Canada's research leader in cybersecurity

Our vision is to become one of the leading training and research institutes in Canada by 2021, renowned for its excellence in conducting cutting edge research in cybersecurity.

Our members’ research is among the best in the world, with datasets that are used internationally for security testing and malware prevention.

Through partnerships among academia, industry and government we are developing transformative solutions to the growing threats and challenges in the multi-disciplinary field of cybersecurity. Our mission is to contribute to Canadian society by being a transformational leader in cybersecurity through problem solving, quality research undertakings, and intellectual property generation.

Researchers

• Dr. Rongxing Lu, Security, Privacy, Cryptography, IoT Security, Big Data Security
• Dr. Kalikinkar Mandal, Cryptography, Security and Privacy
• Dr. Saqib Hakak, Cybersecurity, Data mining, Cloud/IoT Computing, Emerging Technologies
• Dr. Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity
• Dr. Sajjad Dadkhah, Cybersecurity, Digital multimedia Security, NLP, IoT Security, ML Security
• Dr. Windhya Rankothge, Cybersecurity Risk Management, Cybersecurity Compliance Standards Frameworks
• Dr. Kwasi Boakye-Boateng, Smart Grid Security, Trust, Threat Intelligence Sharing, Substation Security
• Dr. Xichen Zhang, Data Mining in Cybersecurity, Big Data Analytics, Business Analytics
• Dr. Suprio Ray, Database Systems, Big Data Systems, Spatiotemporal Databases, Scalable Data Science
• Rodney Cooper, Cryptography

Areas of research

• Internet of Things (IoT) Security
• Operational Technology (OT) Security
• Big Security Data Analytics
• Security Data Visualization
• Security Analysis and Risk Management
• Intrusion Detection and Prevention
• Malware Analysis and Attribution
• Mobile Malware Detection and Mitigation
• Cryptography
• Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
• Network Security
• Healthcare Informatics Security
• Critical Infrastructure Protection
• Human-Centric Cybersecurity
• Cloud Security and Privacy

Recent and ongoing projects

• Security-oriented cross-correlation analysis of log data with Fibre Centre
• ACES, an anti-child exploitation system for Bulletproof Solutions, Inc.
• Risk analysis and log data analytics for IBM
• High-speed DDOS attack detection with Heimdall Networks
• Botnet detection, analysis and visualization with IBM, Communications Research Centre Canada, the RCMP and the University of Victoria
• Simulation of network attacks with IBM