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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  

 

Current Teaching

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

Background

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.

Professional Memberships

  • ASIS International, WA Chapter Treasurer

Awards and Recognition

University and National Teaching Awards

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

Research Areas and 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.

Staff Qualifications

  • Master, Edith Cowan University .
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Curtin University of Technology, 2004 .
  • BSc (Bachelor of Science), Edith Cowan University, 1999 .

Research

Recent Research Grants

  • Building Management Systems Security Vulnerabilities,  Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,  Grant,  2011,  $9,217.
  • Review of Vulnerability in Smart Grid Appliances and Networks,  Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,  Grant - Research Support For National Security,  2011,  $27,273.
  • Building Management Systems Security Vulnerabilities,  Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,  Grant(**),  2010,  $12,332.
  • Review of Vulnerability in Smart Grid Appliances and Networks,  Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,  Grant - Research Support For National Security(**),  2010,  $30,000.

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Books

  • Brooks, D., (2009), Key concepts in security risk management: A psychometric concept map to approach to understanding., 175, Saarbrucken, Germany.
  • Brooks, D., (2008), Public Street CCTV: A Psychometric Study of Social Risk., 145, Saarbrucken, Germany.

Book Chapters

  • Braes, B., Brooks, D., (2011), Organisational Resilience: Understanding and identifying the essential concepts. Safety and Security Engineering IV, 117-128, Southampton, UK.

Journal Articles

  • Brooks, D., (2011), Security risk management: A psychometric map of expert knowledge structure. Risk Management, 13(1-2), 17-41, DOI: 10.1057/rm.2010.7.
  • Brooks, D., (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, United Kingdom, DOI: 10.1057/sj.2009.12.
  • Brooks, D., (2009), What is security: Definition through knowledge categorisation. Security Journal, 23(12 January 2009), 225-239, United Kingdom, DOI: 10.1057/sj.2008.18.
  • Brooks, D., (2009), Intruder Alarm Systems: Is the Security Industry Installing and Maintaining Alarm Systems in Compliance to Australian Standard AS2201?. Security Journal, 10(1057), 1-17, United Kingdom, DOI: 10.1057/sj.2009.12.
  • Brooks, D., (2008), Defining the science of private security through knowledge categorisation. Acta Criminologica, 1(25-Jan), 12-23, Roodepoort.
  • Brooks, D., (2008), The Academicians: Interview with David Brooks. Journal of Security Education, 2(4), 119-125, Binghamton, NY.

Conference Publications

  • Brooks, D., (2011), Organisational security: From expert knowledge construct to a body of knowledge. Proceedings of the Conference Security in Futures ? Security in Change, 72-82.
  • Brooks, D., (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, 16-26, Perth, Western Australia.
  • Doleman, R., Brooks, D., (2011), Systemic failures of fire protection equipment in Australian aged care nursing facilities. Proceedings of the 10th EuroFM Research Symposium: Cracking the Productivity Nut, 35-45, Naarden, The Netherlands.
  • Doleman, R., Brooks, D., (2011), A strategy to articulate the facility management knowledge categories within the built environment. Proceedings of the 4th Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 58-67, Perth, Western Australia.
  • 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.
  • Brooks, D., 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, 27-37, Perth, Western Australia.
  • Sargent, R., Brooks, D., (2010), Terrorism in Australia: A psychometric study into the Western Australian public perception of terrorism. Proceedings of the 3rd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 63-72, Perth.
  • Beard, B., Brooks, D., (2010), A comparison of laboratory and vulnerability evaluation methods for the testing security equipment. Proceedings of the 3rd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 1-13, Perth.
  • Brooks, D., (2010), Assessing vulnerabilities of biometric readers using an applied defeat evaluation methodology. The Proceedings of the 3rd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 23-34, Perth.
  • Braes, B., Brooks, D., (2010), Organisational resilience: A propositional study to understand and identify the essential concepts. Proceedings of the 3rd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 14-22, Perth.
  • Brooks, D., Corkill, J., Pooley, JA., Cohen, L., Ferguson, C., Harms, C., (2010), National security: A propositional study to develop resilience indicators as an aid to personnel vetting. Proceedings of the 3rd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 35-43, Perth.
  • Griffiths, M., Brooks, D., Corkill, J., (2010), Defining the security professional: Definition through a body of knowledge. Proceedings of the 3rd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 44-52, Perth.
  • Beard, B., Brooks, D., (2009), Consensual Security Risk Assessment: Overcoming Bias, Conflicting Interests and Parochialism. 2nd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 41-47, Perth.
  • Beard, B., Brooks, D., (2009), Consensual security risk assessment: overcoming bias, conflicting interests and parochialism. Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 41-47, Perth.
  • Brooks, D., (2009), Defeating biometric fingerprint systems: An applied testing methodology. Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 1-9, 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.
  • Loo, YH., Brooks, D., (2009), Terror attacks: Understanding social risk views between Singaporean lay and security practitioners. Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 33-40, Perth, Western Australia.
  • Alruwaii, A., Brooks, D., (2008), Organisational Security: A Propositional Study to Map Expert Knowledge. Proceedings of the 1st Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 4-11, Perth.
  • Lane, G., Brooks, D., (2008), The Use of Red Teaming in The Corporate Environment: A Study of Security Management, Vulnerabilities and Defence. Proceedings of the 1st Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 77-83, Perth.
  • Alsuhaimi, J., Brooks, D., (2008), Psychometric Risk Perception: Why Some Individuals Elect not to Act on Risks?. Proceedings of the 1st Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 12-16, Perth.

Research Student Supervision

Principal Supervisor