Mr Michael Coole

Lecturer

Telephone: (61 8)  63045123  
Email: m.coole@ecu.edu.au   
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO18.244  

 

Current Teaching

  • Intrusion Detection Systems
  • Access Control Systems
  • Closed Circuit Television Systems
  • Facility Management
  • Physical Security
  • Industrial Security Procedures
  • Security and Risk Management
  • Management of the Security Function

Background

  • Served in the Royal Australian Navy as a Clearance Diver
  • Served with the Australian Special Air Service Regiment for Counter-terrorist duties
  • Worked within the correctional security environment in physical, personnel security and emergency management operations
  • Consultant focusing on security related aspects of works projects and Physical Protection Systems assessments (PPS)

Research Areas and Interests

  • Security Decay
  • Security Metrics
  • Mapping the organisational structure of the security profession

Staff Qualifications

  • MSc (Master of Science), Edith Cowan University, 2011 .
  • Dip (Diploma), UNKNOWN, 2010 .
  • BSc (Bachelor of Science), Edith Cowan University, 2008 .

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Conference Publications

  • Coole, M., Brooks, D., (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, 49-57, Perth, Western Australia.
  • Coole, M., Brooks, D., (2009), Security Decay: An Entropic Approach to Definition and Understanding. Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 19-27, Perth, Western Australia.
  • Coole, M., Brooks, D., (2009), The theory of entropic security decay. Proceedings of 2nd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 19-27.