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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. | 