wgkruse@computer-forensic.com
Warren is the coauthor of "Computer Forensics: Incident Response Essentials", published by Addison Wesley. Warren has extensive experience in computer forensic cases involving some of the largest law firms and corporations in the world. He has conducted forensics globally in support of numerous cases.. He is a frequent media commentator and lecturer on computer forensics, incident response, and cybercrime.
Warren was awarded the High Tech Crime Investigation Association's (HTCIA) "Case of the Year" award. He is an IACIS Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE) and a (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
He is a member of numerous government-sponsored initiatives, including co-chair of the National Cybercrime Training Partnership and member of the New York and European Electronic Crimes Task Forces of the U.S. Secret Service. Warren is the 2004 HTCIA International Executive Committee's 1st Vice President.
Warren previous experience includes being Investigations Manager, Cyber Investigations and Forensics, for Lucent Technologies. Warren was also a sworn Police Officer in New Jersey.
He has taught computer forensics at the SANS Institute, MIS Institute and currently instructor of the hands-on Computer Forensic Bootcamp at Intenseschool. Warren also teaches Advanced Internet Investigations at SEARCH, and Incident Response at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). He has been interviewed as an expert on several articles that have appeared in InfoWorld, CNN, and others. Warren recently appeared as a "cybercrime expert" on TechTV.
peter@pmsommer.com
Peter Sommer is Senior Research Fellow and has been at the CSRC since 1994. His main research interest is the reliability of digital evidence, a subject which encompasses forensic computing and e-commerce. Together with James Backhouse he has developed the LSE's social-science orientated courses on information security management. In the last Parliament he was Specialist Advisor to the Commons Trade & Industry Select Committee while it scrutinised UK policy and legislation on e-commerce.
Recent research contracts have been carried out for the UK Financial Services Authority and the European Commission's Safer Internet Action Plan. He is an external examiner at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, and an advisor on a number of law enforcement and other committees concerned with cyber-crime and resilience. He is on the Advisory Council of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. He continues to act as an expert witness in a large number of important criminal and civil cases involving digital evidence and complex computer systems.
svein@willassen.no
Svein Y. Willassen has a M.Sc in information security from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. After the studies, Willassen has worked as a consultant at Initio AS and as a special investigator at the National Computer Crime Center in Norway. Here, he has conducted investigation of computer intrusion cases as well as computer forensics in all types of criminal investigations. During the assignment at the Computer Crime Center, Willassen has also participated in international work, such as composing the Interpol Computer Crime Manual and producing guidelines for digital evidence analysis in the International Organization on Computer Evidence.
Willassen has also been employed by Ibas AS. Here, he lead the establishment of computer forensics as a business area. As investigation manager, Willassen was responsible for a large number of forensic investigations across Europe. He also established education in computer forensics for the private sector. Willassen is today employed as researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology where he is working on the first research project within digital evidence in Scandinavia.
Svein Y. Willassen has regular assignments as lecturer, consultant and as expert witness in criminal and civil court proceedings where digital information is important.
td@vogon-international.com
Tony Dearsley is one of Vogon's three leading Forensic Consultants. Tony originated from HM Customs & Excise where his 24 year career included VAT Audit, 15 years investigating VAT, Drug Smuggling and Bootlegging offences. Tony was involved for the last 7 years in the forensic examination of computers within the National Investigation Service.
Bill Jeitner is President of the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists. IACIS® is an international volunteer non-profit corporation composed of law enforcement professionals dedicated to education in the field of forensic computer science. IACIS members represent Federal, State, Local and International Law Enforcement professionals. Regular IACIS members have been trained in the forensic science of seizing and processing computer systems.
IACIS® is dedicated to the education and certification of law enforcement professionals in the field of computer forensic science. IACIS exists to create and establish procedures, train personnel, and certify forensic examiners in the recovery of evidence from computer systems.
troyla@microsoft.com
Troy Larson is a well-known forensics expert. He has taught computer forensics to investigators at Ernst & Young when he was the Western States Area Leader for Computer Forensics Services. He has presented at many information technology conferences worldwide and is frequently called upon to provide expert testimony in civil and criminal cases. Troy focuses primarily on electronic evidence and legal support matters, as well as research and development of advanced forensic computing and investigative techniques and training. He specializes in assisting attorneys handle electronic evidence throughout all facets of litigation, including discovery and expert testimony. He is also a frequent speaker to attorney information systems, and information security groups on issues related to electronic evidence and forensic computing. Mr. Larson is an active member of the Washington State Bar. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
whitcomb@mail.ucf.edu
Carrie Morgan Whitcomb is the Director of the National Center for Forensic Science (NCFS) at UCF. She is the Executive Secretary of the Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE). She has been a Federal Crime Laboratory Director in Washington DC and a forensic scientist since 1969.
Carrie Whitcomb's first brush with Digital Evidence came in 1988 when she a computer was submitted to the Postal Inspection Service Headquarters Crime Laboratory. As Director of the laboratory and she began researching how to deal with the forensic aspects of digital evidence stored on computers. In 1995, Carrie Whitcomb established the computer forensic capabilities at the Postal Inspection Service Forensic Laboratory, Dulles Virginia and field response teams across the US and attended the IOCE meeting in Baltimore, MD that same year.
In 1998, she proposed to the Federal Crime Laboratory Directors in Washington, DC, the concept of Digital Evidence, which would include computer evidence, digital audio and digital video evidence. In 1998, Carrie Whitcomb became the first Co-Chair of Scientific Working Group for Digital Evidence (SWGDE), which is supported by the FBI. SWGDE Chair, Mark Pollitt, was Chief of the FBI Computer Analysis and Response Team (CART) and remained as Chair until 2003. In 1999, she took up the position of Director of the National Center for Forensic Science at the at UCF and expanded its mission of NCFS to include Digital Evidence.
In 2000, Carrie Whitcomb developed a Graduate Certificate in Computer Forensics at UCF and was named named Chair of the Industry and Academia Portfolio of the National Cybercrime Training Partnership (NCTP). Since 2002, she has also been named to the Editorial Board of the International Journal for Digital Evidence and Co-Chair of the NIJ Cybercrime Committee on Standards and Certification.
Carrie Whitcomb is also a sough-after speaker on the international conference circuit.
dsewell.cart@fbi.gov
Dara Sewell is the Chief Digital Evidence Forensics Unit at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Chair of the Scientific Working Group for Digital Evidence (SWGDE). Early this year, Sewell became unit chief for the digital evidence forensics unit at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI, Washington, DC). She supervises the work of forensic examiners in all FBI divisions throughout the U.S., working out of two offices, one at FBI HQ (Washington, DC) and the other at the FBI engineering research facility (Quantico, VA). Sewell joined the FBI as a special agent in 1996, with the idea of working her way into the technical area. She had a 1992 dual degree in EE and ME from the University of Maryland. Dara Sewell's initially gained her experience at the defense division of Westinghouse in Linthicum, MD, near Baltimore-Washington International airport. Most of her work at Westinghouse was electrical - digital-related jobs like laying out circuit boards and designing test boxes. She worked on radar systems including F16, B1B and AWACS. Eventually she was managing production of transmitters for the F16 radar. In 1996, she was assigned, as a new special agent, to an FBI office in West Virginia. Then in 1998 she moved to Pittsburgh and got involved with the federally funded Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), working at the team's HQ at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University. She worked on computer-related investigations as well as digital forensic examinations in which she actually processed digital media. Her next post brought her to Washington, DC HQ as a supervisory special agent of the FBI Computer Analysis Response Team.
Peter.Yapp@control-risks.com
Peter Yapp joined Control Risks Group in 2000 after their acquisition of Network Forensics. He took up his current post as Deputy Director in Network Forensics incorporating audio, video, computer evidence and investigation, fingerprint and questioned document services, in March 2002. Since joining Network Forensics in 1998, he has specialised in managing and conducting sensitive and technically challenging computer investigations and carrying out IT security (and ISO7799) reviews for blue chip companies and financial institutions.
Prior to joining Network Forensics in 1998 Peter served for 15 years with HM Customs & Excise, his career culminating in the position of Senior Investigation Officer, National Investigation Service, High Tech Crime Team. Starting in October 1992, Peter was responsible for building and managing a team of 10 investigators within the computer evidence field. Working on a variety of fraud cases including VAT and bootlegging, Peter gained experience of working jointly with the Serious Fraud Office and Police. Peter also managed the National Investigation Service IT support team of 15 providing support and security advice to 1200 Investigators based at five major sites around the country and 35 sites around the world.
Peter is a member of the Fraud Advisory Panel’s cybercrime working group. While with Customs he was Chairman of the Joint Agency Forensic Computing Group, a member of the UK delegation to the G8 sub group on High Tech Crime, and a member of the International Organisation of Computer Evidence. He has lectured and trained extensively around the world on a wide range of subjects including information security, computer evidence, and investigating computer fraud and Internet crime. He has had numerous articles published in a wide variety of publications. In addition, he has contributed to radio and television programmes on these subjects. He has appeared as an expert witness on a number of occasions, receiving judicial commendation for the high standard of his presentation of fraud work in Court.
vpg@e-symposium.com
Val-Pierre Genton is an experienced specialist within the field of B2B Internet. Val-Pierre has an established and recognised background in Business-to-Business Strategic Marketing, Business Development and Research & Development within the fields of conferences, publishing and vortals (vertical portals). After a string of appointments in middle- and senior management with companies such as the IIR (International Institute of Research) and Reed Business Information he founded e-symposium Ltd in 1999 and has grown the company to one of the world's leading B2B New Media companies. The company is internationally renowned for its clear, user-friendly and cutting edge web conferences, as well as their objective, professional content.
The e-symposium concept is a revolutionary format designed to create a unique industry intelligence platform for industry professionals in selected niche industries (Robotics, Biometrics, Cybercrime, Homeland Security and New Energy to name a few). This innovative formula facilitates industry intelligence gathering and stimulates knowledge sharing amongst industry professionals. The e-symposium concept has attracted international interest and acclaim from industry. Val-Pierre Genton is a member of the Internet Society, a member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, a member of the Institute of Directors and he is also on the advisory council of numerous communication and Internet committees. He is in demand as a speaker and is a regular writer for numerous newsletters and industry publications on topics surrounding the business-to-business new media landscape.
