Associate Professor Dave Ormrod

Enterprise Fellow UniSA STEM

email Dave.Ormrod@unisa.edu.au

Research Degree Supervisor

About me

Dave is an Associate Professor and Enterprise Fellow in Cyber Security with the University of South Australia, with over 25 years of experience across the globe and within multiple Australian government agencies. Dave’s research themes explore cyber-effects, cyber-security, wargaming, modelling and simulation, artificial intelligence, low-earth-orbit satellite constellation cyber-security, cyber threat intelligence, and the underpinnings of social networks and influence activities.

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Research

Research focus

Cognitive Sciences
Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
Engineering
Information and Computing Sciences
Other Information and Computing Sciences

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Chapters

Year	Output
2018	Ormrod, D & Turnbull, B 2018, 'Modeling and simulation approaches', in A Kott & I Linkov (eds), Cyber Resilience of Systems and Networks. Risk, Systems and Decisions, Springer, Switzerland, ch. 8, pp. 171-193.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2024	Hassanin, M, Moustafa, N, Razzak, I, Tanveer, M, Ormrod, D & Slay, J 2024, 'Dynamic hypersphere embedding scale against adversarial attacks', IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, vol. 71, pp. 12475-12486. Open access 1 1
2024	Salim, S, Moustafa, N, Hassanian, M, Ormod, D & Slay, J 2024, 'Deep federated learning-based threat detection model for extreme satellite communications', IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 3853-3867. Open access 13 11
2021	Ormrod, D 2021, 'A stoic cyber meta-ontology - applying stoicism to modern ontology design', Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 48-65. 1 1
2020	Kodalle, T, Ormrod, D, Sample, C & Scott, K 2020, 'A general theory of influence in a DIME/PMESII/ASCOP/IRC2 model', Journal of Information Warfare, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 12-26, ii-iii.
2020	Ormrod, D, Scott, K, Scheinman, L, Kodalle, T, Sample, C, Turnbull, B & Ormrod, A 2020, 'The persuasion game: serious gaming information warfare and influence', Journal of Information Warfare, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 27-45, ii-iv.
2020	Sample, C, Jensen, MJ, Scott, K, McAlaney, J, Fitchpatrick, S, Brockinton, A, Ormrod, D & Ormrod, A 2020, 'Interdisciplinary lessons learned while researching fake news', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 11, no. 11, pp. 1-22. Open access 16 13 8
2019	Ormrod, D & Turnbull, B 2019, 'The modelling and simulation of integrated battlefield cyber-kinetic effects', International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 1-26.
2017	Ormrod, D & Turnbull, B 2017, 'Attrition rates and maneuver in agent-based simulation models', Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 257-272. 9 2
2017	Ormrod, D & Turnbull, B 2017, 'Developing a military cyber maturity model for multi-domain battle mission resilience and success', International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 1-13.
2017	Ormrod, D & Turnbull, B 2017, 'Developing a military cyber maturity model for multi-domain battle mission resilience and success', International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 1-13.
2016	Ormrod, D & Turnbull, B 2016, 'The cyber conceptual framework for developing military doctrine', Defence Studies, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 270-298. 13 2

Conferences

Year	Output
2024	Kriesten, M, Thinyane, M & Ormrod, D 2024, 'Leveraging gamification for cyber threat intelligence for resilience in satellite cyber supply chains', in M Lehto & M Karjalainen (eds), 23rd European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, ECCWS 2024, Academic Conferences International Limited, pp. 712-719. Open access
2021	Ormrod, D, Slay, J & Ormrod, A 2021, 'Cyber-worthiness and cyber-resilience to secure low earth orbit satellites', in J Lopez, A Siraj & K Perumalla (eds), 16th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (ICCWS 2021), ACI - Academic Conferences International, pp. 257-266.
2019	Kodalle, T, Sample, C, Ormrod, D & Scott, K 2019, 'Thoughts about a general theory of influence in a dime/pmesii/ascop/irc2 model', in T Cruz & P Simoes (eds), 18th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, ECCWS 2019, Curran Associates, pp. 801-810, xvii-xix.
2019	Mersinas, K, Sobb, T, Sample, C, Bakdash, JZ & Ormrod, D 2019, 'Training data and rationality', European Conference on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (ECIAIR), Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, pp. 225-232. 2 1
2019	Ormrod, D & Scott, K 2019, 'Strategic foresight and resilience through cyber-wargaming', in T Cruz & P Simoes (eds), 18th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, ECCWS 2019, Curran Associates, pp. 319-327, xvii-xviii. 2 1
2019	Ormrod, D, Scott, K, Scheinman, L, Kodalle, T, Sample, C & Turnbull, B 2019, 'The persuasion game: developing a serious game based model for information warfare and influence studies', in T Cruz & P Simoes (eds), 18th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, ECCWS 2019, Curran Associates, pp. 328-337. 2
2019	Turnbull, B, Ormrod, D, Moustafa, N & Micallef, N 2019, 'Agile technology development to improve scenario-based learning exercises', in T Cruz & P Simoes (eds), 18th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, ECCWS 2019, Curran Associates, pp. 518-526, xvii-xix. 1 1
2018	Ormrod, D & Turnbull, B 2018, 'Cyber resilience as an information operations action to assure the mission', in A Josang (ed.), 17th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, ECCWS 2018, Curran Associates, pp. 343-350, xiv.
2017	Ormrod, D & Turnbull, B 2017, 'A framework for the modelling and simulation of battlespace integrated cyber-kinetic effects', in M Scanlon & N-A Le-Khac (eds), 16th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, ECCWS 2017, Curran Associates, pp. 288-297.
2016	Ormrod, D & Turnbull, B 2016, 'The military cyber-maturity model: preparing modern cyber-enabled military forces for future conflicts', in T Zlateva & VA Greiman (eds), 11th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, ICCWS 2016, Academic Conferences Limited, pp. 261-268.
2016	Ormrod, D, Turnbull, B & O'Sullivan, K 2016, 'System of systems cyber effects simulation ontology', Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015, IEEE, pp. 2475-2486. 8
2014	Ormrod, D 2014, 'A 'wicked problem' - predicting sos behaviour in tactical land combat with compromised C4ISR', 9th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, SoSE 2014, IEEE, pp. 107-112. 2
2014	Ormrod, D 2014, 'The coordination of cyber and kinetic deception for operational effect: attacking the C4ISR interface', in (eds), 33rd Annual IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2014, IEEE, pp. 117-122. 6 3
2008	Baltatzis, G, Ormrod, DG & Grainger, N 2008, 'Social networking tools for internal communication in large organizations: benefits and barriers', 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, ACIS 2008, AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), pp. 76-86. Open access 16

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Bournemouth University	UNITED KINGDOM
Bundeswehr Command and Staff College	GERMANY
Command and Staff College of the German Armed Forces	GERMANY
Cygence	AUSTRALIA
De Montfort University	UNITED KINGDOM
ICF	UNITED STATES
ICF International	UNITED STATES
ICF International (United States)	UNITED STATES
Idaho National Laboratory	UNITED STATES
Indian Institute Of Technology Indore	INDIA
SAP Germany	GERMANY
Swinburne University of Technology	AUSTRALIA
Terra Schwartz	AUSTRALIA
Terra Schwartz Pty Ltd	AUSTRALIA
University of Canberra	AUSTRALIA
University of London	UNITED KINGDOM
University of New South Wales	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Texas at Dallas	UNITED STATES

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Member Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD)	2021
Member Simulation Interoperability Standards Organisation (SISO)	2021
Member Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)	2021
Member Australian Information Security Association (AISA)	2021
Member ISACA (previously the Information Systems Audit and Control Association)	2021
Member Association of Old Crows (AOC)	2021
Member Military Operations Research Society (MORS)	2021
Member United States Military Cyber Professionals Association (MCPA)	2021
Member International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC2)	2021
Member Space Reference Federation Object Model (SpaceFOM) Product Support Group (PSG),	2021

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Enhancing Defence Air Safety and Air Worthiness through software resilience	Current
Standardised Incident Prevention and Response for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises	Current

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