Simon ( Si ) Biles

Current

Information Security Consultant at Oxfam
Associate Lecturer at Open University
Subject Matter Expert at ContentMaster / Microsoft

Lead Consultant & Director at Thinking Security Ltd.

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Past

Aspire Security Architect at Capgemini
Senior Network Security Application Engineer at 3Com
Security Consultant and Developer at Science and Technology Facilites Council ( Formerly CCLRC )

Infrastructure Security Analyst ( SOx ) at Vodafone UK
Linux Consultant at Cable and Wireless
Kerberos Consultant at Golden River Traffic
UNIX Security Analyst at JP Morgan Chase
Author at O'Reilly & Associates
UNIX Systems Administrator at Institute of Cancer Research
UNIX Systems Administrator at CFX, AEA Technology Plc.
UNIX Systems Administrator at EdNet

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Education

Cranfield University
The University of Edinburgh

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Industry

Computer & Network Security

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Simon ( Si ) Biles’s Summary

Experienced InfoSec consultant, CISSP, BS7799 Lead Auditor, OPSA.

Simon ( Si ) Biles’s Specialties:

General IT Security, UNIX, Firewalls, IDS & IPS, Single-Sign On, Technical Writing, Penetration Testing, Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus, Encryption, Open Source Security Tools, OSSTMM, BS7799 Auditing, SOx, Kerberos, Shibboleth, Forensics

Simon ( Si ) Biles’s Experience

Information Security Consultant

Oxfam

(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)

Thinking Security are currently contracted to Oxfam GB to review, direct and implement Information Security solutions.
Associate Lecturer

Open University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Associate Lecturer on the Postgraduate Information Security Management Course - M886
Subject Matter Expert

ContentMaster / Microsoft

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Services industry)

March 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)

Produced assorted pieces of work for Microsoft through ContentMaster, including "Building Unix Security and Directory Solutions using LDAP, Kerberos & Windows Server 2003", "Converting UNIX Daemons to Windows Services using C#" and some testing work.
Lead Consultant & Director

Thinking Security Ltd.

(Computer & Network Security industry)

April 2002 — Present (7 years 8 months)

Senior Consultant and Owner of Thinking Security Ltd. (previously Computer Security Online Ltd.) an InfoSec company near Oxford in England.
Aspire Security Architect

Capgemini

(Public Company; CAP; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2008 — April 2009 (7 months)

Aspire Security Architect
Senior Network Security Application Engineer

3Com

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; COMS; Computer Networking industry)

June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)

Doing security test work on the next generation of 3COM appliances - Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, IDS/IPS and Firewall.
Security Consultant and Developer

Science and Technology Facilites Council ( Formerly CCLRC )

(Higher Education industry)

April 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 3 months)

Using Shibboleth to develop/implement a single sign on solution for the JISCMail Service.
Infrastructure Security Analyst ( SOx )

Vodafone UK

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

December 2006 — March 2007 (4 months)

Ensuring Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for Vodafone UK with regard to OS, DB and Application patching.
Linux Consultant

Cable and Wireless

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

November 2006 — December 2006 (2 months)

Linux consultant for government project.
Kerberos Consultant

Golden River Traffic

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2006 — November 2006 (4 months)

Kerberos Consultant for UK Government Highways Agency project. Designed and tested Kerberos authentication solution for emebeded traffic monitoring devices.
UNIX Security Analyst

JP Morgan Chase

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

November 2005 — April 2006 (6 months)

UNIX Security Specialist working with ETrust and Keon.
Author

O'Reilly & Associates

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

2005 — 2005 (less than a year)
UNIX Systems Administrator

Institute of Cancer Research

(Computer & Network Security industry)

2004 — 2005 (1 year )
UNIX Systems Administrator

CFX, AEA Technology Plc.

(Computer & Network Security industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years )
UNIX Systems Administrator

EdNet

(Computer & Network Security industry)

1997 — 2000 (3 years )

Simon ( Si ) Biles’s Education

Cranfield University

MSc , Forensic Computing , 2006 — 2009
The University of Edinburgh

DipHE , Computer Science and Artifical Intelligence , 1996 — 2000

I studied, in addition to CompSci and AI, Company, Criminal and Contract Law, Electronics, Industrial Management, Oceanography and Geomorphology.