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David Holmes

David is a Cyber Security CRC/CSIRO Data61 scholarship PhD Candidate from the Edith Cowan University (ECU), Security Research Institute (SRI) in Perth, Western Australia. David's PhD project focuses upon the semantic modelling of digital twins and the application of machine reasoning for cybersecurity defence automation.

David also has an active research interest in the domain of Space and Inter Planetary Network (IPN) and Disrupted Tolerant Networking (DTN) communications.

David comes to the research environment with Master of Cybersecurity, and Master of Network Technology degrees, and extensive experience in private enterprise, where, as a network engineer, he worked for over 25 years in Australia and in other countries around the world providing business end-user network field technical support.

Overview of thesis

Abstract: The convergence of the Industry 4.0 ecosystem and Digital Twin technology presents new cybersecurity challenges and opportunities. This research project will focus on applications such as enhancing cyber-resilience during system design, improving the efficiency of security breach response, and increasing the speed of cyber defence by replacing today’s human in the loop model with “AI in the loop” designs.

Novelty: of this research is in creating enabling technology in the form of semantically enhanced digital twins together with design processes and technology to support their continued development.

Aim: The aim of this PhD project is to apply artificial intelligence technologies to automate the interpretation and automated reasoning response to a cybersecurity incident by directing the behaviour of the system components and the environmental in which they operate.

Method: Design Science methodology.

Outcome: The project output will generate a semantically rich narration thereby making it capable of being ingested by a reasoning engine for interaction determination and analysis, the result of a cybersecurity incident response.

Qualifications

  • Master of Cyber Security, ECU (2018-2021)
  • Master of Network Technology, ECU (2009-2013)

Research

Publication(s)

  • 2021: Digital Twins and Cyber Security - Solution or Challenge

Research Interests

  • Semantic modelling of digital twins
  • Docker technologies
  • Blockchain technologies

Past Research employment history

  • 2020 - 2020: Research Assistant, ECU SRI

Other work

  • 1996 - 2020: Network Engineer, New Zealand and Australia

Scholarships and Awards

  • Scholarship (PhD) – Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre

Sponsors

  • Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre
  • CSIRO’s Data61
  • Edith Cowan University

Supervisors

Prof. Helge Janicke (Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre)
Dr. Surya Nepal (CSIRO’s Data61)

Contact

David Holmes
PhD student
School of Science, JO15.208
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