2023 International Conference and Expo

Welcome to Cyber Investigators Big Event! September 19-21, 2023

Phoenix, Arizona

Platinum Sponsor:

Micro Focus is not Open Text

Gold Sponsor:

Vound

Blockchain

Bronze Sponsors:

Atola

Monolith Forensics

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39th ANNUAL HTCIA Conference and EXPO!

⬅️ 2022

Join us September 19-21, 2023 only in-person in Phoenix, AZ for timely educational sessions, engaging networking opportunities, and dedicated time to connect with sponsors.

This year’s conference includes topics related to Cloud forensics, Cryptocurrency investigations, qualifications of the digital forensic examiner as a witness, forensic analysis of data in an SQLite database, PowerShell of Incident Response, OSINT techniques, IOS Forensics and many more technology investigation topics. These courses will also for the first time qualify attendees of the training blocks for required certification hours for the HTCIA partnership with the National White Collar Crimes Center’s certifications.

In addition to the educational events, our annual awards for Case of the Year, Chapter of the Year and our Life-Time Achievement winners will be announced. We hope you will consider joining us in-person at our awards celebration to help celebrate the accomplishments of these outstanding individuals.

Have questions? Please email contact@htcia.org.

IN-PERSON

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Agenda At-A-Glance

September 19

September 20

September 21

September 19

Agenda *Subject to change

8:00 AM - Registration/Breakfast

9:00 AM to 9:15 AM - General Session Welcome - Warren Kruse

9:15 AM to 10:15 AM - Keynote Speaker Heather Mahalik

10:15 AM 10:45 AM - Networking Break / Visit Vendors

10:45 AM - 11:45 AM - Breakout Sessions 1A/1B/1C/1D

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM - Lunch

12:45 PM - 1:45 PM - Breakout Sessions 2A/2B/2C/2D

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM - Networking Break / Visit Vendors

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM - Plenary - Bill Colloman

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM - Networking Break / Visit Vendors

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM - Breakout Sessions 3A/3B/3C/3D

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM - Happy Hour Gathering

September 20

Agenda *Subject to change

8AM - Registration/Breakfast

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM - Keynote Speaker David Cowen

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM - Networking Break/Visit Vendors

10:30AM - 11:30 AM - Breakouts

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Awards Lunch

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM - Breakouts

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM - Networking Break/Visit Vendors

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Breakouts

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM - Networking Break/Visit Vendors

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM - Closing Keynote Speaker Devon Ackerman

4:30 PM - 4:45 PM - Conference Closing President Warren Kruse

5:00 - 6:30 PM - Networking Reception

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September 21

Agenda *Subject to change

6:00 AM - 3:00 PM - Golf Outing (tee times 6:35 am - 7:15 am

8:00 AM - Breakfast

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM - Post Conference Training TBD

Keynote Speakers

Heather Mahalik

Senior Director
Cellebrite

Bio

Heather Mahalik is the Senior Director of Digital Intelligence at Cellebrite. At the SANS Institute, Heather is the DFIR Curriculum Lead, fellow instructor, as well as the author & the course lead for FOR585: Smartphone Forensic Analysis In-Depth. Heather also maintains www.smarterforensics.com, where she blogs and hosts work from the digital forensics community and is the co-author of Practical Mobile Forensics (1st and 2nd editions) from Pack't Publishing. Heather has worked on high-stress and high-profile cases, investigating everything from child exploitation to Osama Bin Laden's media, and has helped law enforcement, eDiscovery firms, and the federal government extract and manually decode artifacts used in solving investigations around the world.

Heather began working in digital forensics in 2002, and has been passionate about mobile forensics since 2010 - there's hardly a device or platform she hasn't researched or examined or a commercial tool she hasn't used.

David Cowen

Vice President
Charles River Associates

Bio

David Cowen is a vice president in CRA’s Forensic Services Practice based in Plano, Texas.

David joins CRA with over 25 years of digital forensics, information security, and cyber incident response experience – helping clients identify and protect their most valuable information and responding to allegations of trade secret theft and cyber incidents. He has extensive experience testifying since 2002 on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants on theft of trade secret cases and on a range of other digital forensic subjects including software piracy, insider trading, and electronic document authenticity issues.

Prior to joining CRA, David co-founded and led a digital forensics and cyber incident response consulting business for over 14 years until he and his colleagues were acquired by a Big Four accounting firm. For the past three years, David served as a leader within that firm’s cyber incident response practice, where he led the response to one of most massive and consequential cyber breaches in history, which resulted in sanctions being imposed by the US government on numerous foreign intelligence officials.

David is a recognized thought leader; a frequently requested speaker; an author of numerous articles, white papers, and five books on digital forensics; and a SANS-certified instructor. David is the lead author of the SANS FOR509: Enterprise Cloud Forensics class. David is the host of The Forensic Lunch, a popular digital forensics and incident response podcast and live YouTube show. David holds a patent in Digital Forensics for NTFS File system journaling forensics. He is a seven-time Forensic 4cast award winner for Digital Forensic Article of the Year, Digital Forensic Show of the Year, and Digital Forensic Blog of the Year. David has just completed his 16th year as the red team leader for the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.

David holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas, as well as the CCP, CISSP, CCFP, GCFE, and ACE certifications.

Devon Ackerman

Global Head of Incident Response
Kroll

Bio

Devon Ackerman is the Global Digital Forensic and Incident Response Services Leader for Kroll’s Cyber Risk practice. His background is as a hands-on digital forensic and incident response investigator engaged by Clients and Law Firms globally to consult on matters ranging from corporate espionage to network intrusions to ransomware to data breaches. He draws extensive experience in the investigation and remediation of cyber-related threats, trends and tactics from his prior career with the FBI, but also from involvement in Kroll's nearly 3,000 annual investigations. Devon founded and manages AboutDFIR.com, one of the internet's leading Digital Forensic and Incident Response repositories of related knowledge and information sharing.

Speakers

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Warren Kruse

President
HTCIA International

Bio

Chambers and Partners Ranked eDiscovery Expert, five years in a row (2018-2022). Warren has experience working in law enforcement and as a consultant, supporting law firms and corporations globally with incident response, computer forensics and Electronic Discovery. He is a co author of Computer Forensics: Incident Response Essentials. Warren was ranked as a top Professional Adviser in the 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 Chambers Litigation Support guide.

Testified as a Computer Forensic Expert for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Conducted the computer and network forensics in the billion dollar "Comtraid" theft of Intellectual Property and Trade Secrets, for which he received the High Tech Crime Investigation Association’s Case of the Year Award. - frequent lecturer on computer forensics, incident response, and cybercrime. He has lectured internationally for groups including: SANS, Certified Fraud Examiners, ISSA, HTCIA, etc.

Denis Roussel

1st VP
HTCIA International

Bio

Experienced technology investigator with the Government of Canada since 2001. Denis is the National Manager Digital Forensics and Major Case Management with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Denis was Chief Technology Security at the Department of Justice Canada for over 8 years. He was also an Electronic Evidence Investigator with the Competition Bureau Canada as well as Manager with Shared Services Canada.

Denis completed with Honours both the Information Systems Security and the Public and Private Investigations program at Algonquin College. Was part-time instructor for the OSINT courses for 5 years. Was a licensed Private investigator in both Ontario and Quebec. Volunteered by giving various workshops on Digital Forensics, to post-secondary cyber security programs and to other government partners.

Denis was also HTCIA Ottawa President in 2017, 2020 and 2021 and has been on the organizing committee for the HTCIA Canada Cyber Investigation Summit for the past 4 years.

Jessica Hyde

2nd VP
HTCIA International

Bio

Jessica Hyde is an experienced forensic examiner in both the government and commercial sectors having worked as a contractor providing forensics services to the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. She currently serves as a Consultant to Magnet Forensics where she was the Director of Forensics and is Adjunct Professor teaching Mobile Forensics in the graduate program at George Mason University, where she achieved an MS in Computer Forensics. Jessica is the host of Cache Up, a weekly podcast where she interviews digital forensics practitioners. She is also involved in several community efforts including as a volunteer for the Marine Corps Cyber Auxiliary, Chair of DFIR Review, 1st Vice President of the New York Metro High Tech Crime International Association Chapter, advisory board for Cyber Sleuths Lab, and a member of the Editorial Board for the Forensic Science International: Digital Investigations Journal. Her previous roles included performing forensic examinations as a Sr. Mobile Exploitation Analyst for Basis Technology, Senior at EY, and Senior Electrical Engineer at American Systems. Jessica is also proud to be a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.

Laura Chappell

Founder/CEO Chappell University

Bio

Laura Chappell is a highly energetic speaker and author of numerous industry titles on network communications, analysis and security. Laura has presented to thousands of State, Federal and international law enforcement officers, judicial members, engineers, network administrators, technicians and developers. Ms. Chappell is a member of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) and an Associate Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) since 1989. Her blend of humor, personal experiences, energy, and clarity have earned her a top spot as an industry speaker at Microsoft, Novell, Hewlett-Packard, High Technology Crime Investigation Association and US Court conferences. In 2007, Ms. Chappell founded Wireshark University, an educational firm devoted to teaching the art of wiretapping/communications interception, network forensics, digital deception, and decoys, traceback and reconnaissance. Sadly, in 2019, Riverbed (as the driving force and corporate members of the mysterious "Wireshark Foundation") decided to "monetize Wireshark assets" and took back the Wireshark University name in favor of licensing it out to anyone who wanted to pay for it.

Cynthia Navarro

President

OSMOSIS

Bio

Cynthia Navarro is an experienced investigations professional with over 40 years of experience. She has worked in various Silicon Valley companies for over 30 years and has a deep understanding of the tech industry. She has held various positions with the HTCIA Silicon Valley Chapter and is currently the President of the Silicon Valley Chapter. Additionally, she is President for OSMOSIS, an association for OSINT'ers. Her involvement in these professional associations demonstrates her dedication to advancing the field of investigations and staying connected with other professionals in the industry.

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Renaissance Phoenix Downtown

Renaissance Phoenix Downtown is in the heart of Phoenix, within a 10-minute walk of Phoenix Symphony Hall and Phoenix Convention Center. This 4-star hotel is 0.4 mi (0.7 km) from Chase Field and 6.1 mi (9.9 km) from Grand Canyon University.

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