Biography
Eoghan Casey is a founding partner of cmdLabs specializing in digital forensics, incident response and related training. He frequently responds to security breaches and analyzes digital evidence in a wide range of investigations, including network intrusions with international scope. He has applied digital forensics in response to security breaches to determine the origin, nature and extent of computer intrusions, and has utilized forensic and security techniques to secure compromised networks. Eoghan has performed thousands of forensic acquisitions and examinations, including e-mail and file servers, handheld devices, backup tapes, database systems, and network logs. He has testified in civil and criminal cases, and has submitted expert reports and prepared trial exhibits for computer forensic and cyber-crime cases.
Eoghan also conducts research and teaches graduate students at Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute. He has written and lectured extensively, teaching information security professionals about digital forensics, incident handling, and intrusion investigation. He is the author of the widely used textbook Digital Evidence and Computer Crime, currently in its second edition. He is also editor of the Handbook of Computer Crime Investigation, and coauthor of Malware Forensics.
Eoghan is editor-in-chief of Elsevier's international Journal of Digital Investigation, which publishes articles on digital forensics and incident response on a quarterly basis.
Previously, as a Director of Digital Forensics and Investigations at Stroz Friedberg, he co-managed the firm's technical operations in the areas of computer forensics, cyber-crime response, incident handling, and electronic discovery. In addition, he maintained an active docket of cases himself and spearheaded Stroz Friedberg's external and in-house forensic training programs as Director of Training.
Before working at Stroz Friedberg, Eoghan assisted law enforcement as a consultant in numerous criminal investigations involving on-line criminal activity and digital evidence relevant to homicides, child exploitation and other types of cases. As an Information Security Officer at Yale University, from 1999 to 2002, and in subsequent consulting work, he has performed vulnerability assessments, handled critical security breaches and policy violations, deployed and maintained intrusion detection systems, firewalls and public key infrastructures, and developed policies, procedures, and educational programs. Since 1996, Eoghan has offered on-line and in-person training covering digital forensics, incident handling, and intrusion investigation.
Eoghan holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and an M.A. in Educational Communication and Technology from New York University.
