The Cyber Centre is a research centre that's multidisciplinary, brings together researchers from across the university, to deal with the complex security problems we face today. 

The focus relates to the organisational technology and human aspects of cybersecurity. I'm director of the RMIT Centre for Cybersecurity Research and Innovation.

Our aims to bring people from different expertise, from engineering, computing, and mathematics to tackle these complicated problems of cybersecurity. 

I'm also the research director of the cyber security centres at RMIT. The centre is really keen not just to do research, but also to have an impact of research.

The industry has problems, but is lacking of development the new technology.

 So what we are doing, we are working with the industry to take the technology to another level and to come up with innovation and new products that can basically make the company very competitive. 

When you talk about cybersecurity, you can't consider it just from an Australian perspective.

You have to think of it from a global perspective. An important part of that is having global partners that you trust around the world that you undertake that research with. 

RMIT very much is a global university. We have our two campuses in Vietnam. We have our campus in Barcelona with RMIT York. I think some of the major successes is really to establish collaboration.

The engagement with industry and different stakeholders is the key to the successes of CCRI. The advantage of partnering with our research centre is the fact that we can bring together multidisciplinary teams of researchers to solve real life problems and that multidisciplinary applied approach to research is so key, especially when you talk about cybersecurity.

So getting funding is critical because it allows our members to carry out research and to get the support to develop the new. 

It's not just about money, but it's really about carrying out research to the end, not just from writing papers, like traditionally is done by the researcher, but also to connect it to the next stage with high impact research.

That's really important. That's why funding is really important for us. We've done a lot in terms of cybersecurity and gender. 

Very proud of that because again it's research that was not undertaken in an Australian context that provided meaningful information for government. The research makes a difference. There was an issue about determining how many people, how many women worked in the cybersecurity domain? 

Because the government needed that information from a policy perspective.