Biographies
Rob Attoe is a Director within the training department at Cellebrite, where he leads the training departments business development and delivery of course content across all disciplines, ensuring the curriculum and delivery concepts, which are of the highest standards within the industry as well production of customized courses tailored for mobile forensic practitioners globally. Attoe also leads the research in to forensic artifacts found on various operating systems and regularly presents finding are large conferences globally. Previously as SVP of Global Training at Nuix and Director of Training at AccessData, Attoe has over a decade of experience developing Digital Forensics and Decryption training programs for the global digital investigations community.
In the past, Attoe has held positions as a Computer Crime Specialist II with the National White Collar Crime Centre, where his primary focus was the research and development of a file system analysis and automated forensic tool curriculum, and with the Kent Police as a Forensic Computer Analyst.
As a certified member of the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS), Attoe has instructed at the association’s annual conference, as well as regularly presenting at the premier international digital forensics conferences and events such as High Technology Crime Investigation Association, Department of Defence Cyber Crime, F3 Annual Conference, and Internet Crimes against Children taskforce. Attoe has authored and taught many digital forensic courses globally as well as coauthoring a course for The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit in the United Kingdom and advanced courses for IACIS.
Kimberly A. DeTardo-Bora is a Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Marshall University where she serves as both undergraduate and graduate program directors. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2003. Dr. DeTardo-Bora has carried out state and federal-level grant projects to evaluate court-appointed special advocate programs, domestic violence programs, the weed and seed program, and housing authority programs. Her most recent endeavor has been exploring the world of “hacktivists.” Besides a book titled, West Virginia’s Criminal Justice System published with co-authors Dhruba J. Bora and Samuel L. Dameron, Dr. DeTardo-Bora’s research has been published in scholarly venues such as Action Research, Corrections Compendium, Security Journal, and Women and Criminal Justice.
Dhruba J. Bora is a Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, as well as an Associate Dean of the College of Science at Marshall University in Huntington, WV. He received his Ph.D. degree in Criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Over the past 20 years, he has worked on several grants funded by the U.S. Department of Justice in the areas of community policing and domestic violence and has published on topics related to campus safety and security, crime prevention, juvenile justice, and counterterrorism.
Margaret Phipps Brown is a graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College (B.A., 1976) and Emory University School of Law (J.D., 1979). She has been an attorney licensed to practice in West Virginia since 1979. She is a professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Marshall University, where she has taught for 35 years. She has served as a part-time assistant prosecuting attorney with the Cabell County, West Virginia Prosecuting Attorney’s Office from 1988 to 2015, where her responsibilities include coordinating the multidisciplinary child abuse task force and prosecution of felony cases, including technology-facilitated crimes against children.
Josh Brunty is a former digital forensics laboratory manager and examiner. Josh Brunty has over a decade of experience in the field of digital forensics and investigations. Josh is currently an Assistant Professor of Digital Forensics for the Department of Integrated Science and Technology and Forensic Science Departments at Marshall University. Prior to joining Marshall University, Josh spent several years as a Digital Forensics Examiner and Technical Leader assisting in many high-profile cases for agencies around his home state of West Virginia, as well as serving on several federal and state-level cyber-crime task forces. Josh holds numerous certifications within the digital forensics discipline including: AccessData Certified Examiner (ACE), Cellebrite Certified Physical and Logical Analyst (CCPA/CCLO), AccessData Mobile Examiner (AME), Computer Hacking Forensic Examiner (CHFI), Seized Computer Evidence Recovery Specialist (SCERS), Certified Malware Investigator, Certified Steganography Examiner, and is certified by the National Security Agency in Information Assurance Methodology (NSA-IAM).
He has developed a variety of digital forensic training sessions and curriculum, including past recertification scenarios/examinations for the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS). Josh has also authored numerous articles, publications, and texts on topics such as: digital and mobile forensics, social media forensics, and image and video forensics. Josh is a member of the Mid-Atlantic Association of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA), the Digital-Multimedia Sciences section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), the NIST OSAC subcommittee on digital evidence, the Appalachian Institute of Digital Evidence (AIDE), the West Virginia Cyber Crimes Task Force, and the West Virginia Chapter of FBI INFRAGARD.
Shawn Jordan is a recent graduate from Marshall University. He majored in Digital Forensics and Information Assurance and graduated Summa Cum Laude. He is the cocreator of Network Scout, a distributed Intrusion Detection System. He has spoken at DerbyCon, Hack3rCon, and AIDE. He is currently working on another open-source project. While at Marshall University, he started a middle school group helping children learn Python, received an STEM grant to help build Network Scout, and was a treasure for Marshall’s Colligate Cyber Defense Challenge team. He leads a small college group at a local church. He plans on perusing the Offensive Security Certified Professional certification. He will be speaking at SecureWV on the future of education and Information Security.
Sean Leshney is the Chief Digital Forensics Investigator for the Tippecanoe County Prosecutor’s Office in Lafayette, IN. He is a US Navy veteran and has been involved in law enforcement with several agencies since 2000. He currently leads the Tippecanoe County High Tech Crime Unit (HTCU) and is a member of the Indiana Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force. He has been a forensic interviewer of child victims for sexual and physical abuse since 2009. In 2008, he graduated a Master of Science with a specialization in the area of Cyber Forensics. He has instructed numerous law enforcement officers and graduate courses at Purdue University in the area of digital evidence. He has testified numerous times in state and federal court for digital evidence investigations. He is a member of the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS) and is a Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE). He also holds certifications in several forensic software tools.
Preston Miller, a Texas native, obtained his undergraduate degree at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. While obtaining his masters in Digital Forensics at Marshall University, he worked closely with the West Virginia State Police Digital Forensics Unit and taught two classes to first-year graduate students. Preston was the sole recipient of the prestigious J. Edgar Hoover Scientific Scholarship in 2014 in recognition of his academic achievements. Preston is currently a consultant at a large and well-regarded global technology consulting firm working out of their headquarters in New York City.
Dr. Mark M. Pollitt, Ph.D., for 40 years has served as a military officer in the United States Marine Corps and Coast Guard; a Special Agent, executive, and forensic scientist for the Federal Bureau of Investigation; a consultant; and an educator. After service in the military, he joined the FBI and was a “Street Agent” for over 10 years. He helped to develop and build the FBI’s digital forensic program and retired as the Chief of the Computer Analysis Response Team and Director of the Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory Program.
After retirement from the FBI, he became a consultant and a full-time academic. His last post was as Associate Professor of Engineering Technology and Principal Investigator on a large National Science Foundation grant focusing on cyber forensics.
Dr. Pollitt holds a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University, a Master of Science from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and holds numerous professional certifications.
Marcus K. Rogers, Ph.D., CISSP, CCCI, DFCP, is a Professor and Dept. Head in Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University. He is a University Faculty Scholar, Fellow of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), and Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS). Dr. Rogers is also the Co-Editor of the IEEE Privacy and Security Cyber Crime Department and Chair of the NIST/OSAC-DE Education Sub-committee. His areas of research and interest cover the behavioral aspects of the deviant use of technology, cyber criminal behavioral analysis, and understanding cyber terrorism.
Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer and Information Technology (CIT) at Purdue University. She has multiple publications and conference paper presentations, including international presentations in India, Ireland, Russia, and South Korea, on the who and why of cybercrime. Specifically, Dr. Seigfried-Spellar studies the personality characteristics and socio-legal factors associated with cyberdeviance, such as Internet child pornography use, hacking, cyberbullying, trolling, and cyber threats via social media. In addition, Dr. Seigfried-Spellar has published in the area of digital forensics, specifically the ability to conduct a behavioral analysis of digital forensic evidence from child pornography investigations. She is a member of the Digital and Multimedia Sciences section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), the IEEE Computer Society, International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA), and the American Psychological Association (APA). Dr. Seigfried-Spellar also serves as an editorial board member for the Journal of Digital Forensics, Security, and Law, as well as the International Journal of Psychology and Cyber Crime.