Post Quantum Cryptography Era in Australia
CSCRCs are Commonwealth-funded collaborations between industry, government, and academia to develop cyber security capability and capacity to help keep Australia safe. Several projects are being run at QUT as part of this extended body. SOCRATES and SCATES are two of them that are currently active. SOCRATES aims to develop post-quantum cryptographic solutions for Enterprise Systems in Australia, whereas SCATES aims to improve Australia's cyber security posture in the farming industry.
One category of cryptographic algorithms, known as public key cryptography or asymmetric cryptography are based on hard computational problems in mathematics, such as factoring very large numbers. These problems can be solved efficiently using emerging quantum computers. Hence, current public-key cryptosystems that rely on these complex mathematical problems are not quantum-safe.
These algorithms are currently used widely for digital signatures, entity authentication and in key exchange algorithms, underpinning many business operations, including e-commerce transactions. In 2018, Mosca [25] noted that assessment of organisational resilience against quantum attacks required understanding of three aspects: (1) the security shelf life of information assets, (2) the migration time to quantum resistant systems, and (3) the time remaining before quantum computers break the algorithms currently in use.
Determining the first aspect is within the capacity of an organisation or enterprise. The second and third aspects present greater challenges and require expertise beyond most organisations. Performing such a transition at scale while maintaining business continuity is therefore a major challenge. The time remaining for use of current algorithms is not known but considered likely within a decade or two. This motivates exploration of what transition to quantum resistant systems involves for organisations, and the challenges associated with that transition.
CyberSecurity Resilience of the Australian university
RMIT CCSRI working with in collaboration with the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment (the Department) along with the University Foreign Interference Taskforce and its members to deliver a solution to enhance cyber security across Australia’s university sector. The project is building on the previous work of the University Foreign Interference Taskforce (UFIT) in developing the Guidelines to Counter Foreign Interference in the Australian University Sector (the Guidelines).
Based on the objective, the specific aims are;
The deliverables of the project are: - 1. Establishment of a Trusted and nationally recognised Cyber Security Forum: -- includes the design, development and delivery of a sector-led, nationally recognised, and trusted forum to advance cyber-resilience, particularly in the context of foreign interference, across the university sector.
- 2. Developing standardised threat and countermeasure sharing mechanisms that are sector-specific to enhance their capabilities and resilience to contemporary threats, threat actors and responses to combat risks by:
-- Developing a standardised two-way mechanism amongst universities and Government to share threat intelligence, countermeasure best practice and threat models
-- Developing a standardised threat model for universities to assist in guiding investment and cyber security uplift; and
--• Developing a comprehensive suite of sharable best practice guidelines or “blueprints” that draw from existing Government risk information (e.g. Essential 8, Australian Information Security Manual, Practical Guidelines) that can be applied proportionate to each universities level of risk.
Status: Active (Industry part Completed)
Partner: Transport and Main Road (TMR), QLD and iMOVE CRC (2019-2020).
This research based development work focuses on ’Vehicle to Vulnerable Road Users (V2VRU) interactions’ for achieving Road Safety using existing technologies and also evolving Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. As the role of the Project Manager (PM), my responsibility involves maintaining all party collaboration and also conducting research and plan, design and development.
This Proof-of-Concept (PoC) project aims to develop a VRU road safety solution using emerging communication and technolgoical system to reduce collisions and enhance driver awareness of potential conflicts with people riding bicycles/escooter etc. The specific objectives for the project are as follows:
- Determine V2VRU system requirements
- Develop a PoC system
- Perform testing and demonstrations
This project is bound to NDA.
Status: Inactive (Completed)
An UI/UX based Industry project focuses on creating a platform that stores memories of user so that it can be viewed later by future generations. A team with Nine active memebers from QUT and Aureolin Group tried to find an innovative way to preserve the memories of people and share them with the recipient after the demise of one who created the memories. The design and development challenges was to align rythimatically a set of features and set of instruction.
In this innovation, the user would create an account to instruct a number of services and at some point, they will be conveyed to the recipient. There is a social impact of it that we believed will create love and affections towards the person who sends the memories. Also, it helps in creating memorable moments and the recipient feel special. The final artifacts of this project will collect, preserve, and share memories according to user preference. The project outcome is fruitful, and at any point, the platform may launch. Note that, the whole work is under NDA, thus I am unable to share the technical details.
Status: Active Proposal
The primary objective of this research is twofold. Firstly, identifying the feasibility and effectiveness of CIoT platform-based UAV (i.e., drone) services and their use cases. This also includes service designing and modeling from similar research and models, software engineering, and distributed systems in consideration of service functionalities, behavior, and quality. Secondly, the recommendation and service composition of drone services for commercial applications as DaaS...
Based on the objective, the specific aims are;
- 1. To design a novel Drone as a Service (DaaS) framework following standard SOA and web services principle in the CIoT domain.
- 2. To conduct service selection in quality-based standard ways and mesh-up different operations across multiple services to form a composed service.
- 3. To establish trust, reputation, and security across the boundaries of DaaS technologies.
Over the past few years, we have experienced great technological advancements in the information and communication field, which has significantly contributed to reshaping the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) concept. Evolving from the platform of a collection of sensors aiming to collect data, the data exchanged paradigm among vehicles is shifted from the local network to the cloud. With the introduction of cloud and edge computing along with ubiquitous 5G mobile network, it is expected to see the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in data processing and smart decision imminent. CIoV, which is abbreviated from Cognitive Internet of Vehicle, is one of the recently proposed architectures of the technological evolution in transportation, and it has amassed great attention. It introduces cloud-based artificial intelligence and machine learning into the transportation system. This research focuses to identify the future expectations of CIoV and it's security issues. Based on this idea, a conference paper is published so far, this can be found here.
Status: Active
The primary objective of this research is twofold. Firstly, identifying the feasibility and effectiveness of CIoT platform-based UAV (i.e., drone) services and their use cases. This also includes service designing and modeling from similar research and models, software engineering, and distributed systems in consideration of service functionalities, behavior, and quality. Secondly, the recommendation and service composition of drone services for commercial applications as DaaS...
This project has engaged with companies from the cycling, automotive and smart city industries to create communications solutions for drivers and vulnerable road users (VRUs).
