Professor Watters is a trusted cybersecurity advisor and thought leader, and Senior Partner - Cyber Security. He is the author of Counterintelligence in a Cyber World (Springer - ISBN 978-3031352867) and Cybercrime and Cybersecurity (CRC Press - ISBN 978-1032524511).
Professor Watters is Honorary Professor of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, and Professor of Information Systems at Holmesglen Institute. Professor Watters is a Chartered IT Professional, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Senior Member of the IEEE, Member of the ACM, and a Member of the Australian Psychological Society.
Professor Watters works in two main areas:
Cybersecurity advisory - strategy, governance, risk, compliance, independent reviews, Essential Eight assessment and compliance, DISP preparation, and Virtual CISO, with a focus on the charitable, NFP, defence and government sectors
Cybercrime research - reducing harm from online child sex abuse, piracy and intellectual property theft, fraud, scams and phishing, using AI, data mining and analytics
Professor Watters is one of the world's leading cyber security researchers, with his work being cited more than 9,329 times by other researchers, with a h-index of 44 (meaning that at least 44 of his papers have been cited at least 44 times). A full listing of his research papers spanning malware analysis, phishing, forensics, Child Sex Abuse Material (CSAM) prevention, cyber intelligence, anti-piracy and others can be found on Google Scholar.Â