He heads the cyber security programme, serves as the Research Adviser for the Cloud Security Alliance's Asia Pacific Region, and is International Faculty Member at Idaho State University, USA. He is Principal Investigator of the 6-year NZD12.23 million MBIE science investment project - STRATUS (Security Technologies Returning Accountability, Trust and User-Centric Services in the Cloud), and editor of the ISO/IEC 21878 standard - Security guidelines for the design and implementation of virtualized servers.