About
With the reputation as one of the leading digital security and forensic groups in the world, the secau Security Research Centre has emerged as one of Edith Cowan University’s most vital research groups. We offer a range of investigating study areas that deliver immediate and high impact outcomes in the area of computer and digital forensics, network and wireless security, information warfare, physical security, risk management and aviation security.
The group’s principal research areas are directly applicable to digital exploration in the areas of banking finance, private corporations, and national security. Ongoing collaborations with the various Australian and international partners, as well as a range of security related research alliances are testament to the critical importance of digital and physical security in the present and immediate future.
secau has attracted a world-class profile in a number of specific areas including, but not limited to, computer forensics, network and wireless security, information warfare, net work honeypots, physical security and risk management. With capabilities in data recovery, data protection, access retrieval, RFID tracking proficiencies, and risk and vulnerability assessments, the research centre’s work is in high demand in the ongoing battle to limit and restrict the activities of terrorists, criminals and criminal gangs.
With research success in a number of high security areas,the secau Security Research Centre is poised to become the paramount, end to end, security research program in the world. secau aims to remain Australia’s leading digital security group, engaging with the monitoring, intercepting, and interceding in networks and environments. It fosters digital research in the advancement of law enforcement, protection, medicine, health, safety, corporate risk management, and e-governance.
ACS Centre of Excellence in Security
In 2009, the Australian Computer Society established a Centre of Excellence in Security in partnership with the secau Security Research Centre at ECU. The Centre of Excellence establishes a new partnership between ACS, the wider information and communications technology (ICT) industry, academia and government, and recognises establishments setting national standards of performance and enhancing the advance of ICT at an international level.