Eric has been breaking things just to fix them again since before he could walk, at 20, he spent his summer evenings as a nightclub bouncer, and read tarot cards during the day. He didn’t realise it back then, but nothing could have prepared him better for a career in Infosec, trying to predict the future, whilst ducking punches.
At only nine years old he was expelled from University when it became apparent that he had hacked the grading system, (not to improve his own grades, but to lower everyone else's). He might have gotten away with it if he hadn't accidently reduced his own date of birth by 10 years.
Eric cut his teeth as a technologist for the BBC World Service in London, where he learned the importance of ‘educate, inform and entertain’ he also developed his passion for emerging technologies with a bent for security. Arriving in Australia in 2003 he landed an operational role at Australia’s first IP Telco, and has since served hard time at Telstra, Stratsec/BAE Systems, Datacom, CSC and Finally Hivint/Trustwave.
Eric is a regular presented on the conference circuit, evangelises a healthy level of cynicism and speaks about privacy, security and the myth of infallibility in humans.
