James Bore

With cutting humour James has a series of motivational talks built around superficially demotivational ideas such as "No One Cares", "It's Better to be Wrong", and "If You Try and Don't Succeed, Give Up".

Grounded in sound psychological principles these talks take an honest look at mental health and the damage that supposedly motivational ideas can do.

James has worked in various aspects of technology and security for over a decade, focusing on the human and cultural aspects to both. He has extensive hands on experience of implementating technologies and security programmes, along with motivating employees to enthusiastically adopt and engage with both.

He works extensively with newcomers to the industry, offering support and encouragement as much as any practical advice, and enthusiastically supports any event that encourages and enables an audience to take ownership of their own security awareness and posture.

James has been implementing and teaching threat modelling as a technique for both technical and non-technical audiences for the last three years, with engaging presentations and workshops ranging from deep dives into intricate threat models, to cat-themed introductions to the ideas involved.

More than just a technical solution, threat modelling is a toolkit which can be used in the design of any system, whether a marketing campaign, policy framework, building, or IT, to reduce the risks to that system and ensure it is built with approriate security baked into the foundations.