Stephen McCombie has worked in the security community for over 20 years. He is currently a PhD candidate at Macquarie University's School of Computing doing research into transnational and organised cybercrime. He has published a number of papers on cybercrime, computer forensics and incident response.He spent 14 years in the NSW Police Force as a Detective and helped establish their Computer Crime Unit. Since joining the private sector in 1998 he has held investigation and IT security roles within Qantas, Westpac, IBM and National Australia Bank. He is currently a casual academic at Macquarie University.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Macquarie), a Graduate Diploma in Computing (Deakin), and a Masters of Information Technology (Deakin). Stephen is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and an Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP).