University of Warwick Coventry
United Kingdom

Bil Hallaq is a cyber security researcher with more than 15 years of academic, commercial and industrial experience. He previously spent several years handling and mitigating against various security threats and vulnerabilities within commercial environments. He is delivering on various projects including: the identification and application of novel techniques for OSINT, EU E-CRIME Project - comprised of several European partners including Interpol where he is working with partners on understanding criminal structures and mapping cybercriminal activities to produce and recommend effective countermeasures. His other applied research areas include identifying methods and techniques for cross border cyber attack attribution, mitigation at scale of complex multi-jurisdictional cyber events, and,  maritime  and  rail  cyber  security.  He  holds several professional qualifications including: penetration testing, incident response, malware investigation, digital forensics investigation amongst others.