Security, Assurance, Fraud-Prevention For e-Business
(SAFE)
Overview
Security, Assurance, Fraud-prevention for E-business (SAFE) is
a Research Program within SIRCA directed by Rodger Jamieson, Associate
Professor from the University of New South Wales.
This program conducts management and technical research on a range
of security, assurance and fraud-prevention issues focused on the
e-business domain.
Objectives
- Security and control of e-business systems with an emphasis
on the design of secure and auditable systems
- e-Crime, ID fraud, and computer forensics methodologies, legal
issues and tools and techniques
- Assurance of systems, transactions and databases
- Risk management and the identification of risks to e-business
systems
- Risk security and controls within particular domains - e.g.
the financial markets/wholesale banking sector
- Development of tools and techniques to assist management and
auditors in the detection of fraud within e-business systems
- Development of continuous audit/management monitoring and surveillance
systems for e-business
- Trust in e-business
- Privacy within information systems
- Corporate governance security and assurance
- Knowledge management security and assurance
- IS security and assurance education.
Current
& Future Research Programmes
Researchers
Dr
Rodger Jamieson
Dr Rodger Jamieson is an Associate Professor in the School of Information
Systems at the University of NSW and is the director of SEAR
(Security, E-Business, and Assurance Research) group and also
directs the SAFE (Security, Assurance, & Fraud-prevention for
E-Business) Research Program for SIRCA. He is a qualified Chartered
Accountant, member of the Australian Computer Society and an Information
Systems Auditor from the Information System Auditor and Control
Association (USA). He serves on international journal editorial
boards and is involved in teaching and research in the areas of
Information Systems assurance and security, risk management, e-crime
and identity fraud, computer forensics, and electronic commerce.
Tel: +61 2 9385 4414/5320
Fax: +61 2 9662 4061
Email: r.jamieson@unsw.edu.au
Ken Stevens
Ken Stevens is a lecturer in the School of Information Systems
Technology and Management at the University of NSW where he
teaches and researches in the fields of information systems
security and audit. His special research interest in is software
development project risk and is applying risk management theory
to this area. Ken has previously worked as a lecturer at the
Australian National University, and prior to this had extensive
consulting experience in IS audit and security at Arthur Andersen
& Co., Price Waterhouse and Howarth and Howarth.
Greg Stephens
Greg Stephens is a Lecturer in the School of Information Systems, Technology and Management at the University of New South Wales. He lectures in Decision Support Systems, Database and Systems Analysis and Design. His research involves group communications and social networks within organisations, expert systems and audit and security concerns. He has previously worked as an information systems professional and internal auditor at UNSW.
Christine Van Toorn
Christine Van Toorn is Director of the BIT/ISM Cooperative Scholarship
Program at the University of NSW and lectures in the School of Information
Systems, Technology and Management. She was formerly a Manager in
the Computer Audit Assurance Services Group at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu,
and prior to this held several internal IS Audit positions at QBE
Insurance and Tubemakers of Australia. She has many years of experience
in the security and audit of information systems and technology
with a number of major organisations in Australia.

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