
  • Brooks, D. (2010, October). Corporate security: Understanding knowledge construct. ASIS International WA Chapter, Perth, Australia.
  • Brooks, D. (2010, July). Corporate security: An understanding of construct, Singapore Manufacturers Federation (SMa), Singapore.
  • Brooks, D. (2009, August). Security risk management: what skews the risk assessment process? Paper presented at the 14th Advanced AVSEC Management Course, AVSECO Training Academy, Hong Kong.
  • Brooks, D. (2009, July). An introduction to AS/NZ ISO31000 risk management standard framework. Paper presented at the Symposium on Progress in Software Risk Management, Information, Telecommunications and Electronic College, Engineers Australia, Perth, Australia.
  • Brooks, D. (2009, February). Corporate security: an educational framework of integrated knowledge categories. Proceedings of the 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference, Advancing Security in the Asia-Pacific Region, ASIS International: Hong Kong.
  • Brooks, D. (2009, February). Emerging security technologies. ASIS International Hong Kong Chapter: Hong Kong.
  • Brooks, D. (November, 2008). Security Risk Management: What skews the risk communication process? RMIA 2008 Annual Conference, Risk Management Institute of Australasia: Perth, Australia.

Awards and Recognition

  • School of Engineering Distinguished Service Award for Service (2004)

Research

Research Interests

  • Entropic security decay: Developing an understanding on how to define and measure characteristics that reduce the commissioning effectiveness of security as a mitigation system.
  • Security Science body of knowledge: Understanding, defining and developing Organisational security.
  • Resilience within Security: Both within an organisation and as a vetting tool.
  • Security risk management: Use of psychometric multidimensional scaling to present knowledge structure and better understand social risk.
  • Psychometric concept mapping of expert knowledge structure, such as security risk managers and security body of knowledge. Mapping concepts and social risks, such as terrorism.
  • Defeat evaluation of security technology.
  • Building management systems (BMS) vulnerabilities.
  • CCTV.

Recent Research Grants

  • Building management systems (BMS) vulnerabilities.
  • Organisational security: A psychometric study to map expert and novice. Learner knowledge structure to enhance teaching and learning, Learning and Teaching Grant, Faculty of Computing, Health and Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth.

Recent Publications (with the last five years)

Books

  • Cubbage, C. & Brooks, D. J. (2012, in production). Corporate Security in the Asia Pacific Region: Crisis, Crime, Fraud and Misconduct. Boca Raton: Taylor and Francis Books.
  • Brooks, D. J. (2009). Key concepts in security risk management. Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag. ISBN 978-3-639-18598-0
  • Brooks, D.J. (2008). Public street CCTV: A psychometric study of social risk. Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag. ISBN-10: 3639058631

Book Chapters

  • Braes, B., & Brooks, D. J. (2011). Organisational resilience: Understanding and identifying the essential concepts. (pp. 117-128). Antwerp: Security amd Safety Engineering IV. Southampton: WIT Press.

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Brooks, D. J. (2012, in print). Corporate Security: Understanding practice boundaries from knowledge construction to a body of knowledge, Asian Journal of Criminology.
  • Brooks, D. J., & Griffith, M. (2012, in print). Informing security through Cultural Cognition: The influence of cultural bias on operational security. Journal of Applied Security Research, 7(2).
  • Brooks, D. J. (2011). Security risk management: A psychometric map of expert knowledge structure. Risk Management: An International Journal, 13(1/2), 17-41. doi: 10.1057/rm.2010.7
  • Brooks, D. J. (2011). Intruder alarm systems: Is the security industry installing and maintaining alarm systems in compliance to Australian Standard AS2201? Security Journal, 24(2), 101-117. doi:10.1057/sj.2009.12
  • Brooks, D .J. (2010). What is security: Definition through knowledge categorisation, Security Journal, 23(3). 229-239. doi:10.1057/sj.2008.18
  • Brooks, D. J. (2008). Defining the science of security through knowledge categorisation. Acta Criminologica, CRIMSA Conference Special Edition 2008, 1, 12-23.
  • Brooks, D. J. (2007). The Academicians: Interview with David Brooks. Journal of Security Education, 2(4), 119-125.
  • Brooks, D J. (2005). Is Public Space CCTV a social benefit? A psychometric study on perceived social risk. Security Journal, 18 (2), 19-29.

Conference Papers

  • Doleman, R., & Brooks, D. J. (2011). Why are there systemic failures of fire protection equipment in Australian Aged Care Nursing facilities. Proceedings of the 10th EuroFM Research Symposium: Cracking the Productivity Nut (pp. 35-45). Naarden, The Netherlands: European Facilities Management Network (EuroFM).
  • Brooks, D. J. (2011). Intelligent buildings: An investigation into current and emerging security vulnerabilities in automated building systems using an applied defeat methodology. Proceedings of the 4th Australian Security and Intelligence Conference (pp. 16-26). Perth: Edith Cowan University.
  • Brooks, D. J., & Cotton, H. (2011). Security risk management in the Asia Pacific region: What are security professional using? Proceedings of the 4th Australian Security and Intelligence Conference (pp. 27-37). Perth: Edith Cowan University.
  • Coole, M., & Brooks, D. J. (2011). Mapping the organizational relations within physical security’s body of knowledge: A management heuristic of sound theory and best practice. Proceedings of the 4th Australian Security and Intelligence Conference (pp. 38-46). Perth: Edith Cowan University.
  • Doleman, R., & Brooks, D. J. (2011). A strategy to articulate the facility management knowledge categories within the built environment. Proceedings of the 4th Australian Security and Intelligence Conference (pp. 47-56). Perth: Edith Cowan University.
  • Beard, B., & Brooks, D. J. (2010). A Comparison of laboratory and vulnerability evaluation methods for the testing security equipment. Paper presented at the 3rd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, Perth.
  • Brae, B., & Brooks, D. J. (2010). Organisational resilience: A propositional study to understand and identify the essential concepts. Paper presented at the 3rd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, Perth.
  • Brooks, D. J. (2010). Assessing vulnerabilities of biometric readers using an applied defeat evaluation methodology. Paper presented at the 3rd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, Perth.
  • Brooks, D. J., Corkill, J., Pooley, J., Cohen, L., Ferguson, C., & Harms, C. (2010). National security: A propositional study to develop resilience indicators as an aid to personnel vetting. Paper presented at the 3rd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, Perth.
  • Griffiths, M., Brooks, D. J., & Corkill, J. (2010). Defining the security professional: Definition through a body of knowledge. Paper presented at the 3rd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, Perth.
  • Sargent, R., & Brooks, D. J. (2010). Terrorism in Australia: A psychometric study into the Western Australian public perception of terrorism. Paper presented at the 3rd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, Perth.
  • Beard, B., & Brooks, D. J. (2009). Consensual security risk assessment: Overcoming bias, conflicting interests and parochialism. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, Perth.
  • Brooks, D. J. (2009). Defeating biometric fingerprint systems: An applied testing methodology. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, Perth.
  • Coole, M., & Brooks, D. J. (2009). Security Decay: An entropic approach to definition and understanding. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, Perth.
  • Loo, Y. H., & Brooks, D. J. (2009). Terror attacks: Understanding social risk views between Singaporean lay and security practitioners. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, Perth.
  • Alruwaii, A., & Brooks, D. J. (2008). Organisational security: a propositional study to map expert knowledge. Paper presented at the Proceeding of the 1st Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, Perth.
  • Brooks, D. J. (2007). Defining security through the presentation of security knowledge categories. Paper presented at the 7th Australian Security Research Symposium, Perth.
  • Brooks, D. J. (2007, October). Defining the science of security through knowledge categorisation. Paper presented at the Criminology and Victimlogical Society of Southern Africa (CRIMSA) Conference 2007, University of Pretoria, Pretoria.
  • Beard, B., & Brooks, D. J. (2006). Security risk assessment: Group approach to a consensual outcome. Proceeding of the 7th Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference, 5-8.
  • Brooks, D. J. (2006). Mapping the consensual knowledge of security risk management experts. Proceedings of the 7th Australian Information and Warfare Security Conference, 9-17.
  • Brooks, D. J. (2006). A study to develop a consensual map of security expert knowledge structure. Paper presented at the Proceeding of the 2006 40th International Carnahan Conference in Security Technology, Lexington, Kentucky.

Research Student Supervision

Current

PhD

  • Mr Bill Bailey, Contemporary directions for counter insurgency campaigns based upon experiences from previous campaigns in Kenya (1952-60) and Malaya (1948-60)
  • Mr Bruce Brae, Organisational resilience: Understanding and identifying the essential concepts
  • Mr Robert Doleman, A study into the Facility Management knowledge categories within the life cycle of a building
  • Mr Melvyn Griffiths, The influence of ‘dread risk’ on experts’ estimation of risk consequence
  • Mr Chris Phinney, Defining the security industry’s body of knowledge
  • Mr Andrew Taylor, Energy security identities: The pursuit of a framework for categorising a nation’s energy security level

Recent

MSc

  • Mr Michael Coole, The theory of entropic security decay: The gradual degradation in effectiveness of commissioned security systems