| Kevin
Mandia is an internationally recognized expert in the field
of information security. He has been involved with information
security for over fifteen years, beginning in the military as
a computer security officer at the Pentagon. He has assisted
attorneys, corporations, and government organizations with matters
involving information security compliance, complex litigation
support, computer forensics, expert testimony, network attack
and penetration testing, fraud investigations, computer security
incident response, and counterintelligence matters. Kevin
established MANDIANT specifically to bring together a core group
of industry leaders in this field and solve client’s most
difficult information security challenges. Prior to forming MANDIANT, Kevin built the
computer forensics and investigations group at Foundstone
from its infancy to a multimillion dollar global practice
that performed civil litigation support and incident response
services. As technical and investigative lead, Kevin
responded on-site to dozens of computer security incidents
per year. He assisted numerous financial services and large
organizations in handling and discretely resolving computer
security incidents. He also led Foundstone’s computer
forensic examiners in supporting numerous criminal and civil
cases. He has provided expert testimony on matters involving
theft of intellectual property and international computer
intrusion cases.
During his career, Kevin has become
an extremely experienced instructor. He has developed specialized
classes for the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and personally
trained over four-hundred FBI agents in investigating computer
crime. He has also developed specialized training for the
United States Attorney’s Office, United States Secret
Service, United States Air Force, State Department, the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police, and other government agencies. He
has trained at the FBI Academy, the National Advocacy Center,
and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. He developed
classes approved by the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) boards
in the States of Virginia, New York, and California, and has
trained hundreds of attorneys in the technical aspects of
computer forensics and network intrusions. In addition to
training law enforcement and attorneys, Kevin has provided
on-site training at numerous Fortune 500 organizations.
He has been a professorial lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University
and currently teaches courses at The George Washington University.
Kevin is co-author of Incident Response:
Performing Computer Forensics (McGraw-Hill, 2003) and
Incident Response: Investigating Computer Crime (McGraw-Hill,
2001). He has also written articles for SC Magazine and The
International Journal of Cyber Crime.
As a noted expert
and author, Kevin is frequently invited to speak at a
variety of forums, from legal conferences to technical security
forums. He is regularly scheduled to present at Black Hat,
Networld+Interop, TechnoSecurity, and the High Technology
Crime Investigators Association. Kevin continues to advance
the state-of-the-industry by presenting well-received articles
and books.
Kevin holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer
Science from Lafayette College and a Master of Science in
Forensic Science from The George Washington University. He
is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP),
and he has held government security clearances at the Top
Secret and higher levels. He has been featured on CNN’s
Talkback Live, NBC News, and Fox News.
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