James Bore – Director of Bores Group Ltd.

Web: https://bores.com/

Email: james@bores.com

Tel: +44 (0) 7753 691 378

Bio: James is an independent consultant and Director of a family security and technology consultancy established in 1988.

A member of the Register of Chartered Security Professionals and with an MSc in Cyber Security, he has a wealth of both theoretical knowledge and practical skills built up over two decades of work experience across a diverse range of companies. His proudest professional moments these days are watching his students through CAPSLOCK go on to build and enjoy their own careers in the security industry and his mentees standing on stage to give their first talk at conferences.

When not writing, on a stage, consulting, building scenarios, teaching, or training he enjoys reading cheap fiction books and philosophy, talking to his bees, and cooking.

Presentation title: Creeping Online

Presentation topic: Taking a volunteer and building up a profile of their online presence, walking through the type of tools used to investigate them, searches made, and how the investigation progressed using only passive open source intelligence tools available to anyone.

Presentation title: Understanding the Cyber Security Headlines

Presentation topic: Looking at recent attacks against companies and individuals hitting the media, and walking through what really happened (as much as is known, with educated guesses to fill in the gaps), and how to read between the lines of stories to understand what it really means for your or your principal’s data.

Quote: “It’s vital we remember in cyber security that technology is just a tool to connect the threats we want to protect against to the assets we want to protect. Both the threats and the assets are people. Sometimes they’re the same people.”