External Competitive Research Funding ($6M+)

2025 - 2026 Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade

Developing Malaysia's Cyber Threat Intelligence Capability

Atif Ahmad, Sean Maynard

$220,000

2024 - 2025 Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade

Australia Awards Fellowship Program with Malaysian Government

Atif Ahmad, Sean Maynard

$130,000

2023 - 2025 Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade

Strategic Thinking in Cybersecurity for Malaysia

Atif Ahmad, Sean Maynard

$405,000

2023 - 2025 Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade

Developing the Philippines' Capability to Combat Disinformation

Morgan Saletta, Atif Ahmad, Piers Howe

$550,000

2022 - 2024 Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade

Developing Malaysia's Cyber Incident Response Capability

Atif Ahmad, Sean Maynard, Justin Filippou

$490,000

2021 - 2025 Menzies Foundation

New Legal Thinking for Emerging Technologies

Tim Miller, Jeannie Paterson, Atif Ahmad, Lars Kulik

$800,000

2021 Department of Defence, Australian Government

Understanding Mass Influence Organisations

Emily Ebbott, Morgan Saletta, Richard Stearne, Atif Ahmad et al.

$430,000

2017 - 2021 Academic Centre of Cyber Security Excellence

Chris Leckie (Director), Atif Ahmad (Deputy Director).

$950,000

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2019 Department of Home Affairs

A Standards-based Approach to Critical Infrastructure Risk Mitigation

Greg Adamson (Lead), Atif Ahmad, Moneer Alsahaikh, Zahrah Ghafoori, Chris Leckie

$64,000

2019 - 2020 Oceania Centre of Cyber Security Excellence

A Research Methodology for Video-Enhanced Storytelling using Digital Artifacts in Cybersecurity Education

Atif Ahmad (Lead), Sean Maynard, Humza Naseer, Prof Rens Scheepers (Deakin)

Industry Partner: Holmes Institute

$100,000

2016 - 2019 Australian Research Council Discovery Project

Enhancing Information Security through Organisational Learning

Atif Ahmad (Lead), Sean Maynard, Richard Baskerville, Mary Crossan, Graeme Shanks (Retired)

$270,000

2018 Oceania Cyber Security - Proof of Concept Project

Executive Learning in Cyber Security: Video-enhanced Storytelling for Online Education

Atif Ahmad (Lead), Rens Scheepers, Sean Maynard

$78,000

2004-2012 Australian Research Council Networks

Research Network for a Secure Australia

Priyan Mendis (Lead Investigator), Atif Ahmad and others as Investigators

$1.9M