During a full military career Andrew Jones directed both Intelligence and Security operations and briefed the results at the highest level and was awarded the MBE for his service in Northern Ireland. After 25 years service with the British Army’s Intelligence Corps he became a business manager and a researcher and analyst in the area of Information Warfare and computer crime at a defense research establishment.

In Sept 2002, on completion of a paper on a method for the metrication of the threats to information systems, he left the defense environment to take up a post as a principal lecturer at the University of Glamorgan in the subjects of Network Security and Computer Crime and as a researcher on the Threats to Information Systems and Computer Forensics. At the university he developed and managed a well equipped Computer Forensics Laboratory and took the lead on a large number of computer investigations and data recovery tasks.

He holds a Ph.D. in the area of threats to information systems. In January 2005 he joined the Security Research Centre at BT where he became a Chief Researcher and the head of information security research. During his time at BT he managed a number of research projects and led a series of projects into residual data on second hand media. He holds a post as a visiting Professor at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia and he is currently the Programme Chair for the M.Sc. in Information Security at Khalifa University in Sharjah, UAE.

THE CRIMINAL USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS

This session examines the potential dangers that individuals face when using social networking sites and looks at the ways in which criminals are using these sites. In particular, the presentation will look at the levels of information that people expose on the sites and the value of this information to a criminal. It will also look at the ways in which criminals can exploit these sites to carry out a range of activities.