School of Science

Director, ECU Security Research Institute

Qualifications

• Masters of Management Information Systems, Edith Cowan University.
• Bachelor of Education, Edith Cowan University.
• Doctor of Information Technology, Edith Cowan University, 2004.
• Diploma of Teaching, Western Australian CAE, 1985.

Research

Recent Research Grants

• Undergraduate cybersecurity education in Australia - does it meet the mark?,  Cyber Security Research Centre Ltd,  Cyber Security Research Centre PhD Scholarship,  2020 - 2023,  $180,000.
• Measuring and Mitigating Vigilance Decrement in Cyber Network Defence Tasks,  Cyber Security Research Centre Ltd,  Cyber Security Research Centre PhD Scholarship,  2019 - 2022,  $225,000.
• Academic Centre of Cyber Security Excellence,  Department of Education, Skills and Employment,  Academic Centres of Cyber Security Excellence,  2017 - 2021,  $950,287.
• Honeypot Deployment Architecture,  Cyber Security Research Centre Ltd,  Cyber Security Research Centre Ltd,  2019 - 2021,  $130,000.
• ESSENTIAL - Evolving Security SciencE through Networked Technologies, Information policy And Law,  European Commission,  Horizons 2020,  2017 - 2021,  $394,374.
• Drone Policy Review and Forensic Handbook,  Cyber Security Research Centre Ltd,  Summer Scholarship,  2019 - 2020,  $10,700.
• ISMS Framework,  Cyber Security Research Centre Ltd,  Summer Scholarship,  2019 - 2020,  $21,400.
• Anti-spear phishing by detecting Email Impersonation,  Cyber Security Research Centre Ltd,  Summer Scholarship,  2019 - 2020,  $10,700.
• Anti-Business Email Compromise,  Cyber Security Research Centre Ltd,  Summer Scholarship,  2019 - 2020,  $10,700.
• Power Honeynet Development Pilot Research and Development Project ,  Western Power,  Western Power - Grant,  2020,  $35,000.
• Power Honeynet Development Pilot Research and Development Project ,  Horizon Power,  Grant,  2020,  $35,000.
• Password Hardening Tools,  Cyber Security Research Centre Ltd,  Sprint Student Grant,  2018 - 2019,  $70,000.
• Vulnerabilities in Ship Control Systems,  Defence Science and Technology Group of the Department of Defence,  Grant,  2017 - 2018,  $400,000.
• Cyber Security Survey and Professional Development Seminars,  Law Society of WA,  Grant,  2017 - 2018,  $30,000.
• Advanced Biometric Template Protection: Design of a Cancelable Biometric Framework,  Defence Science and Technology Group of the Department of Defence,  Competitive Evaluation Research Agreement (CERA) Program,  2017 - 2018,  $128,226.
• Cyber Electronic Warfare: The effects of team dynamics, cognitive load and team mental models.,  Defence Science and Technology Group of the Department of Defence,  Competitive Evaluation Research Agreement (CERA) Program,  2017 - 2018,  $153,407.
• Internet of Things (IoT) ModBUS and BacNET,  Cisco Systems Australia Pty Ltd,  CISCO - Grant,  2015 - 2018,  $125,000.
• Design of a Biometric Protection System using Feature Transformation Techniques,  Edith Cowan University,  Edith Cowan University, School of Science Early Career Grant Scheme Semester 1, 2017,  2017,  $8,700.
• Internet of Things (IoT),  Cisco Systems Australia Pty Ltd,  CISCO - Grant,  2016 - 2017,  $160,000.
• Investigation of social media for radicalisation and terrorism in the Maldives,  Edith Cowan University,  Edith Cowan University, School of Science Collaborative Research Grant Scheme, 2016 – 2017,  2017,  $11,000.
• Cyber Check.me,  City of Joondalup,  Grant,  2015 - 2016,  $16,740.
• Rules, Expectations and Security through Privacy-Enhanced Convenient Technologies (RESPECT) - Proposal No 285582,  European Commission,  Grant - Seventh Framework Programme (FP7),  2012 - 2015,  $223,800.
• Authentication and Authorisation for Entrusted Unions (AU2EU),  European Commission,  Grant - Seventh Framework Programme (FP7),  2013 - 2015,  $584,907.
• Scalable Measures for Automated Recognition Technologies (SMART),  European Union,  EU Seventh Framework Program,  2011 - 2014,  $389,772.
• Small Medium Enterprise Cyber Security Engagement (SMESEC) - Project Pilot,  City of Wanneroo,  Grant,  2013 - 2014,  $21,908.
• CRC for Cyber Security (CyberCRC),  Department of Commerce,  Innovation Co-investment Program,  2013,  $707,833.
• The Design, Development and Application of Active RFID Technology in Disaster Victim Identification and Routine Mortuary Practice / The Australian Future Forensics Innovation Network (AFFIN),  Griffith University,  Grant - NIRAP,  2009 - 2013,  $37,139.
• Transceiver Array for Optical Media,  Attorney-General - Commonwealth,  Grant,  2010 - 2012,  $293,091.
• Overclocking of mechanical hard disk drives,  Attorney General's D Branch,  Attorney General's Department, D Branch Grant,  2011 - 2012,  $54,545.
• Review of Vulnerability in Smart Grid Appliances and Networks,  Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,  Grant - Research Support For National Security,  2010 - 2012,  $77,154.
• Update on Investigation into RFID Threats and Vulnerabilities,  Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,  Grant - Research Support For National Security,  2010,  $10,000.
• An evaluation of the vulnerabilities of RFID and their implications to the Australian Government sector,  Department of Defence,  Defence Signals Directorate - Grant,  2005 - 2006,  $25,000.
• Research into the use of deception as a potentially legitimate policy in Commonwealth agencies,  Department of Defence,  Defence Signals Directorate - Grant,  2004 - 2005,  $39,000.

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Book Chapters

• Zheng, G., Yang, W., Johnstone, M., Shankaran, R., Valli, C., (2020), Securing the elderly in cyberspace with fingerprints. Assistive Technology for the Elderly, 59-79, Cambridge: MA., Academic Press, DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-818546-9.00003-8.
• Syed, N., Ibrahim, A., Baig, Z., Valli, C., (2019), Bio-inspired cyber-security for the smart grid.  Nature-Inspired Cyber Security and Resiliency: Fundamentals, Techniques and Application, 373-392, London, England, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) , DOI: 10.1049/PBSE010E_ch14.
• Peacock, M., Johnstone, M., Valli, C., (2018), An Exploration of Some Security Issues Within the BACnet Protocol. Information Systems Security and Privacy , 252–272, Heidelberg, Germany, Springer, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93354-2_12.
• Zheng, G., Shankaran, R., Valli, C., (2017), Cyber Security for Wireless Implants. Wearable Sensors: Applications, design and implementation, 27p., Bristol, UK, IoP Publishing, DOI: 10.1088/978-0-7503-1505-0.

Journal Articles

• Syed, N., Baig, Z., Ibrahim, A., Valli, C., (2020), Denial of service attack detection through machine learning for the IoT. Journal of Information and Telecommunication, Article in press(Article in press), 1-22, Taylor & Francis, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/24751839.2020.1767484.
• Zheng, G., Yang, W., Valli, C., Qiao, L., Shankaran, R., Orgun, MA., Mukhopadhyay, SC., (2019), Finger-to-Heart (F2H): Authentication for Wireless Implantable Medical Devices. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 23(4), 1546-1557, IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2018.2864796.
• Yang, W., Wang, S., Hu, J., Zheng, G., Yang, J., Valli, C., (2019), Securing Deep Learning Based Edge Finger-vein Biometrics with Binary Decision Diagram. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 15(7), 4244-4253, IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/TII.2019.2900665.
• Yang, W., Wang, S., Hu, J., Zheng, G., Valli, C., (2019), Security and Accuracy of Fingerprint-Based Biometrics: A Review. Symmetry, 11(2), article no.141, DOI: 10.3390/sym11020141.
• Zheng, G., Yang, W., Valli, C., Shankaran, R., Abbas, H., Zhang, G., Fang, G., Chaudhry, J., Qiao, L., (2019), Fingerprint Access Control for Wireless Insulin Pump Systems Using Cancelable Delaunay Triangulations. IEEE Access, 7(2019), 75629-75641, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2920850.
• Yang, W., Wang, S., Hu, J., Ibrahim, A., Zheng, G., Macedo, M., Johnstone, M., Valli, C., (2019), A Cancelable Iris- and Steganography-Based User Authentication System for the Internet of Things. Sensors, 19(13), article no.2985, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s19132985.
• Zheng, G., Shankaran, R., Yang, W., Valli, C., Qiao, L., Orgun, M., Mukhopadhyay, SC., (2019), A Critical Analysis of ECG-based Key Distribution for Securing Wearable and Implantable Medical Devices. IEEE Sensors Journal, 19(3), 1186-1198, IEEE Sensors Council, DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2018.2879929.
• McAteer, I., Ibrahim, A., Zheng, G., Yang, W., Valli, C., (2019), Integration of Biometrics and Steganography: A Comprehensive Review. Technologies, 7(2), Article no. 34, DOI: 10.3390/technologies7020034.
• Yang, W., Wang, S., Zheng, G., Yang, J., Valli, C., (2019), A Privacy-Preserving Lightweight Biometric System for Internet-of-Things Security. IEEE Communications Magazine, 57(3), 84-89, DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2019.1800378.
• Yang, W., Wang, S., Zheng, G., Valli, C., (2019), Impact of feature proportion on matching performance of multi-biometric systems. ICT Express, 5(1), 37-40, DOI: 10.1016/j.icte.2018.03.001.
• Yang, W., Wang, S., Hu, J., Zheng, G., Chaudhry, J., Adi, E., Valli, C., (2018), Securing Mobile Healthcare Data: A Smart Card based Cancelable Finger-vein Bio-Cryptosystem. IEEE Access, 6(26 January 2018), 9390-9403, IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2799522.
• Ibrahim, A., Valli, C., McAteer, I., Chaudhry, J., (2018), A security review of local government using NIST CSF: a case study. Journal of Supercomputing, 74(10), 5171-5186, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/s11227-018-2479-2.
• Abrar, H., Hussain, S., Chaudhry, J., Saleem, K., Orgun, M., Al-Muhtadi, J., Valli, C., (2018), Risk Analysis of Cloud Sourcing in Healthcare and Public Health Industry. IEEE Access, 6(13 February 2018), 19140-19150, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2805919.
• Yang, W., Wang, S., Hu, J., Zheng, G., Valli, C., (2018), A Fingerprint and Finger-vein Based Cancelable Multi-biometric System. Pattern Recognition, 78(June 2018), 242-251, DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2018.01.026.
• Yang, W., Wang, S., Zheng, G., Chaudhry, J., Valli, C., (2018), ECB4CI: An Enhanced Cancelable Biometric System for Securing Critical Infrastructures. Journal of Supercomputing, 74(10), 4893-4909, DOI: 10.1007/s11227-018-2266-0.
• Chernyshev, M., Valli, C., Johnstone, M., (2017), Revisiting Urban War Nibbling: Mobile Passive Discovery of Classic Bluetooth Devices Using Ubertooth One. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 12(7), 1625-1636, IEEE Signal Processing Society, DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2017.2678463.
• Baig, Z., Szewczyk, P., Valli, C., Rabadia, P., Hannay, P., Chernyshev, M., Johnstone, M., Kerai, P., Ibrahim, A., Sansurooah, K., Syed, N., Peacock, M., (2017), Future Challenges for Smart Cities: Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics. Digital Investigation, 22(August 2017), 3-13, Oxon, United Kingdom, Elsevier Advanced Technology, DOI: 10.1016/j.diin.2017.06.015.
• Chernyshev, M., Valli, C., Hannay, P., (2016), On 802.11 Access Point Locatability and Named Entity Recognition in Service Set Identifiers. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 11(3), 584 - 593, Piscataway, USA, IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2015.2507542.

Conference Publications

• Cabral, WZ., Valli, C., Sikos, L., Wakeling, S., (2019), Review and Analysis of Cowrie Artefacts and their Potential to be Used Deceptively. Proceedings of 6th Annual Conference on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence, 166-171, Piscataway, USA, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., DOI: 10.1109/CSCI49370.2019.00035.
• Speelman, C., Valli, C., Guidetti, O., (2019), Towards a Method for Examining the Effects of Cognitive Load on the Performance of Cyber First Responders. Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Management (SAM), 41-47, Athens, Georgia, The Steering Committee of The World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WorldComp).
• Chaudhry, J., Farmand, S., Islam, S., Islam, MR., Hannay, P., Valli, C., (2018), Discovering trends for the development of novel authentication applications for dementia patients. International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Cyber Security and Intelligence, Applications and Techniques in Cyber Security and Intelligence, 580(16-18 June, 2017), 220-237, China, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67071-3_29.
• Chaudhry, J., Valli, C., Crowley, M., Haass, J., Roberts, P., (2018), POStCODE Middleware for Post-Market Surveillance of Medical Devices for Cyber Security in Medical and Healthcare Sector in Australia. International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, ISMICT, 2018-March(26-28 March 2018), 10 p., Piscataway, NJ, IEEE Computer Society, DOI: 10.1109/ISMICT.2018.8573695.
• Valli, C., Johnstone, M., Fleming, R., (2018), A Survey of Lawyers’ Cyber Security Practises in Western Australia. Annual ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law, 219-226, Florida, USA, Association of Digital Forensics, Security and Law.
• Yang, W., Zheng, G., Ibrahim, A., Chaudhry, J., Wang, S., Hu, J., Valli, C., (2018), Application of 3D Delaunay Triangulation in Fingerprint Authentication System. Mobile Networks and Management. MONAMI 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 235(13-15 December, 2017), 291-298, Springer, Cham, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90775-8_23.
• Chaudhry, J., Ahmad, M., Habib, MA., Ashraf, R., Valli, C., (2017), Enhancements in Data-Recovery and Re-Transmit Mechanisms of Transmission Control Protocol Enabled Medical Devices. Proceedings 2017 IEEE 42nd Conference on Local Computer Networks Workshops, 121-12721-127, IEEE.
• Murray, G., Johnstone, M., Valli, C., (2017), The convergence of IT and OT in critical infrastructure. Proceedings of the 15th Australian Information Security Management Conference, 149-155, Perth, WA, Edith Cowan University.
• Chaudhry, J., Saleem, K., Islam, R., Selamat, A., Ahmed, M., Valli, C., (2017), AZSPM: Autonomic Zero-Knowledge Security Provisioning Model for Medical Control Systems in Fog Computing Environments. Proceedings 2017 IEEE 42nd Conference on Local Computer Networks Workshops, 121-127, IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/LCN.Workshops.2017.73.
• Zheng, G., Zhang, G., Yang, W., Valli, C., Shankaran , R., Orgun, MA., (2017), From WannaCry to WannaDie: Security Trade-offs and Design for Implantable Medical Devices. 17th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT2017), 1-5, online, IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/ISCIT.2017.8261228.
• Peacock, M., Johnstone, M., Valli, C., (2017), Security Issues with BACnet Value Handling. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP) 2017, 546-552, Science and Technology Publications.
• Rabadia, P., Valli, C., Ibrahim, A., Baig, Z., (2017), Analysis of attempted intrusions: Intelligence gathered from SSH honeypots. The Proceedings of 15th Australian Information Security Management Conference, 10p., Perth, W.A., Edith Cowan University, DOI: 10.4225/75/5a839e6d1d283.
• Bothur, D., Zheng, G., Valli, C., (2017), A critical analysis of security vulnerabilities and countermeasures in a smart ship system. The Proceedings of 15th Australian Information Security Management Conference, 81-87, Perth, Australia, Edith Cowan University.
• Syed, N., Baig, Z., Valli, C., Ibrahim, A., (2017), Modelling and Evaluation of Malicious Attacks against the IoT MQTT Protocol. Proceedings 2017 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData), 748-755, online, IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/iThings-GreenCom-CPSCom-SmartData.2017.115.
• Chernyshev, M., Valli, C., Hannay, P., (2016), Service set identifier geolocation for forensic purposes: Opportunities and challenges. Proceedings of the 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Article no. 7427866, IEEE Computer Society, DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2016.678.
• Thomas, T., Valli, C., (2015), Mapping the laws which apply to intercepting wireless communications in a Western Australian legal context. Proceedings of the 13th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, 22-36, Perth, WA, ECU Security Research Institute.
• Ibrahim, A., Valli, C., (2015), Image Similarity using Dynamic Time Warping of Fractal Features. Proceedings of 13th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, 111-122, Perth, WA, ECU Security Research Institute.
• Rabadia, P., Valli, C., (2015), Analysis into developing accurate and efficient intrusion detection approaches. Proceedings of 13th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, 70-76, Perth, WA, ECU Security Research Institute.
• Valli, C., Rabadia, P., Woodward, A., (2015), A Profile of Prolonged, Persistent SSH Attack on a Kippo Based Honeynet. Proceedings of the Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law, 23-32, Virginia, USA, Association of Digital Forensics, Security and Law.
• Chernyshev, M., Valli, C., Hannay, P., (2015), 802.11 Tracking and Surveillance - A Forensic Perspective. Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'15), 349-352, WorldComp.
• Heriyanto, A., Valli, C., Hannay, P., (2015), Comparison of live response, Linux memory extractor (lime) and mem tool for acquiring android's volatile memory in the malware incident. Proceedings of 13th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, 5-14, Perth, WA, ECU Security Research Institute.

Research Student Supervision

Principal Supervisor

• Doctor of Philosophy,  .
• Doctor of Philosophy,  Discourses of terrorism: The role of internet technologies (social media and online propaganda) on islamic radicalisation, extremism and recruitment post 9/11
• Doctor of Philosophy,  Extraction of patterns in selected network traffic for a precise and efficient intrusion detection approach
• Doctor of Philosophy,  Secure portable execution and storage environments: A capability to improve security for remote working
• Master of Science (Computer Science),  Audit trails and organisational barriers.
• Doctor of Philosophy,  A non-device specific framework for the development of forensic locational data analysis procedure for consumer grade small and embedded devices
• Doctor of Information Technology,  Security awareness by online banking users in Western Australian of phishing attacks
• Doctor of Philosophy,  The development of an attack graph using applied levels of deception for directing attack methods in a honeynet.
• Doctor of Information Technology,  A forensics framework and method in the acquisition and extraction of data from nand flash memory storage chip
• Master of Science (Computer Science),  Physical layer security using optical steganography and encoding techniques in optical networks
• Doctor of Philosophy,  An investigation into remote transactions.
• Doctor of Philosophy,  An investigation into factors inhibiting Australian end-users from utilising adsl router security effectively
• Doctor of Philosophy,  Blind steganalysis using fractal features
• Doctor of Information Technology,  A method for securing online community service: A study of selected Western Australian councils

Co-principal Supervisor

• Doctor of Philosophy,  Mining climate data for shire level wheat yield predictions in Western Australia

Associate Supervisor

• Doctor of Philosophy,  The information strategy requirements of the unit states government from 2004 onwards.
• Doctor of Philosophy,  An intelligence model for terrorist incident prevention for Australian police: A systemic investigation
• Doctor of Philosophy,  An investigation into electronic information security in general practice.
• Doctor of Philosophy,  An investigation into off-link ipv6 host enumeration search techniques
• Doctor of Philosophy,  IoT-MQTT based denial of service attack modelling and detection
• Doctor of Philosophy,  Anomaly detection in bacnet/ip managed building automation systems