Cybersecurity for Business Applications: Futureproofing Organizations, People, and Systems

Cybersecurity for Business Applications: Futureproofing Organizations, People, and Systems

Abstract: This talk will explore the impact of recent cyberattacks on businesses and their consequences. Emerging technologies and tools that organisations can use to protect themselves against advanced threats will be discussed. The people aspect will focus on the skills and knowledge needed to make smart technical and business decisions to prevent attacks and succeed as a cybersecurity professional. Regarding systems, the design of modern business applications will be covered, emphasising the importance of distributed and cloud-based architectures. The presentation will review various tools, techniques, and skills crucial for cybersecurity. This talk aims to provide valuable technical insights and practical advice for anyone interested in cybersecurity.

Gowri is a senior lecturer at the School of Information Systems. He began his career at QUT as a research fellow in the Trusted Networks Lab, School of Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), under the mentorship of Prof. Raja Jurdak. Prior to joining QUT,  he was a postdoctoral researcher at Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California (USC), where he was associated with Autonomous Networks Research Group (ANRG) and Center for Cyber-Physical System and the Internet-of-Things (CCI) under the mentorship of Prof. Bhaskar Krishnamachari. Gowri’s research interests are aroundcybersecurity, service computing, IoT, and distributed systems, with a focus on problems related to performance, automation, trust, and scalability. He has received best papers awards as an author or co-author at the following venues:

• Best Student Paper Award as a co-author at the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM) for A Crowd-Based Image Learning Framework Using Edge Computing for Smart City, September 2019.
• Best Paper Award as a co-author at 14th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous) for Selective jamming of LoRaWAN using commodity hardware, November 2017.
• Best Paper Award as a co-author at First International EAI Conference on Emerging Technologies for Developing Countries (AFRICATEK) for Developing the IoT to support the health sector: a case study from Kikwit, DR Congo, March 2017.
• Best Paper Award as the first author at 19th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) for Building dynamic and