Noelle Warkentin is a current PhD Candidate at SFU, where she is supervised by Dr. Richard Frank. She has worked on projects related to cyberthreats against Canadian critical infrastructure, identifying risky individuals in online forums, how trust is established within darknet markets, and Indigenous student experiences at SFU. In addition, she has worked within a team as part of a summer program with the Human Centric Cybersecurity partnership, where she participated in the research and reporting of human behaviour in relation to cybersecurity for government and private organizations. Her main areas of interest include cybercrime, cybersecurity, cyber warfare, and the psychology of cyberoffenders.

Relevant Publications:

Warkentin, N., Beauregard, E., & Chopin, J. (2024). Typologies of sexually motivated abductions: a latent class analysis. Psychology, Crime & Law, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2024.2384452

Warkentin, N., Décary-Hétu, D., & Frank, R. (2024). Communities of Inquiry for Offenders: Learning Malware Development on Asynchronous Platforms. Deviant Behavior, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2024.2374423

Liu, S., Sayoto-Poulin, C., Rim, S., Seval, D., Vanderkooi, D., Warkentin, N., Decary-Hetu, D. (2022). Cybersecurity through human behaviour. Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership.

Warkentin, N., Frank, R., Zhang, Y., & Zakimi, N. (2022). Potential cyber-threats against Canada’s critical infrastructure: an investigation of online discussion forums. Criminal Justice Studies, 35(3), 322-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/1478601X.2022.2081568

Zhang, Y., Frank, R., Warkentin, N., & Zakimi, N. (2022). Accessible from the open web: a qualitative analysis of the available open-source information involving cyber security and critical infrastructure. Journal of Cybersecurity, 8(1), tyac003. https://doi.org/10.1093/cybsec/tyac003