SMU will collaborate with Singapore's National Research Foundation (NRF) and Israel's Tel Aviv University's Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Centre (TAU-ICRC) on two cybersecurity research projects. The first project will look at how to characterise the interdependency of cyber-attacks, and how to achieve a balance between openness and security when implementing international enforcement actions and sharing technology information to counter cyber-attacks. Led by Principal Investigator Assistant Professor Wang Qiuhong from SMU School of Information Systems (SMU SIS), the research team includes Professor Robert Deng and Assistant Professor Tang Qian from the same school, as well as Professor Yuval Shavitt and Mr Lior Tabansky from TAU.
On the other hand, the second project will address safety and privacy of mobile applications for smart city. The project will design a system that detects anomalous and potentially harmful behaviours in apps and create suitable alerts. By creating a model that captures the characteristics of an app's normal behaviour, it can help to detect violations during runtime, summarise the risk in an informative manner, and give users the opportunity to disallow or approve detected anomalies. The research team will be led by Principal Investigator Associate Professor David Lo from SMU SIS, and include Associate Professor Gao Debin from the same school, as well as senior lecturers Dr Shahar Maoz, Dr Iran Toch, and Dr Eran Tromer from TAU.