Research Interests
Rossouw has researched the fields of information and cybersecurity, as well as IT governance, over a period more than thirty years.
Cybersecurity has become a matter of global interest and importance. The Whitehouse (2011) outlined a cyber-strategy which not only provides the stance of the United States of America (USA) on cyber-related issues but which also provides a unified approach towards the USA’s engagement with other countries regarding cyber issues. The United Kingdom (UK) lists cybersecurity as a top priority and committed £650m over four years for a transformative National Cyber Security Programme (Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, 2011).
Information and cybersecurity have become critical to any government, enterprise as well as individual today. are dependent on critical information and cyber services and infrastructure. Similarly, any enterprise gathers, stores, process and transmit valuable and sometimes confidential and private information. From a personal perspective, all of us holds and uses critical information, like user-IDs and passwords, bank and credit card numbers and access codes, etc.
All these information sources and cyber infrastructures need to be protected. Information and cybersecurity is thus a discipline that continues to protect all of this valuable information and cyber resources and assets, throughout all the technical developments in the information and cyber technologies. The research foci of
Rossouw’s research were mostly on the human and management aspects of information and cybersecurity.
List of Publications
He has published and presented more than 220 peer-reviewed research papers. His academic work attracted more than 8000 citations to date (July 2020). Most of these papers were published and presented in the field of Information and Cyber Security as well as IT Governance,