Bryan Monk

Bryan Monk is a Master鈥檚 student in the School of Criminology at 丁香园AV. His primary research interests include: social network analysis, cybercrime, geocoding IP addresses, Dark Web, cryptocurrencies, and cryptography. For his MA thesis, Bryan will be examining how crimes persist on the Dark Web. Specifically, he will be applying a social network perspective to assess the nature of Dark Web and how people use it to commit crime. His thesis is being supervised by Dr. Richard Frank.

Bryan also works on the technical component of the projects at the ICCRC, working closely with Dr. Frank on the data extraction process. He also modifies the web-crawler and applies a range of technologies to the data.

Contact Information:

bmm8@sfu.ca

Relevant Publications:

Monk, B., Mitchell, J., Frank, R., & Davies, G. (2018). Uncovering Tor: An Examination of the Network Structure. .

Zulkarnine, A., Frank, R., Monk, B., Mitchell, J., & Davies, G. (2016). Surfacing Collaborated Networks in Dark Web to Find Illicit and Criminal Content. In .

Frank, R., Macdonald, M., & Monk, B. (2016). Location, Location, Location: Mapping Potential Canadian Targets in Online Hacker Discussion Forums. In .

Frank, R., Macdonald, M., & Monk, B. (2015). Identifying Potential Canadian Targets in Online Hacker Forums. Ottawa: Public Safety Canada.

Monk, B., Allsup, R., & Frank, R. (2015). LECENing Places to Hide: Geo-Mapping Child Exploitation Material. In .
*Nominated for Best Paper at the 2015 ISI conference

Allsup, R., Thomas, E., Monk, B., Frank, R., & Bouchard, B. (2015). Networking in Child Exploitation: Assessing Disruption Strategies Using Registrant Information. In .

Macdonald, M., Frank, R., Mei, J., & Monk, B. (2015). Identifying Digital Threats in a Hacker Web Forum. In .
*Won Best Paper at the 2015 FOSINT conference