Dr Atif Ahmad

Associate Professor and Deputy Director for the Academic Centre of Cyber Security Excellence at the University of Melbourne.

Atif is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing & Information Systems, University of Melbourne. He serves as Deputy Director for the Academic Centre of Cyber Security Excellence and leads a unique team of Cybersecurity Management researchers drawn from information systems, business administration, security intelligence, and information warfare.

Atif’s research looks at how organisations protect their information resources. He has published extensively in cybersecurity incident response and crisis management, strategy and risk, and policy and training. Atif has published over 100 scholarly articles in cybersecurity including 20 journal articles ranked in Q1, the top quartile of quality. A number of these have been featured in high-quality, high-impact journals such as the International Journal of Information Management, Computers & Security, the European Journal of Information Systems and the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.

Atif has been awarded grants in excess of AUD$5M from the Australian Research Council, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Australian Department of Defence, the Australian Department of Education, Skills and Employment, the Oceania Cyber Security Centre, and various industry partners.

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