Rate My Professor Brianna O'Shea

Dr. Brianna O'Shea serves as Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Technology at Murdoch University. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Tasmania in 2022, with a thesis titled 'The Investigation and Prosecution of Cyberstalking in Australia,' funded by the Australian Postgraduate Award and supervised by Professor Nicole Asquith and Associate Professor Jeremy Prichard. Her earlier degrees include a Bachelor of Criminology and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (Honours), both from Murdoch University. Currently, Dr. O'Shea is advancing her expertise through studies in Cybersecurity at Harvard University.

Prior roles include Lecturer in Ethical Hacking and Defense at Edith Cowan University and Adjunct Researcher at the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies at the University of Tasmania. Her research focuses on policing cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime, human factors in cybersecurity, and cyberstalking investigations. Notable publications comprise 'Responding to cybercrime: results of a comparison between community members and police personnel' (2021, Trends in Psychology, co-authored with N. L. Asquith and J. Prichard), 'Mapping Cyber-Enabled Crime: Understanding Police Investigations and Prosecutions of Cyberstalking' (2022, co-authored with N. L. Asquith and J. Prichard), and the book chapter 'Challenges in Policing Cyberstalking: A Critique of the Stalking Risk Profile in the Context of Online Relationships' (co-authored with R. Julian and J. Prichard). She has authored articles for The Conversation, including 'Holding the world to ransom: the top 5 most dangerous criminal organisations online right now' (2021), 'Airports, ATMs, hospitals: Microsoft Windows XP leak would be less of an issue, if so many didn’t use it' (2020), 'A computer can guess more than 100,000,000,000 passwords per second. Still think yours is secure?' (2020), and 'Microsoft’s takeover would be a win for TikTok and tech giants – not users' (2020). Dr. O'Shea received a scholarship for the American Chamber of Commerce Global Leadership Academy in 2022. In 2019, she hosted the Microsoft AI Hackathon and judged the National Missing Persons Hackathon for the Australian Federal Police and Trace Labs. She has presented at the International Conference on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics and the 4th International Conference on Cybercrime in Vancouver.

Professional Email: Brianna.O'Shea@murdoch.edu.au