Cyber War Chronicles: My Path to Becoming a DFIR Consultant

Navigating your way through life can be a challenge. Having done Computer Science at Uni in the very early 00’s then joining the Police I now find myself as a Principal DFIR Consultant for one of the world’s leading Cyber companies. This talk will take you through my experiences, including my time at Napier, and provide some real world insight into the life of an IR Consultant battling with Scattered Spiders… This talk is from ENUSEC's Le Tour Du Hack 2025, A student run cyber-security conference (and CTF) based at Edinburgh Napier University. A massive thank you to this years sponsors: Quorum Cyber, Verkada, Bugcrowd, Zerodays CTF, and of course ENU's School of Computing Engineering and build environment