I am a highly experienced investigator and cybersecurity specialist. I specialise in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and have more than 15 years’ experience of conducting internet investigations into everything from cybercrime and fraud to nation state threat actors.
In my law enforcement career I was a detective focusing on cyber crime, digital forensics, and internet research. Having built up my skills in traditional investigations of serious and complex crime I began to develop techniques and tactics to identify and prosecute criminals who used the internet, including some of the UK’s most prolific child sex offenders, fraudsters, and dark web criminals.
I’m also an Instructor Candidate for the SANS Institute, the world’s largest information security research, training, and certification provider. I teach SEC497 Practical Open Source Intelligence and SEC587 Advanced Open Source Intelligence to students from Fortune 500 companies, government, military and law enforcement so that they will have the skills they need to have successful careers in cyber security and all aspects of internet investigation.
I’m a confident and experienced public speaker, and I love to share my learning and research with others. I was also previously an executive board member of The OSINT Curious Project.
This blog is purely for my own writing and research and my views are entirely my own.
