Jill Slay
SmartSat Chair: Cybersecurity
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Organisation unit

College of Engineering and Information Technology School of Computer Science and Information Technology School of Computer Science and Information Tech

Location

Adelaide University
Profile of Jill Slay

My skills

critical infrastructure protection
cyber security
National Security and cyber policy
Research leadership
Satellite Cyber Security and Resilience

About me

 I am currently the AU SmartSat Co-operative Research Centre Professorial Chair in Cybersecurity. My work in this role since 2020 focuses on the context of supporting development of a holistic national technical agenda in satellite cybersecurity and resilience with Government, Defence and Defence Industry.   I work with twenty of Australia’s universities in space cyber security context and with Defence and DSTG and Defence Industry.      

 I have twenty-five years of university cross -disciplinary cyber security curriculum and research development, after establishing myself as a cyber security academic, drawing on engineering, ICT and systems security. 

In a technical context, I was ranked as being in the top 2% of scientists in the world in Artificial Intelligence, ICT Networking and Telecommunications sub field (each year since 2019) since I was an early adopter of AI and Machine Learning in Cyber Security and Real Time Forensics. I apply these to satellite security. ·    

  • 2015     Australian Information Security Association InfoSec Educator of the Year. 
  • 2011    Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service through forensic computer science, security, and protection from cyber-terrorism. 
  • 2010     Fellow International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium for service to information security industry. 
  • 2008    Fellow Australian Computer Society for service to Australian IT research and education.

  • Previous appointments have included Optus Chair in Cybersecurity at La Trobe University from 2018-2020 and 
  • Founding Director of the UNSW Australian Centre for Cyber Security at the Australian Defence Force Academy from 2014-2018.     
  • I started my career at UniSA from 2000 to 2012, ending this period as Dean of Research in the Division of ITEE and Professor of Forensic Computing. 

  •  CISSP
  • MIEEE
  • I am a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts for 2022-2026 
  • I am Vice Chair of the IEEE P3349/3565 - Space System Cybersecurity Working Group which is developing technical standards in space systems cybersecurity. In a cyber skills professionalisation context.
  •  I am past Chair (2023) and Board Director (2006-2012, 2021-2022) of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC2), an international, non-profit association for information security professionals and leaders approaching a 600,000 total membership
Last updated on 25/01/2026 by Jill Slay