RMIT to tackle cyber security challenges - ComputerWeekly.com

Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) will open a Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) by the middle of 2020 to tackle the country’s cyber security challenges and plug the talent gap.

The CIC is part of a global network of centres spearheaded by cloud supplier Amazon Web Services (AWS) to drive innovation in the public sector, through collaborations with universities including Arizona State University and Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.


Tapping AWS cloud services, the CIC will bring together students, researchers, government and subject matter experts to build prototypes that address cyber threats, with a focus on enhancing awareness and literacy of three information security pillars – confidentiality, integrity and availability. 


During a media briefing on the sidelines of AWS re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas, RMIT vice-chancellor and president Martin Bean said the CIC would also look at projects beyond cyber security, by tapping expertise at the university’s innovation labs in areas such as healthcare and blockchain.


“There are pockets of innovation in the university deliberately designed to look forward in the world of work, and our belief is that crossovers will mature over time,” said Bean. “We’ll also look at adjacencies with other CICs around the world and start thinking about how we can work together.”


In addition, Bean said there was potential for collaboration between students in RMIT’s main campus in Melbourne and those located at its offshore campus in Vietnam to address cyber security challenges from different perspectives.


Some of the prototype solutions to these challenges could well be commercialised through Activator, RMIT’s accelerator programme ..

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