Cyberspace - Strategic Cyberspace Science

CSCSS will promote original research relating to cyberspace science, applied using cyber-centric based trans-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches, and addressing diverse and important global issues at the strategic level ranging from critical infrastructure protection (CIP) and the resilience of CIP systems, to cyber warfare/defence and terrorism.

The Science of Cyberspace is a multidisciplinary study of the first, nearly ubiquitous, man-made environment - the fifth domain - in which we seek understanding of its impact.

Our Core Objectives

• Promote advancement of cyberspace sciences through but not limited to cyber security, information intelligence, cyber warfare, reliability, resilience, and survivability, and their applications to cyberspace, cyber defence, and information assurance
• Promote cross-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and trans-disciplinary strategic level studies on globally critical cyberspace/cyber security issues

Areas of Focus

• Cyber Situational Awareness
• Distributed Real-Time Cyberspace Discovery Analysis
• Real-Time Cyber Knowledge Discovery for Anomaly and Attack Detection
• Active Response and Forensics for Cyber Defence
• Vulnerability and Malware Analysis
• Software Reverse Engineering and Analysis
• Intelligent Insider Threat Detection and Prevention
• Embedded Device Security/Medical Device Security
• Control Systems Security of the Energy Infrastructure (SCADA)

Topics include, but are not limited to

• Cyber warfare, strategic information warfare, and information intelligence
• Risk analysis and modelling of terrorism threats
• Survivability, survivable network systems, and critical infrastructure protection
• Reliability, resilience, and fault tolerance of software and networks
• Reliability, security, and survivability of cloud computing and/or ubiquitous computing
• Network science of survivable network systems and emergency response networks
• Complexity science approaches to cyber warfare, survivability, response, and threat management
• Development and advanced software behaviour computation technologies for verification of software function and security properties
• Simulation/game and theoretic approaches to cyber security, survivability, and emergency management
• Swarm intelligence, computational intelligence, and survival analysis approaches to reliability, resilience, and survivability analyses
• Survivability and resilience of financial and banking systems