The development of a Security Systems Research and Test Laboratory at a university

This paper describes the development of the Security Systems Research and Test Laboratory at Edith Cowan University (ECU), and outline the approaches the collaborating partners will follow in testing and evaluating the security systems. The paper discusses the benefits that the Laboratory brings to the security industry through the its testing and evaluation function. Also, the benefits of the Laboratory to ECU Security Science undergraduate and postgraduate students are discussed, as a commitment of the relevance of academic courses to the security industry.