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DR ATIF AHMAD



Contact Details

Organization: Information Systems
Position: LECTURER
Email:
Homepage: http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/atif/home.htm
Work: 8344 1396
Fax: 9349 4596
Room: 3.37
Level: 03
Building: 111-117 Barry St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Information Security Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Engineering University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1998
PhD University of Melbourne 31-Aug-2007

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Certified Specialist American Society for Industrial Security Certified Protection Professional 01-Jan-2001

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Research Network for a Secure Australia (RNSA) Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL ARC Networks 01/01/2004
RISK IDENTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES FOR INTERCONNECTED AND INTERDEPENDENT CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES - MELBOURNE EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER GRANT SCHEME 2006 Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Early Career Researcher Grants Scheme

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
MARKET AND TREND ANALYSIS FOR INTERNET SECURITY AND USABILITY Chief Investigator ANZ BANKING GROUP 23/06/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2006

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Risk Management Standards - The Perception of Ease of Use
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 5th Annual Security Conference
    Conference Publication: 5th Annual Security Conference
    Publisher: 5th Annual Security Conference
    Author(s):

Publications in 2005

Conference Publications/Papers

  • An information-centric approach to data security in organizations
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Tencon 2005 - 2005 IEEE Region 10
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Tencon 2005 - 2005 IEEE Region 10
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: Swinburne Press(Melbourne)
    Author(s):
  • Security governance: Its impact on security culture
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 3rd Australian Information Security Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 3rd Australian Information Security Management Conference
    Page numbers: 1-13
    Publisher: School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University (Perth)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • On the importance of protecting critical infrastructure related engineering descriptor information (CIEDI)
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Information Warfare
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 29-37
    Publisher: Edith Cowan University(Churchlands)
    Author(s):
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Towards identifying criteria for the evidential weight of system event logs
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 2nd Australia Computer Network & Information Forensics Conference
    Conference Publication: 2nd Australia Computer Network & Information Forensics Conference - Conference Proceedings
    Page numbers: 40-47
    Publisher: Edith Cowan University(Churchlands)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2003

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Design of a network-access audit log for security monitoring and forensic investigation
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 1st Australian Computer Network Information & Forensics Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 1st Australian Computer Network, Information & Forensics Conference
    Page numbers: 1-7
    Publisher: Edith Cowan University(Churchlands)
    Author(s):
  • Improved event logging for security and forensics: developing audit management infrastructure requirements
    Year: 2003
    Event name: ISOneWorld 2003
    Conference Publication: ISOneWorld Conference: Nurturing Executive Networks
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: The Information Institute (Las Vegas)
    Author(s):
  • Incident handling: where the need for planning is often not recognised
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 1st Australian Computer, Network & Information Forensics Conference 2003
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 1st Australian Computer Network, Information & Forensics Conference
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: Edith Cowan University(Churchlands)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2002

Conference Publications/Papers

  • A top-down approach towards translating organisational security policy directives to system audit configuration
    Year: 2002
    Event name: IFIP TC11 17th International Conference on Information Security
    Conference Publication: Security in the Information Society: Visions and Perspectives
    Page numbers: 55-65
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Norwell)
    Author(s):
  • Firestorm: Exploring the need for a forensic tool for pattern correlation in Windows NT audit logs
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 3rd Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference 2002
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 3rd Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference 2002
    Page numbers: 218-223
    Publisher: We_B Centre, School of Management Information Systems(Churchlands)
    Author(s):
  • The forensic chain-of-evidence model: Improving the process of evidence collection in incident handling procedures
    Year: 2002
    Event name: The 6th Asia Conference on Information Systems
    Conference Publication: The Next E-What? for Business and Communities?
    Page numbers: 1089-1093
    Publisher: The Japan Society for Management Information (JASMIN)(Tokyo)
    Author(s):
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