The Research Committee of the Faculty of Media & Knowledge Sciences (MAKS) a research seminar entitled 'The good the bad the ugly - small consumer drones'
Date: 7 November 2019
Time: from 12:15 to 14:00
Venue: MKS414.
Date: 7 November 2019
Time: from 12:15 to 14:00
Venue: MKS414.
Professor Craig Valli the Director of the Security Research Institute at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Western Australia (WA) was the speaker.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UVAs) in particular consumer drones have presented and continue to present significant security issues for us all; one of the most famous being Gatwick's closure which stranded 140 000 passengers, a significant economic impact. They are routinely used for the distribution of contraband (drugs, banned substances), covert delivery, surveillance (legal and illegal) and in some cases as improvised weapons delivery systems taking out Abrams M1 tanks in active warfare.
The talk covered some of the issues associated with drones, looking at legal frameworks or lack thereof, or when a legal framework exists, the lack of resources allocated to enforce the law as well as possible technical countermeasures. Professor Valli focused on current research into drones at a forensic examination level, technical countermeasures (tracking and intercession) and legal/enforcement level at ECU.
Professor Valli has over 30 years’ experience in the ICT Industry, and regularly consults with industry and government, conducting research on securing networks and critical infrastructures, detection of network borne threats, forensic analysis of cyber security incidents, network security and digital forensics. He has worked in the education and research sector his entire life, initially within the secondary sector teaching ICT. In addition to this, Prof. Valli was part owner and director of one of Perth’s first Internet Service providers (Global Data Access) in 1995. Then, focusing on a new direction in his career he re-entered postgraduate study, completing a Masters of Management Information Systems in 2000 (Deans List) and that same year commenced work at ECU, holding various positions including Lecturer and Head of School for the School of Computer and Security Science, before accepting his current position of Director of the ECU Security Research Institute in 2012. That same year, he was made a Professor of Digital Forensics. Prof. Valli and his team led the bid for the now successful, 140 million seven year Cyber Security Co-operative Research Centre (CSCRC) headquartered in WA.
Prof. Valli is a member of the High Tech Crime Investigators Association (Australian Chapter), the INTERPOL Cyber Crime Experts Group and also Digital Forensics Expert Group, a member of AISA and IEEE and is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society. He serves on several cyber security related conference committees and journal editorial boards, committees and journal editorial boards.