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James Bore

CSyP
Managing Director
Bores Group Ltd
Country or state 
United Kingdom
Available to 
Global
City 
London
Fee 
Languages 
English
Volunteer
No

Personal Details

Current position (1)

Managing Director

Bores Group Ltd

Degrees (1)
Cybersecurity
Northumbria University
2017 to 2019

Bio

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Demotivation

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.

General

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.

Threat Modelling

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.

Presentations

Presentations (1)
Nobody Cares

A demotivational talk aimed at taking apart and explaining the spotlight effect and the damage it can do to mental health. With humour and honestly the audience come to recognise that everyone is wrapped up in their own world, and the dangers of overthinking the amount of focus that's given to people.

Workshops (1)
Introduction to Threat Modelling
2 hours
(View workshop agenda)

Threat modelling is a cheap, easy, pre-emptive approach to security testing, integrating into a design process for any system or process to secure it at the design stage and save significant backtracking effort compared to relying on vulnerability management alone.

Past talks (5)
Reducing Cyber Uncertainty
Infosek 2019
Hotel Perla, Nova Gorica
June 11, 2019
What's Behind Door Number 1? A Live Hacking and Electronic Lock-Picking Demonstration
Gulf Information Security Expo & Conference
Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai World Trade Centre, Sheikh Zayed Road Dubai, United Arab Emirates
March 31, 2019
Thinking Inside the Box: Modelling Insider Threat
IT Security Summit
Hilton London Canary Wharf
July 2, 2018
Changing Perspectives - Making Security Everyone's Problem
Global IT Security Summit
London
June 16, 2019
Building in Resilience and Security by Design for the Smart City of Tomorrow
NEOM Cityscape Global 2023
Riyadh
September 7, 2023
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GISEC 2019 Dark Stage
GISEC 2019 Dark Stage
Going After the Big Phish
One-sheet
Sky News: Is AI a Threat or a Vulnerability?

Books & Articles (8)

The Cyber Circuit
Security Blend Books,
2024
Cyber Defence in the Age of AI, Smart Societies and Augmented Humanity
Springer,
2020
Information Security Technologies for Controlling Pandemics
Springer,
2021
Fixing Software Development with Bitcoin
Luddites, WarGames, and the Lost Battle for Autonomy
Cyber security – where toothbrushes, drones and gnomes collide
Digital Pyres: What the Demise of DVD.com Means for Amazon's Mass Book Burnings
Cyber Security is Not Magic

Expertise (16)

Technology
Science
Social & Political
Cybersecurity Lockpicking Beekeeping Computer Networking Computer and Network Security Information Security Education Open Source Intelligence Threat modelling Security Culture Corporate Security Cyber Risk Management Information risk Management Holistic risk management

Clients

Pacific Life
CTG Intelligence
GISEC
Palsit
NEOM CityScape Global
BSides

Awards & certifications (1)

Best Educator
Security Serious
2023

Reviews

Testimonials (3)
  • James has been an excellent and innovative speaker at a number of my events both in the UK and the Middle East. He creates fresh new content with very current and engaging angles each time to thoroughly engage the audience. Thoroughly recommend James!
    P Rowe
    Verified
  • We were fortunate enough to work with James on a cutting-edge, cyber security academic programme, and he was immensely valuable. He demonstrated superb skill across several cyber security domains, advising on some of the most important aspects of our curriculum. He's also a superb speaker and trainer. He volunteered to deliver Cyber School lessons during the COVID lockdown, and his videos were very well received by over 10,000 school students.
    Jonathan Slater
  • James presented at TMHC Isolation Con in April 2020, his talk was engaging, well prepared and insightful. He was a brilliant presenter and I got great feedback from the 500+ people that attended his talk. I would definitely have James as a speaker or guest on our podcast anytime.
    Stuart Peck
    Organiser/Founder
    The Many Hats Club
    TMHC Isolation Con
    19/04/2020
    Verified
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I deliver impactful and engaging motivational keynote speeches and educational technical talks.

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