Rate My Professor James Boorman

Associate Professor James Boorman is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity within Monash University's Faculty of Information Technology. He serves as Pacific Lead for the Faculty of Information Technology, Co-Director of the Information Empowered Communities Lab, and Chief Examiner and Lecturer for the unit FIT5129 - Cyber operations. His research interests include national-level cyber policy and strategy development, cyber capacity building, and cyber harm, with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region. Boorman supervises Master's and PhD students, as well as Policy Change Studio students from Stanford University and Industry Based Learning cybersecurity students in the Australian Government.

Boorman brings over 20 years of experience in research, information security management, and international development from positions at University College London, University of Cambridge, and the UK NHS, as well as Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer roles in the Australian Government, and Head of Research and Capacity Building at the not-for-profit Oceania Cyber Security Centre. Before joining Monash University, he established and led the Cybersecurity Capacity Maturity Model for Nations and Roadmap program in the Pacific, in collaboration with Professor Carsten Rudolph at Monash and the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at the University of Oxford. He is a recognized expert on cybersecurity in the Pacific, regularly invited to speak on international panels, workshops, and drills. Boorman has advised 10 Pacific Island governments on national cyber policy and strategy via CMM reviews and co-developed national cyber roadmaps for the Federated States of Micronesia and Nauru. He contributed to the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise Working Group A on Cyber Security Policy and Strategy, and Task Force on Strategy and Assessments, and co-designed the first Pacific government regional dialogue with Partners in the Blue Pacific governments. His capacity building initiatives include the Post-Quantum Cryptography in the Indo-Pacific Program and executive workshops on national cybersecurity strategy. Key publications comprise PQCIP: A Post-Quantum Cryptography Educational Program for Cybersecurity Professionals (2026), Pacific Islands chapter in The Palgrave Handbook on Cyber Diplomacy (2025), The Partners in the Blue Pacific P4C Outcomes Report (2024), Cybersecurity and sustainable development: An Intersectional Analysis (2022), and Cybersecurity Roadmap: Federated States of Micronesia (2022). His work has received funding from the Victorian Government, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, US Department of State, USAID, UN International Telecommunications Union, World Bank, The Asia Foundation, and Asia-Pacific Telecommunity.