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Scientists at the 成人大片 will be working on a new set of defence-related projects to continue world-class research that aims to keep Australia safe.

The University has signed agreements with the Australian Government鈥檚 Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) and聽CSIRO鈥檚 Data61聽for research led by Professor Debi Ashenden, Associate Professor Hung Nguyen and Associate Professor Damith Ranasinghe from the University鈥檚 School of Computer Science.

Professor Michael Webb is Director of the Defence and Security Institute (DSI) and Academic Coordinator for Defence, Cyber and Space at the 成人大片.聽 鈥淭he 成人大片 has recently signed four research agreements with DSTG in the area of advanced cyber capabilities.聽 These projects are funded under the Next Generation Technology Fund鈥檚 cyber program and are four of the 11 that have been given the go-ahead nationally. Projects such as these that help keep Australia safe and enable our researchers to collaborate with like-minded organisations at the highest levels,鈥� he said.

Professor Ashenden holds the DST Group-成人大片 Joint Chair in Cyber Security. Her project is part of DSTG鈥檚 Next Generation Technology (NGT) Cyber Call 2020 鈥� Fusing Behavioural Science and Cyber Deception 鈥� Fighting Wars from Inside Machines.

鈥淢y project aims to fuse behavioural research on deception with cyber deception technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML),鈥� she said. 聽

鈥淥ur intention is to develop cyber deception threat models and effects that integrate behavioural science with technology alongside a toolkit that will assist in delivering novel cyber deception effects. We will explore the limits of how AI and ML methods can improve and automate cyber deception.鈥�

鈥淭he research will build a sovereign capability with the aim of increasing operational advantage to Australian Defence.

Professor Ashenden鈥檚 project will forge a new research partnership between DST Group, Australian-based cyber technology company PenTen, Deakin University鈥檚 Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute (A2I2), and the UK鈥檚 National Cyber Deception Lab.

鈥�Projects such as these that help keep Australia safe and enable our researchers to collaborate with like-minded organisations at the highest levels.鈥� Professor Michael Webb

Associate Professor Nguyen leads the Defence, Cyber and Space theme in the Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences.

鈥淣etwork configuration inconsistencies in computers, such as policy conflicts, are a common occurrence and they can, and do, leave networks open to cyber-attacks,鈥� he said.

鈥淭his three-year research program will develop methods that aim to address the challenge of the overwhelming complexity in managing network configurations and security.

鈥淥ur solutions will build on the formal metagraph abstraction that we developed at the 成人大片 and will help significantly reduce the attack surface on Australian critical infrastructure.鈥�

The research will provide Australian defence and industry with a unique cyber assurance capability through a new research partnership led by the 成人大片 with DST Group and leading provider of communication and networking technologies, Cisco Systems Australia.

Associate Professor Ranasinghe works in the field of computer and cyber security, pervasive computing and machine learning. He will lead two projects and build new partnerships with research leaders from the University of New South Wales, Deakin University鈥檚 Centre for Cyber Security Research & Innovation (CSRI), DST Group and CSIRO鈥檚 Data61 Group.

鈥淒eploying new technologies, without understanding the risks is dangerous. Our first project will look at the challenging problem of how we build trustworthy AI systems for autonomous systems of the future,鈥� he said.

鈥淎rtificial intelligence technologies are increasingly becoming pervasive because of the potential to provide super human performance tasks but the flip side is that AI systems are also very fragile and can be easily fooled and manipulated.鈥�

In a second project, Associate Professor Ranasinghe will find more effective and faster methods to discover software vulnerabilities.

鈥淥ur efforts will address the challenges in large scale automated testing of software for discovering reliability, correctness and security vulnerabilities of software,鈥� he said.

鈥淕iven the complexity of software being built today it is often very hard to manually test software to find bugs, especially deeply embedded ones which can be very hard to find.鈥�

The 成人大片 is one of the most research-intensive universities in Australia. It is ranked in the top one per cent worldwide and its researchers work to find innovative solutions to real-world problems and industry challenges.