Cyber Warfare Centre

The Cyber Warfare Centre (CWC) is a multi-dimensional research centre focusing on the discipline of cyber warfare with an emphasis on cyber attack, defensive capabilities and technologies, and associated methodologies and frameworks.

Strategic Focus
The CWC focuses on cyber warfare, cyberspace defence, cyber science and security, national/regional cyber security, the protection of critical infrastructures, and transnational challenges ranging from geopolitical cyber security issues to the strategic development of international legal and policy frameworks related to cyberspace.

• Cyber Warfare Centre
• Cyber Warfare School (Training)
• Cyberspace Science Research & Development Group (CSRD Group)

The CWC will promote forward-looking strategies that centre on cyberspace, cyber warfare, cyber arms control, deterrence, and the development of cyber security and cyber science in the fifth domain. Cyberspace is "the fifth domain of warfare” and states must recognize it as such. Nations must understand that cyber warfare is a national security concern and must formally recognize cyberspace as a new domain in warfare that is just as critical to military operations as the traditional land, sea, air, and space.  

Strategically, the CWC leverages collaboration, coordination, cooperation, and the transferability of knowledge to enable, ensure, and support its mission and its ability to discover, discern, and provide education on emergent trends in cyberspace, cyber warfare, and information dominance.

• Enhance education in all areas of cyber security and operations, public and private
• Facilitate the sharing of expertise, proficiency, and perspective in cyber-enabled technologies
• Identify priorities to enhance interdisciplinary, cyber-centric research
• Disseminate information, complement efforts, and form a common framework for correlated cyber-enabled mission efforts

The CWC focus supports the strategy to define and secure cyberspace by advancing research and development initiatives intended to reduce the risk and vulnerabilities of national critical and military infrastructures.

The Challenge
There is still no systematic effort aimed at strategic cyberspace planning for national security that is inclusive, deliberative, integrative, and defensive. Almost all cyber warfare capabilities developed to date are offensive in nature. Cyber security industry vendors, as a group, are entrusted with cyberspace defence but are generally lagging behind the offensive capabilities of cyber criminals, terrorist organizations, cartels, and state/non-state-sponsored national and corporate espionage.

The CWC will promote the following core areas within its scope:

• Treat cyberspace as an operational domain
• Provide training and education resources
• Defence and intelligence information sharing within the CWC
• Provide realistic assessment of the capabilities, means, and motivations of selected nation-states to conduct a remote, computer-to-computer attack
• Develop new offensive/defensive concepts for cyberspace and cyber warfare

The issues run deep within the currents of national security, and can have an impact on international events through the challenges associated with cyber warfare and national defence.