Cybersecurity

We’ve developed technologies to combine real-time information gathering and analysis from communication systems themselves, and the broader information environment.

The leading edge in cybersecurity

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We have identified critical ways of detecting potential threats and preparing the most effective responses to maintain operating systems and public safety.

Our capabilities include:

  • Network security and cryptography
  • Anomaly and network intrusion detection
  • Authentication and authorisation
  • Distributed computing and peer-to-peer networks
  • Network fault diagnosis including machine learning and artificial intelligence
  • Information security management
  • Network auditing and accounting.

Case study

RAPID surveillance of social media

The University of Melbourne has developed RAPID, a real-time analytics platform for interactive data-mining. This has been created to identify issues of national security, such as emerging social unrest or attempts to manipulate the information environment (fake news).

DST wanted a smart way of collecting and filtering tweets. Dr Aaron Harwood and Professor Shanika Karunasekera have come up with smart algorithms including a topic-tracking algorithm that actively chases topics rather than just finding them under hashtags. Dr Lucia Falzon, Chief Defence Scientist Fellow, Defence Science and Technology Group