Paul Watters

Professor Watters is Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity at La Trobe University. He is a Chartered IT Professional, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Member of the Australian Psychological Society. Professor Watters is a graduate of the University of Cambridge, and an active member of the Senate of the University.

Professor Watters managed his first cybersecurity incident in 1993 while working as a UNIX system administrator at the University of Newcastle. He worked in technical roles for many years, including as a system administrator and software engineer for IT companies with clients such as Oracle Australia, Fuji Xerox, the National Office of the Information Economy (NOIE), Qantas, Kip McGrath Education Centres, the NSW Police Service, Pickles Auctions, Sydney Fish Markets and the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC). He also worked as a researcher at the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, CSIRO, Macquarie University, the Medical Research Council (UK), the University of Ballarat, Massey University and La Trobe University.

Professor Watters has published a number of top-selling IT books on cybersecurity, intelligence, and system administration with McGraw Hill, O'Reilly & Associates and Springer.

Professor Watters is one of the world's leading cyber security researchers, with his work being cited more than 7,073 times by other researchers, with a h-index of 39 (meaning that at least 39 of his papers have been cited at least 39 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.