James Childers

James Childers is the founder of AIToolworx, where he works on AI architecture, data security, and private and edge computing. His career spans more than 40 years across IT, cybersecurity, authentication, encryption, networking, cloud and secure-access technologies, with a focus on identity assurance, multi-factor authentication, biometrics and smart cards.

He is a named co-inventor on two issued U.S. patents covering medical smart-card kiosk systems (US 8,733,641 B1 and US 8,783,566 B1, both granted in 2014), and has published on multi-factor authentication, including in NATO Defence Journal (2007), and spoken at security conferences in China, Washington, D.C., Dubai, London and Mumbai.

His work has included site-security and secure-authentication projects for U.S. government agencies, including U.S. military facilities; secure smart-card and encryption work with U.S. intelligence stakeholders; contracted support to the Government of Maharashtra, India, on counter-terrorism capabilities after the 2008 Mumbai attacks; and leading site and network security for an Olympic hospitality venue at the 2008 Beijing Games.

He has postgraduate-level study in psychology and adult learning, which informs his emphasis on the human side of security.

ORCID: 0009-0005-6827-6921 · james.childers@aitoolworx.com · aitoolworx.com

Disclosure: AIToolworx has a commercial interest in AI architecture, security consulting and application of the trust-assessment methodology the paper proposes. The paper is not peer reviewed.