James Vaughan is a Cyber Security Research Director with two decades of hands-on technical information security experience spanning consultancy, long-term secondments, and founding a specialist security firm. He has led and grown assessment teams at organisations including Symantec and @stake, run highly technical research programmes (including zero-day vulnerability management) and repeatedly qualified as a CESG CHECK team leader. James combines practical penetration testing and secure design expertise with prototyping skills to build layered defensive systems and pragmatic product security assessments. Comfortable briefing non-technical board members, he also thrives on technically challenging, research-led engagements and has a long track record delivering UK government and commercial security programmes. Based in Milton Keynes, he splits his time between client engagements, security R&D and running Recx Ltd, reflecting both entrepreneurial drive and deep operational security experience.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Business Information Technology with Busines Computer Systems, BSc (Hons), Business Information Technology with Busines Computer Systems at Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education
Contributions:8 PRs, 37 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 6 months
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James Vaughan - Cyber Security Research Director at Recx Ltd