What are our solutions to global security threats?
No matter where people reside or work in the world, every citizen deserves to feel safe. From preventative approaches to complex global security threats to improving the reliability of autonomous vehicles, our researchers collaborate with industry and government to meet our security needs.
Find out more about our research in cyber security and discover how we're delivering positive and lasting impact for a better future.
Advanced vehicle simulation
The Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation’s Genesis Simulator is an immersive simulation offered via a 360-degree, five-metre-high screen with variable virtual worlds. The cutting-edge platform supports advanced research into areas such as improving driver safety.
Creating a safer global cyberspace
The Centre for Cyber Resilience and Trust empowers people, organisations and communities to thrive in a digital society. With researchers from each of Deakin’s faculties, we work with more than 20 industry partners to develop innovative cyber security technologies.
Australian pilot training safety
Australia’s first high-G centrifuge simulator, nicknamed CYCLONE, will safely train astronauts and pilots to cope with high levels of acceleration. The system was designed, built and tested by researchers at the Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation.
I do what I do because I firmly believe that cyber security is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century.
Professor Robin Doss
Director of the Centre for Cyber Resilience and Trust
Work with world-leading experts
Our world-class safety and security research is led by true innovators in their fields. Use our 'Find an Expert' tool to get to know some of our experts and what they hope to accomplish going forward.
See how we’re building safe and secure communities
Find out how our researchers are integrating societal, behavioural, political and technological innovations to meet and surpass our security needs.
Technology-based defence solutions
Researchers in the Deakin Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative are developing advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning models to take the noise out of highly complex sensor systems, helping defence personnel avoid information fatigue and focus on critical information for safety and effectiveness.
Promoting peace and cohesion abroad
At the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, our researchers are working closely with Plan International Australia to explore how implementing a peace framework could help ease tensions between Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh.
Advancing safe autonomous driving
Our researchers from the Centre for Cyber Resilience and Trust are developing new platforms and software to support self-driving technologies in vehicles of the future. Ensuring the secure exchange of information between vehicles is key to the success of this technology.
Safety and security at our institutes and centres
Explore all of Deakin’s groundbreaking strategic research in safety and security across our institutes, centres, groups, collaborations and partnerships by visiting our community tool and filtering by ‘building safe and secure communities’.
Explore our faculties and schools
Our researchers are working together to foster a collaborative research approach that unlocks new angles, solutions and ways of thinking. Learn more about the projects and world-class research being led by our faculties.
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