The Industry Advisory Board (IAB) is an external reference committee of the Cyber Security Research and Innovation Centre (CSRIC).
It provides CSRIC with contemporary advice and information from the business world regarding emerging security trends and ensures that research conducted at the centre continues to be viable, robust and relevant to current industry needs.
IAB provides advice with regards to:
The relevance of research conducted at CSRIC to the industry
Research progress and milestones
Market trends and business opportunities
Opportunities for collaboration at local and international levels
Research expansion and partnership between CSRIC, the industry and professional bodies, and assisting CSRIC in the promotion of such activities
IAB also provides feedback on progress in research and other matters as required. Meetings are held biannually. Members of the IAB are drawn from both the industry and academia. Current members of IAB are:
Mr David Spence, Chairman, National Narrowband Network
Dr Atif Ahmad, Senior Academic, Melbourne University
Dr Sean Maynard, Senior Academic, Melbourne University
Dr Amir Vahid Dastjerdi, Manager, PwC
Dr Mohamed Elyas, Coordinator IAB, Research Fellow, Holmes Institute
Dr Shuiyin Liu, Research Fellow, Holmes Institute
Mr Stephen Nagle, Chair IAB, CEO Holmes Institute
Mr David M Spence
David Spence is well known in the internet and telecommunications space. He has been CEO, a Director and Chairman of over 25 Companies, from startups to 10 listed ASX Companies as well as Chairing PayPal Australia for the last 8 years.
Currently, David is Chair of
DiscoveryAG – unlisted Agtech business
Canopus Networks – unlisted AI business
NNNco – an IOT communications business
PayPal Australia – registered bank payments business
IOTAA – the Australian IOT Alliance
He is also on the Board of
AllthingsEncypted – a cybersecurity enablement business
Turratech – an App development business
And serves as an Industry Advisor – The Holmes Cyber Security Research and Innovation Centre
AGL Limited
David is a passionate yachtsman who has sailed in many international ocean races.
He is married with two children.
Dr Sean Maynard
Sean B. Maynard is an academic based at the School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Australia. Sean has over 25 years of teaching experience at the undergraduate, postgraduate and executive training levels. His teaching specialities include Information Systems, Information Systems strategy and governance, database, and data warehousing. He received his PhD in Information Security from the University of Melbourne in 2010. His research interests are in the management of information security specifically relating to security policy, security culture, security governance, security strategy, security analytics, and incident response.
He has also published in the area of decision support systems, and business analytics, particularly in capability maturity. He has over 80 publications. His research has been published in high-impact journals such as Computers & Security, the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology and the International Journal of Information Management as well as leading conferences such as the International Conference on Information Systems.
For more information, please visit https://www.seanmaynard.me/
Dr Atif Ahmad
Atif is an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne’s School of Computing & Information Systems where he serves as Deputy Director of the Academic Centre of Cyber Security Excellence. Atif leads a unique team of Cybersecurity Management researchers drawn from information systems, business administration, security intelligence, and information warfare. He has authored over 100 scholarly articles in cybersecurity management and received over AUD$4M in grant funding.
Atif is an Associate Editor for the leading IT security journal, Computers & Security. He has previously served as a cybersecurity consultant for WorleyParsons, Pinkerton and SinclairKnightMerz. Atif is a Certified Protection Professional with the American Society for Industrial Security. For more information, please visit https://www.atifahmad.me/
Dr Amir Vahid Dastjerdi
Amir specialises in the areas of AI, IoT, cyber and risk Big Data analytics, and software architectures and has more than 12 years of experience in the IT industry with 10 years focused on building cloud-based products, data management solutions and advanced analytics.
Amir co-authored a number of research papers and books including “Internet of Things Principles and Paradigms” which was published by Morgan Kaufmann, Elsevier. He is a regular contributor at leading conferences on topics including algorithmic intelligence, IoT, Big data processing, and cloud computing.
Dr Mohammed Elyas
Dr Elyas is a research fellow and founding member of Holmes Institute’s Cyber Security Research and Innovation Centre (CSRIC). Dr Elyas is leading a number of research projects at CSRIC with a focus on the security and privacy of the Internet of Things (IoT). Dr Elyas is also a lecturer at the Department of Business Information Systems at Holmes Institute where he teaches and coordinates computer programming. Additionally, Dr Elyas is currently the Chair for the Staff Research and Development Committee, the Chair for Human Research Ethics Committee, the Coordinator for the CSRIC’s Industry Advisory Board and the Coordinator for Holmes Staff Training Program. He is also a member of the Executive Council of IoT Alliance Australia, which is the peak body for IoT in the country.
Dr Elyas completed an exhaustive scientific review where the major security and privacy challenges faced by the Internet of Things were identified. Based on the findings, a cybersecurity awareness program for the Internet of Things was developed. Dr Elyas currently takes part in various collaborative projects with the industry including a film-based cybersecurity awareness program with Oceania Cyber Security Centre and Melbourne University and a cybersecurity certification program for LoRaWan devices with NNN Co.
Apart from research, Dr Elyas has strong exposure to industry practices in the cybersecurity space stemming from a two-year work experience at a managed security services firm. Dr Elyas’s research has been published in high-impact journals such as Computers & Security and Journal of Computer Information Systems. His research areas of interest include IoT security and privacy, information security policy and standards, and cybersecurity awareness.
Dr Shuiyin Liu
Dr Shuiyin Liu is a Research Fellow at the Department of Business Information Systems, Holmes Institute. He is leading the technological theme of Holmes Institute’s Cyber Security Research and Innovation Centre (CSRIC). He received his PhD degree in 2011 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London, UK. Between 2012 and 2018, he was with Monash University, Australia, as a research fellow in the field of information security and wireless communications. His research was supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC).
Dr Shuyin Liu currently takes part in several research projects with National Narrowband Network Communications (NNN Co.), including developing lightweight cryptosystems for the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. He also collaborates with researchers at Monash University, working on communications technology, wireless security, and coding techniques for IoT communications.
His research has been published in high-impact journals such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He is a Member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE Communications Society, and IEEE Information Theory Society. He was a Technical Program Committee Member for 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications in China. He was the Local Arrangement Chair of 2016 Australian Communications Theory Workshop at Melbourne. He was selected as 2017 Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. His research interests include information security, cryptography, wireless communications, IoT, and coding theory.
Mr Stephen Nagle
Mr Stephen Nagle
Stephen Nagle has been involved in the Australian Higher Education sector since 1988 as an Executive Director of the Holmes Education Group. Previous to that time he worked as an interpreter/translator in Hamburg, Germany.
As the CEO of Holmes Institute, he has been instrumental in establishing Holmes as a leading private higher education provider with campuses in Victoria, NSW and QLD. Over a 20 year period, Mr Nagle has supervised the accreditation of 4 Masters degrees and 4 Bachelor degrees across a diverse platform including Business Administration, Fashion and Information Systems.
Following extensive research in Israel and Australia, Mr Nagle established the Cyber Security Research and Innovation Centre with funding from Holmes Institute in 2018. The centre is designed to complement the Information Systems Faculty at Holmes. High level research in cryptography and security provides masters’ students with the opportunity to interact with research fellows whilst carrying out project work as part of their degrees. Mr Nagle is also actively involved in the IoTAA (Internet of Things Association of Australia).