 David Dampier, PhD
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Dr. David A. "Dave" Dampier is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Mississippi State University where he serves as Director of the National Forensics Training Center (FTC). The FTC is a DOJ funded organization that provides free training in digital forensics to law enforcement officers across the country. He also conducts research and directs graduate students in the areas of digital forensics and software engineering. He is also a retired Army officer with twenty years experience in the military culminating with tours at the Army Research Laboratory and the National Defense University.
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Nicole Beebe, PhD
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Nicole Lang Beebe, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems & Technology Management, at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). UTSA a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance for both education (CAEIAE) and research (CAE-R). Dr. Beebe received her Ph.D. in Information Technology from UTSA, an M.S. degree in Criminal Justice from Georgia State University, and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University. She has over twelve years experience in information security and digital forensics, from both the commercial and government sectors. She was a computer crime investigator for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations from 1998-2007. She has been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) since 2001. She is a licensed private investigator in the state of Texas and holds two certifications in digital forensics (EnCE and ACE). She has published several journal articles related to information security in digital forensics in The DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, Digital Investigation, and Journal of Information System Security (JISSEC). Her research interests include digital forensics, information security, and data mining.
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K. David Benton
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K. David Benton has spent the past eleven consecutive years collecting and processing digital evidence and security. Mr. Benton has served in leadership positions from a leading fortune 50 company, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the US Army. He has been qualified and testified as an expert witness on digital evidence in 18 separate cases throughout Georgia. As a Counterintelligence Special Agent, he spent five years interviewing, interrogating and observing individuals then submitting detailed investigative reports. He held a Top Secret/ SCI clearance (expired in 2001). In 1996 his US Army unit was awarded the Central Intelligence Agency’s Meritorious Unit Citation for it's work during Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti. Mr. Benton is very active in the not for profit community and preventing home burglaries and home invasion. He has authored various books and articles including home security and digital evidence. He is passionate about educating the public on how to prevent a home break-in, home invasion, window break-in or door break-in through his blog - click here.
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Nancy Brassfield
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Scott Carlson
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Mr. Carlson founded and co-chairs Seyfarth Shaw’s eDiscovery practice and is nationally known in the area of eDiscovery. His practice is almost entirely devoted to eDiscovery and high technology issues from both the consulting and litigation perspective. Mr. Carlson teaches a Masters of Law course on the subjects of eDiscovery, digital evidence, and computer forensics.
Mr. Carlson’s strong technical background includes a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics and experience working in the private industry as a software engineer. He has represented clients in the myriad issues related to eDiscovery and high technology matters including electronic document preservation, production, spoliation, and computer forensics. Mr. Carlson has represented clients in a wide range of commercial disputes including commercial contracts, purchase agreements, lease agreements, Uniform Commercial Code transactions, misappropriation of trade secrets, software licensing agreements shareholder suits, and tortious interference claims. He has also defended clients in actions involving negligence, wrongful death, fraud, retaliatory discharge, mass tort, and a variety of class actions.
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Dean Chatfield
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Mr. Chatfield was with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office (Phoenix, AZ), the Mancos Police Department (Mancos, CO), and the Phoenix Police Department (Phoenix, AZ) for a total of 25 years. His career started with the Phoenix Police Department where he was assigned to specialty squads and was promoted to Squad training officer working with new recruits. He moved his family to Colorado where he held the position of Chief of Police for the Mancos Police Department. He returned to Arizona and finished out his career at the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. He was an investigator assigned to the Organized Crime Unit and conducted all of the computer related investigations as well as high profile white collar crime and political corruption investigations prior to his retirement. He has conducted several hundred computer based investigations since 1986 and is a member of the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS). He was the first person to receive IACIS certification and went on to serve the organization as Vice President and President. He was instrumental in formalizing the IACIS certification program and established a coaching system for students. He served as the Chairman of the IACIS Certification committee from 1993 to 1998. He was recognized by IACIS for his contributions to the field of computer forensics, and was awarded Lifetime Membership status.
Over the last 13 years Mr. Chatfield has served as a Computer Crimes Specialist instructor. He has trained state, local and federal enforcement officers from across the country, instructed several classes at the FBI Academy, Quantico, VA and conducted international training courses in Belgium and Hong Kong. He is a member of the Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE). |
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Greg Gunsch, PhD
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Professor Gregg Gunsch is a retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel, with over 20 years of professional experience troubleshooting electrical, computer, and software anomalies. At the USAF's graduate school, the Air Force Institute of Technology, he developed and taught graduate-level courses for fourteen years in computer engineering, artificial intelligence, and information system security/assurance. During this time he directed research and published papers in several areas, including the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to steganalysis, digital forensics, virus and intrusion detection, intelligent tutoring, diagnosis, and computer-generated forces; visualization and management of uncertainty in decision support systems; and telemetry and network performance improvement. Professor Gunsch currently teaches all of the Defiance College courses in forensics, operating systems and computer security. He also provides digital forensics technology training to local law enforcement personnel in partnership with the Family Justice Center of NorthWest Ohio.
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Patrick Zeller
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Patrick E. Zeller is corporate eDiscovery Counsel at Gilead Sciences. He is responsible for the search collection and preservation of electrically stored information (ESI) related to litigation and internal investigations. He writes and speaks regularly on topics related to eDiscovery, privacy, and information governance and the intersection between law and technology.
Patrick is an Adjunct Professor and Distinguished Lecturer at The John Marshall Law School’s Information Technology and Privacy Law LLM program, where he teaches the “eDiscovery, Digital Evidence and Computer Forensics” class. He also holds several certifications in computer forensics, including EnCE, is a member of the Sedona Conference, is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), is a member of the national Board of Directors of the American Society of Digital Forensics and eDiscovery (ASDFED). |
