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Small business has big future thanks to Defence innovation funding

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Founders of cyber security business InfoSect, Silvio Cesare and Kylie McDevitt.

Funding through Defence's Next Generation Technologies Fund has helped a small cyber security start-up grow its business from being largely a training provider, to one where almost half its income now comes from research and development.

Deep Learning for Cyber Vulnerability Discovery: NGTF Project Scoping Study

There has been some work in recent years on investigating the use of machine learning (ML) techniques in order to assist software vulnerability discovery. Motivated by the spectacular success of deep learning (DL) approaches in fields such as computer vision and natural language processing, we propose to study the application of DL techniques to software vulnerability discovery. 

Covert Channels over Network Traffic: Methods, Metrics, and Mitigations

This technical note is a review of current open literature regarding covert timing channels over network traffic.

A Review of Machine Learning in Software Vulnerability Research

In this report the use of Machine Learning (ML) techniques in Software Vulnerability Research (SVR) is investigated, discussing previous and current efforts to illustrate how ML is utilised by academia and industry in this area.

DST cyber team takes out three South Australian iAwards

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DST's Trustworthy Systems team.
DST’s Trustworthy Systems team has taken out three iAwards in South Australia.

Chief Defence Scientist joins the conversation on cyber

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Cybersecurity has been identified as a research priority due to Australia's increasing dependence on cyberspace for national security
Chief Defence Scientist Dr Alex Zelinsky has outlined key priorities for the future of cybersecurity research in Australia.

Cyber security

Angela Billard discusses DST's work in the area of cyber security.

Digital Video Guard

Cyber attacks on government and private organisations have skyrocketed. DST Group has developed the Digital Video Guard for protection.

ICT award for DSTO’s digital video guard

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Three of the developers of the Digital Video Guard, (L-R) John Shield, Mark Beaumont and Brad Hopkins, with SA Premier Jay Weatherill.
Three of the developers of the Digital Video Guard, (L-R) John Shield, Mark Beaumont and Brad Hopkins, with SA Premier Jay Weatherill.
A digital encryption technology developed by the former DSTO has won a prestigious South Australian ICT Award.

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