Jim Swauger has over 18 years of experience in the digital forensics field, starting as a computer forensics specialist with the Ohio Attorney General's Computer Crime Unit and then moving on to being the technical security investigator for a top financial institution before becoming an expert consultant with Binary Intelligence. At Binary Intelligence, a firm that specializes in complex cellphone forensic services, Jim manages advanced mobile device Chip-Off, JTAG, and ISP extractions and subsequent forensic data analyses. Jim is an avid Linux user and proponent of using open source resources in digital forensic investigations. His clients include law enforcement and government agencies, corporations, and law firms.
Dr. Stilianos Vidalis was born and raised in Mykonos, a Greek island in Cyclades. He moved to the UK in 1995 to study computer science. He holds a PhD in the threat assessment of micro-payment systems. He is currently the Director of Training for the Cyber Security Centre at the University of Hertfordshire. He lectures on the subjects of cyber security and digital forensics and undertakes consultancy for a number of private and public organizations.
His involvement in the information operations arena began in 2001. Since then, he has participated in high-profile, high-value projects for large international organizations and governments. He has collected and analyzed information for prestigious European financial institutions, applying international standards under the context of risk and threat assessment. He trained the British Armed Forces (Tri-Service) in penetration testing and digital forensics for a number of years.
During his career, Dr. Vidalis has developed and published in peer-reviewed scientific journals his own threat-assessment methodology and other aspects of his work on threat agent classification, vulnerability assessment, early warning systems, deception in CNO, identity theft, and computer criminal profiling.
Zhouyuan Yang has a master's degree in advanced security and digital forensics. His research areas include host- and network-based security, forensics, penetration testing, and IDP/S systems.
Currently, he is a researcher at Fortinet's Fortiguard Labs on the zero-day team, focusing on network security and vulnerability research.
I would like to thank my father, Qisheng Yang, who gives his full love supporting my career dreams.
