Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Stephen's current research interests are in cyber security, digital forensics, cyber threat intelligence and information warfare. His research draws on a diverse background in policing, security and information technology. His PhD thesis examined the impact of Eastern European cybercrime groups on Australian banks. Stephen over the last 20 years has held a number of senior positions in information security with IBM, CSC, RSA, National Australia Bank (nabCERT) and SecureWorks. In 2009 nabCERT, the team Stephen setup and led, won AusCERT's Annual Award for Organisational Excellence in Information Security. Stephen prior to working in industry spent 14 years in the NSW Police as a Detective and was instrumental in the establishment of their first computer crime investigation team. Stephen is currently a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security at Macquarie University in Australia and an Honorary Research Fellow at Massey University in New Zealand. He is also currently a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and an Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP).
Research interests
- Cyber conflict
- Cyber espionage
- Organised cyber crime groups
- State offensive cyber capability
Teaching
PICT8080 Cyber Conflict, Cyber Espionage and Cyber Terrorism
PICT8040 Cyber Crime and Cyber Policing
Research student supervision
Interested in PhD and MRes candidates in areas of cyber security, digital forensics, cyber threat intelligence and information warfare.
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Projects
Research Outputs
The US 2016 presidential election & Russia's troll farms
McCombie, S., Uhlmann, A. J. & Morrison, S., 2020, In : Intelligence and National Security. 35, 1, p. 95-114 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
A target-centric intelligence approach to WannaCry 2.0
Turner, A. B., McCombie, S. & Uhlmann, A. J., 7 Oct 2019, In : Journal of Money Laundering Control. 22, 4, p. 646-665 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
The elusive field of cyber intelligence: notes from the educational front
McCombie, S., Uhlmann, A. J. & Ramsay, J., 12 Aug 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : The Journal of the Australia Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers. 27, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Threat actor oriented strategy: knowing your enemy to better defend, detect and respond to cyber-attacks
McCombie, S., 2018, In : The Journal of the Australia Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers. 26, 1, p. 24-41 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Welcome message
Brown, S., Layton, R., McCombie, S., Pieprzyk, J. & Watters, P. A., 2015, Proceedings: Fifth Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing Conference: CTC 2014. Piscataway, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. vi 1 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript/introduction
Prizes
Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers AIPIO Publication Award
Stephen McCombie (Recipient), Allon J Uhlmann (Recipient) & James Ramsay (Recipient), 2019
Prize
Activities
- 1 Oral presentation
Interference in the 2016 US Election
Stephen McCombie (Speaker)Jul 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation