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Simplified Biography
SIMON SMITH has been programming since the tender age of 11
years old. Throughout his young professional life, he had an accelerated start and
achieved what many people may call impossible. He is currently a successful,
well-known Australian Digital Forensics Software Engineer and Cyber Security
Expert Witness and Investigator. His combination of skills sets arises from
over 20 years of industry experience on top of a youthful array of teenage
achievements including being placed at the top of the country in his IT
certification results and straight into industry as an analyst programmer but
with the expectation of completing the full role, inclusive of the SDLC.
At the young age of just 22 years old, he was lecturing after
work short course at University in advanced computer programming and shortly
thereafter in addition to this running a successful international standalone
enterprise software business at the forefront of IoT technology for major
hospital networks in the US, interfacing with digital dictation devices and
writing API and SDKs for digital transcription devices and vendors for plugins
to popular software such as Windows Media Player, Real One, VLC, internet web
browsers via JavaScript connectivity, (essentially API for programmers) COM
interfaces, iTunes and more. his digital dictation software also led him into
the realm of VOIP and streaming audio capture and workflow management. The
system then grew to an entire hospital automated digital dictation and
transcription reliable setup which processed over a million minutes of medical
dictation. Further, he developed a Pocket PC Windows CE based digital dictation
proprietary voice recording and workflow system that the physicians would take
with them whilst reviewing x-rays or will use to dictate after an appointment.
He then created an ISDN PPX system that also integrated into the workflow that
allowed the recording, rewinding, inserting, overwriting and addition of
metadata via DTMF that would be another method for physicians to record. As
innovation was on the forefront of Simon's mind, he created one of the world's
first remote printing applications allowing almost instant workflow from
dictation, to transcriptionist back to the surgery as a printed document, all
in one. This was at the time when physicians were converting from tape to
digital. Then after performing work on that business during the night he woke
up to start his professional job and do it all over again from 9 am. In the
period of eight years in working for an employer whilst keeping up this fast
pace, he created systems that automated business CRM processes and reporting,
mastered all areas of the SDLC especially computer programming. In those roles,
he worked on many large corporates including major pharmaceutical companies,
interrogated geodata that spanned terabytes of information via SQL, assisted in
integrating legacy systems into the new era of programming. At this
point, Visual Studio and C were his main tools until he decided to branch out
and open up his own empire.
All throughout those years he had a special interest in the lack
of security all software that he came across suffered and was able to find flaws
in almost any software he found. In one instance, almost thirteen years ago he
reported to QuickBooks that credit card numbers were visible via a simple
method of manipulating the binary of the data file. He was bemused to find that
the never responded. Similarly, a flaw in a major household name manufacturer’s
digital door lock system where he was able to duplicate the tags of at least
three stocked models on the shelves in Australia that contained what he found
to be flaws in the implementation of RFID and Bluetooth, this enabled him to
unlock any door essentially within five seconds. Being of good character he
contacted the manufacturer immediately, they took six months to get back to
him, receive his information and never contacted him again. Cyber security is a
very mixed basket of skills. It was at this time that Simon opened up a highly
successful vertical market enterprise as CEO and shortly after that became a
licensed investigator. During that period, he invested greatly in his education
which almost started in reverse making him a very decorated young man with both
Australian qualifications at post-graduate level and Department of Homeland
Security NICCS recognised certifications in areas related to Cyber, fraud,
workplace threats, social media, criminal, high-tech forensics and forensic
investigations. However, it wasn’t the training that gave Simon his abilities,
it was his inherent underlining skill of two simple things; logic and common
sense. Those two skills combined have been applied to business, forensic
investigations, cyberstalking cases, his professional mediation and dispute
resolution credentials, his high technical ability and understanding of human
behaviour to solve problems.
There is not an IT/Cyber/Security job that he has not mastered.
He is an Expert Entrepreneur, Counter Intelligence Social Engineer, and PI. He
is known for his skills solving real High-tech cases and has been asked to
assist international Cyber Police.
He is a cybercrime expert witness using techniques he creates on
a case-by-case basis to track IP addresses with little to no clues very
successfully via a methodical method of social engineering he specialises in.
He has given expert opinion on topics such as Cyber Terror, Cyber Stalking,
Cyber Espionage, the Dark Web, Blockchain and Cryptography. He has been
labelled by Security Now’s Ken Hess as perhaps the “World's Best Investigator”.
He has identified Cyber Criminals by direct unfiltered IP
addresses and even had a friendly conversation with them whilst attaining the
necessary details to give police for crimes that add up to approximately $80m.
He has also helped to identify over 200 Cyber Stalkers by using the same
techniques and helping the Australian Community in a subject area they
otherwise would be left abandoned. In Australia, the police do not actively
pursue or investigate Cyber Crime, they only allow you to report it which can
be very frustrating for the public. Simon has a variety of skills covering
mediation, conciliation, alternate dispute resolution, computer forensics,
expert witness, evidence preservation and has been appointed an independent
expert in complex technical cases by the court. He is well-known in the
Australian media and has been featured on SBS (3), Sky News (Cable), Today (9),
ABC (2), A Current Affair (9), The Project (10), radio, print, online and
abroad many times.
Keynote Accomplishments
Mr. Smith is an upfront, say it how it is, very informed
investigative speaker. He has attended hundreds of sites during a Cyber crisis
and mitigated such crises in record time. The only way he has done this is by
understanding the full systems development lifecycle but most importantly by
keeping communications open and strong with C level staff. He is very much a
people person and can identify that people are very much a part of the process.
He has two upcoming conferences, in his previous conference with Secure
Utilities he presented to a group of high level CSIOs openly and honestly about
what he has seen as a forensic investigator on the frontline and what really
matters. He pointed out the difference between information sec and cyber sec.
He was featured as an expert in the Secure Utilities magazine line-up
specifically focusing on how some utilities personnel are its biggest risk when
it comes to keeping data secure. He outlined steps that utilities need to take
to protect their data and the techniques available to achieve this. He gave
them a shocking demonstration of how easy it is for somebody to socially
engineer a staff member by playing them a video. He gave a real, honest,
evidence-based presentation which was not selling any services or textbook
style presented but was factual and backed up by actual real-life experience.
Presentation
In the
modern world, we are taught to think about the complex issues that emerging
technology has brought to us. We are constantly battling in the fight against
Cyber Espionage and hacktivism, the introduction of increased ransomware and
cryptocurrency obstacles, fraud and a very big rush to market for all systems
to fix the problem. We are also met with what the industry perceives as a gap
in the market of professionals in cyber sec to deal with the IoTs and clouds in
the sky as well as these extra intelligent beings known as hackers. However,
from what I have seen and grown up with all my life, this is merely smoke and
mirrors. What if I told you that there was a much simpler explanation to all of
this? What if I told you that the very problem that we are trying to fix, is
causing the problem we are trying to fix? Coming from a high-tech background, I
would love to come and blast out a million technical words but it’s not
necessary from what I have learnt from technology the limitations of machine
learning and the severity of human deception, I believe that I can provide a
way of thinking that has worked for me and an explanation that if we were to
look backwards, would signify the trigger points of what we know consider to be
a crisis. It is only us humans that are the ones that truly have the ability to
make a difference by applying two ingredients. Logic and Common Sense.
I recently was a presenter at the
Respect Campaign's
Global Cyber Health & Safety Virtual 3D Summithttp://evirtualsummits.com/event/the-respect-campaign/
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