Simon Smith, Australia's most talented Cyber Forensic Expert Witness & Investigator

Simon Smith is glad to be one of the few recognised international cyber experts to be accepted in the COVID-19 CTI League. According to Reuters, the Cyber Threat Intelligence League was founded by security decision-makers Ohad Zaidenberg, Nate Warfield, Chris Mills, and Marc Rogers. Primarily, the group is aimed at preventing cyberattacks against health care facilities and providers. The group is defending health care organizations from cyberattacks and is also using its contacts in internet infrastructure providers to avert phishing attacks and other financially motivated cybercrimes that are using the fear of this pandemic to lure internet users. According to Marc Rogers, VP of cybersecurity strategy at Okta and DEF CON’s head of security, the COVID-19 CTI League has already traced and dismantled a hacking campaign that used a software vulnerability to distribute malware. Commenting on how the Coronavirus outbreak led to a huge surge in phishing attacks, Rogers said, "I've never seen this volume of phishing. I'm literally seeing phishing messages in every language known to man."

What makes up the skills of an eVestigator®

Simon has is a true frontline Cyber Security Expert, Expert Witness, Government Investigator, Crisis Responder, Auditor, Fraud Examiner, ACE, and holds a C|BP from IIB (Certified Blockchain Professional - IIB is a division of IC Council®). He is a World Renown Detective, CECI, CIRS® - Certified Internet Research Specialist, and CSSBB. He is also IBM Blockchain and Splunk Certified and well versed in all scope surrounding R&D and IoT best practice. Simon has also recently attained his CCSM® and as a Checkpoint Certified Security Master. He specialises in Cyber Forensics, Cyber Security, High-Tech Cybercrimes, Digital Forensics, and Expert Witness Services for Public, Family, Corporate and Government. He does not conduct missing person searches or surveillance. Simon Smith is also an member of the Australian Information Security Association (MAISA) and the IEEE, as well as an Honorary Advisory Board Member of IIB Council for their "Certified Blockchain Professional. IIB Council is a subsidiary of IC Council, a leader in Cybersecurity certifications internationally. https://www.iibcouncil.org/advisory-board-2/
 

Simon Smith becomes Digium (VOIP) dCAA® Certified: "After 20 years of developing custom VOIP solutions using the popular open source Linux PBX solution, Simon Smith completed the Digium Certified Asterisk Administrator exam which tests knowledge of Asterisk, VoIP, and telephony. To pass the dCAA exam, it is required that a candidate has experience in administering an Asterisk system, and are comfortable installing, configuring, and maintaining an Asterisk server using Linux and Asterisk CLI commands. Naturally, Simon can programme the system further than this, but this was a good industry certification to have to compliment his Graduate Diploma's relating to Telecommunications."

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Simon Smith becomes CAMS® accredited by the Identity Management Institute: "Access management also known as rights management is the execution of policies and procedures for granting authorized individuals the right to access services, functions, data, and physical locations while preventing non-authorized individuals from accessing systems, assets, and other services. Access management is one of the information security disciplines which interacts with users and their management the most and is critical to the implementation of policies and procedures to support the security goals of the organization, mitigate access risks, maintain access controls, and comply with contractual and legal requirements. Identity Management Institute® (IMI) developed the Certified Access Management Specialist® (CAMS) training program for testing, analysis, and evaluation of the knowledge, skills and abilities of professionals for the purpose of certification and re-certification in the field of access management. CAMS® is a registered trademark of IMI."

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Simon Smith becomes EC-Council® (CNDA®) Certified: "The Certified Network Defence Architect (CNDA) certification, which has been designed specially government/military agencies, certifies individuals in the specific network security discipline of Ethical Hacking from a vendor-neutral perspective. The CNDA certification will fortify the application knowledge of security officers, auditors, security professionals, site administrators, and anyone who is concerned about the integrity of the network infrastructure. A Certified Network Defence Architect is a skilled professional who understands and knows how to look for the weaknesses and vulnerabilities."

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eVestigator® becomes an AWS Certified Technology Partner
"Technology Partners provide software solutions that are either hosted on, or integrated with, the AWS platform. Technology Partners include Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), SaaS, PaaS, developer tools, management and security vendors.".
 

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eVestigator® becomes a Microsoft Certified Partner as well as joining the Azure Partner Network
Now eVestigator can assist its clients, whether in the position of "crisis consultant", "expert witness to the Court", or "expert consultant" to utilise and demonstrate new hybrid capabilities and innovations anywhere. Azure data services can benefit from cloud innovation and always up-to-date data capabilities on any hardware. Extended management capabilities can be demonstrated with Azure Arc to Linux and Windows servers as well as Kubernetes clusters on any infrastructure across datacenter, multi-cloud, and edge.

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Since 11yo, Simon began programming leading to a score in VCE in the top 2% in Australia in IT Systems Management. Shortly after, he was offered an Analyst Programmer role, and grew very fast into a young entrepreneur, CEO, founder & educator. He was an expert Programming Analyst (which included the full SDLC) and learnt many disciplines non stop as he was running his businesses, leading now to a clear path in Computer Forensics, Criminology, IT Process & Program Management, Mediation and combined Business success.

Simon attained success in businesses early and continues this path and also investigates online cases, cybercrime, cyberstalkers and fraud as an expert witness and/or consultant/adviser. The UK Police Force even sought out his skills in 2017. SecurityNow's Ken Hess has referred to Simon as "Perhaps the World's Best Investigator".

At 21, Simon was engaged to lecture advanced programming at Swinburne Uni after work, which was very successful. He also founded US/AU niche medico-legal firms. He built training Academy's and later become a Renown Detective. He has now appeared on Sky News, SBS World News (30), The Project (10), Today (9), ABC (2) and A Current Affair (9), and radio as an IT, Cyber, Fraud and Investigative Expert, has reviewed Cyber terrorism books, authored training material and has been asked to guest speak at many events.

Simon recently became a member of the Institute of iBusiness (IIB), a division of EC-Council®. He also completed the master certification in detecting deception, body language & conducting behavioral interviews by Steve Van Aperan, an expert criminal profiler known internationally for assisting police in over 68 homicides and two serial killer cases.

Simon Smith is also a master at domain based investigations, following the trail of any cyber scam or unlawful activity and is very much in touch with auDA policy and intellectual property disputes. He has successfully mediated several B2B disputes and continues to have a strong interest in this area. Having been programming (commercially and non-commercially) for over 28 years now Simon Smith knows the internet backwards. He has a full understanding of domain based hijacking, domain masking, and a full understanding of domain based phishing and pharming attacks. He is also an associate member of auDA with voting rights.

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