RMIT’s Discipline of Cybersecurity and Software Systems focuses on the key issues in large-scale computing infrastructure. We investigate how to create secure, high-performance online systems that balance robust privacy with sophisticated functionality.
Cybersecurity is a vital issue for the online world, and RMIT’s School of Computing Technology has been showing global leadership on the topic for over a decade. We have expertise on a range of security issues, from detecting intrusions and malware, through privacy preservation to addressing human factors that can enhance or compromise technical security systems. RMIT is one of the partners in the Oceania Cyber Security Centre that provides leadership on cybersecurity across the Indo-Pacific region.
A second strand of our research is on smart sensing, understanding how to exploit not only individual sensors but complex networks of thousands of sensors to provide better social and economic services. This is ties with our long-standing investigations into the infrastructure for large online systems and the exchange of real-time information at city scale and beyond.
A final strand of research is on efficient and reliable large-scale systems, including the use of common underlying transactions such as blockchain, and processing methods such as peer-to-peer, fog and edge computing. This domain also considers strategic problems such as the capture of complex requirements through requirements engineering and improving sustainability through reducing energy and hardware requirements.
The CSS discipline has an extensive high-profile set of collaborations with industry and government. Our partners have included the Australian Government, Digital Finance CRC and Novatti. CSS’s researchers have a strong track-record of delivering sophisticated real-world solutions that have a direct impact on the IT of organisations of all sizes. We have a team who are dedicated to finding solutions to the genuinely wicked technical challenges that large-scale computing brings in terms of both security and performance. If you want to answer those sorts of problems too, and would either like to undertake research as a PhD student or partner with us as a government body or commercial company to solve the problems you face, contact us for a fuller discussion.
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