ECU accommodates one of the world’s foremost cyber security research and teaching groups and has been recognised by the Federal Government as one of only two academic centres of cyber security excellence in Australia.

ECU currently delivers a bespoke suite of cyber security awareness, skills training packages, and research programs through the team based at the Security Research Institute. SRI is housed with a purpose-built facility on ECUs Joondalup campus that is accredited to SECRET and rapidly upgradeable to full SCIF status. The ECU cyber security team work closely with critical infrastructure operators, the WA Police, WA Auditor General, the AFP, the WA Corruption and Crime Commission, national security providers and others with specialised training research, monitoring, intrusion detection and forensic requirements.

Further supporting ECU’s extraordinary global reputation in cyber security, ECU’s Joondalup Campus is home to the Commonwealth and industry funded ($147m) Cyber Security Research Centre and the WA node of AustCyber.