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Warren G. Kruse II, CISSP, CFCE

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Warren is the coauthor of “Computer Forensics: Incident Response Essentials”, published by Addison Wesley. Warren has extensive experience in computer forensic cases involving some of the largest law firms and corporations in the world.  He has conducted forensics globally in support of numerous cases, from civil disputes to criminal prosecutions at the federal level. He is a frequent lecturer on computer forensics, incident response, and cybercrime. 

Warren was the 2005 High Technology Crime Investigation Association's International President. Warren has testified as a Computer Forensics Expert. Warren Kruse testified as a computer forensic expert for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

He was awarded the High Tech Crime Investigation Association's (HTCIA) "Case of the Year" award in 2001. He is an IACIS Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE) and a (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

He is a member of numerous government-sponsored initiatives, including Board member of the National Center for Forensic Science's, Digital Evidence Certification Committee, Certification Board member of the US Association of Professional Investigators and member of the New York and European Electronic Crimes Task Forces of the US Secret Service.  Warren is a member of the USAPI's Certification Board

Warren previous experience includes being Investigations Manager, Cyber Investigations and Forensics, for Lucent Technologies.  Warren was also a sworn Police Officer in New Jersey.

He has taught computer forensics at the SANS Institute, MIS Institute and currently instructor of the Computer Forensic Services, LLC hands-on Computer Forensic Bootcamps.  Warren has taught Advanced Internet Investigations at SEARCH.  He has been interviewed as an expert on several articles that have appeared in InfoWorld, CNN, and others. Warren also appeared as a "cybercrime expert" on TechTV.

Certifications:

  • Certified Forensic Computer Examiner, (CFCE), IACIS
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), (ISC)2
  • NJ Certified Police Officer, (retired)

Elected Offices:

  • 2005 HTCIA International President
  • 2004 HTCIA International 1st Vice President
  • 2003 HTCIA Northeast 2nd. Vice President
  • 2002 HTCIA Northeast President
  • 2001 HTCIA International Treasurer
  • 2001 HTCIA Northeast First Vice President
  • 2000 HTCIA Northeast President
  • 1999 HTCIA Northeast Secretary

Misc:

  • July 21, 2008: Warren Kruse testified as a computer forensic expert for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
  • March 22, 2005: Warren Kruse appointed as a "computer expert" for a case in the US District Court District of Louisiana.
  • 5-21-04:Warren Kruse successfully provided computer forensic expert testimony for an American Arbitration Association hearing.
  • 4-14-04: Warren Kruse testified as a computer forensic expert for an American Arbitration Association hearing.
  • 2-9-04: Warren Kruse qualified and testified as a Computer Forensics Expert in NY Superior Court.
  • Warren was Computer Forensics Track Chair of Computer Security Institute's 30th annual conference.
  • Warren Kruse Chair, Digital Evidence and Computer Forensics for Attorneys conference
  • Warren was the Conference Chair for the High Technology Crime Investigative Association's (HTCIA) 2002 International Conference
  • Warren received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Director of the Secret Service for "superior contributions to the law enforcement responsibilities of the Secret Service"
  • Past Co-chair National Cybercrime Training Partnership (NCTP)
  • Member International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists
  • Member of the United States Secret Service's, Electronic Crimes Task Force (ECTF)
  • Adviser to Rochester Institute of Technology’s, Security Practices and Research Organization
  • Member of Utah Winter Olympics Security
  • Member of the 1996 Olympic Security Team, Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, Atlanta, Georgia

Awards:

  • Recipient of the High Tech Crime Investigation Association's 2004 Service Award
  • Received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Director of the US Secret Service, 2002
  • Recipient of the High Tech Crime Investigation Association 2001 "Case of the Year" Award.
  • Township of Ocean Police:
    • Recipient of Three Exceptional Service Awards
    • Honorable Service Award
    • Two Departmental Commendations
    • Two Unit Commendations (for Scuba and Emergency Response Teams)
Classes and presentations Mr. Kruse has conducted (Please check the Calendar page for upcoming classes):
  • 4/23/2006: Warren Kruse lectured on "An Auditor's Guide to Handling Evidence in Electronic Fraud Investigations" at MIS Institute's Fraud Superstrategies, Orlando, Florida
  • 4/8/2006: Warren Kruse lectured on computer forensics at MIS Institute's Infosec World Conference in Orlando Florida.
  • 3/16/2006: Warren Kruse lectured on computer forensics at ASIS International Conference in Las Vegas.
  • 1/19/2006: Warren Kruse provided a CLE class on e-mail discovery for the Marsh McLennan Litigation department.
  • 12/6 to 12/7/2005: Warren Kruse lectured on computer forensics at MIS Institute's Financial Security Conference in NY.
  • 11/14 to 11/16/2005: Warren Kruse lectured on computer forensics at the Computer Security Institute's (CSI) 32nd Annual Computer Security Conference & Exhibition
  • 10/27/2005: Warren Kruse provided a CLE Class on "Theft of Intellectual Property"
  • 10/19/2005: Warren Kruse lectured on computer forensics, high tech investigations and incident response, for the ISSA, NY.
  • 09/21/95: Warren Kruse to lectured on computer forensics at the PI Magazine's World Investigators Conference, Las Vegas Nevada.
  • 08/29/2005: Warren Kruse presented at the HTCIA International Conference and Expo, "the longest running and largest annual high tech crime conference in the world," which will be held in Monterey, Ca., Aug 29-31, 2005.
  • 06/28/2005: Warren Kruse lectured at the C3 Corporate Computing Expo, "the premier corporate & channel buying event," which was held at the Jacob Javitz Center in NY, June 28-30, 2005.
  • 06/2/2005: Warren Kruse taught computer forensics at the MIS Training Institutes (www.misti.com) eFraud Forensics event, which will be held in Boston, June 21-22, 2005.
  • May 7, 2005: Warren Kruse provided the lunch keynote on computer forensics at the divorce conference. A joint conference hosted by the New Jersey Society of CPAs, the Family Law Section of the New Jersey Bar, and the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education.
  • April 20, 2005: Warren Kruse lectured at the NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education: "Locating Hidden Assets" CLE seminar
  • April 2, 2005: Warren Kruse lectured at the NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education: "Locating Hidden Assets" CLE seminar.
  • March 30, 2005: Warren Kruse taught a network monitoring workshop at the E-crime and Computer Evidence Conference, which was held in Monaco
  • March 9, 2005: Warren Kruse lectured at the Infragard Forensics event, in New York
  • November 8, 2004, 31st Annual Computer Security Institute Conference, Intro to Computer Forensics, DC
  • June 29, 2004, FBI Regional Training Center, Ct. Network Monitoring
  • June 14, 2004, Computer Security Institute, NetSec, Intro to Computer Forensics, San Francisco
  • May 17-21, 2004 Computer Forensic Bootcamp, San Diego
  • Jan 26-30, 2004 Computer Forensic Bootcamp, DC
  • Jan 12-16, 2004 Computer Forensic Bootcamp, Florida
  • Dec 8-12, 2003 Computer Forensic Bootcamp, Florida
  • Nov 25, 2003, HTCIA Northeast, Sniffers
  • Nov 19, 2003 USSS NY Electronic Crimes task Force meeting, Sniffers
  • Nov 3-4, 2003 Computer Security Institute's 30th Annual Computer Security Conference, Washington DC. 
  • June 19-21, 2003 Virginia, Computer Forensic Bootcamp
  • June 10 and 11, 2003, Milan, Italy, Honeypots and Sniffers.  European Electronic Crimes Task Force
  • May 29-31, 2003, San Diego Computer Forensic Bootcamp
  • April 24-26, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale Computer Forensic Bootcamp
  • April 8, 2003, SEARCH, Advanced Internet Investigations
  • March 28, 2003, Mississippi State University, computer forensics.
  • Feb 27 to March 1, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Computer Forensic Bootcamp
  • Jan 29-30, 2003, San Diego, Digital Evidence and Computer Forensics for Attorneys
  • December 10-11, 2002, Jacob Javitz Center, NY, Computer Forensics.
  • August 26-28, 2002, MIS Institute, Incident Response
  • July 22-24, 2002, Computer Forensics.
  • July 17-19, 2002, MIS Institute, Computer Forensics and Incident Response
  • May 21, 2002, SEARCH, Advanced Internet Investigations, Network Forensics and Windows Domains
  • May 15, 2002, ISSA Conference: Computer Forensics and Information Security
  • April 30, 2002, Rochester Institute of Technology, Keynote: Computer Forensics and Incident Response
  • April 10, 2002, Monmouth County NJ Police Academy: Hacking and Forensics Techniques
  • March 25, 2002, Union County Police Academy: Network Investigations and Forensics
  • December 17, 2001, SEARCH, Sacramento Ca., Internal Investigations, Computer and Network Forensics
  • November 13, 2001, ASIS, Introduction to Computer Forensics
  • December 14, 2000, SEARCH, Sacramento Ca., Internal Investigations, Computer and Network Forensics
  • March 28, 2000, SANS, Orlando, Fla., Introduction to Computer Forensics
  • March 27, 2000, SANS, Orlando, Fla., Hands-On Forensics with EnCase
  • 1999 International High-tech Crime Investigative Association Conference, Computer Security and Internet Security classes
  • SANS 99, Introduction to Computer Forensics
  • 1998 HTCIA International Conference, Computer Security
  • Training Mr. Kruse has received includes:       

    2005, HTCIA International Conference HTCIA (24 hours)
    2004, HTCIA International Conference HTCIA (24 hours)
    2003, Encase Enterprise Audit and Response Guidancesoftware (40 hours)
    2003, Palm and Windows CE Paraben (16 hours)
    2003, Intrusion Detection Learingtree International (32 hours)
    2002, Advanced Encase Guidancesoftware (32 hours)
    2002, Information Security (ISC) 2 (40 hours)
    2002, NTFS Forensics New Technologies Incorporated (16 hours)
    2001, Encase  Guidancesoftware (32 hours)
    2001, Windows 2000 Server Admin  Global Knowledge (40 hours)
    2001, Cisco Routers Learningtree International (32 hours)
    2000, Data Hiding   New Technologies Incorporated (16 hours)
    2000, Computer Forensics New Technologies Incorporated (24 hours)
    1999, Incident Handling SANS Intrusion Detection 99
    1999, Advanced Windows NT Security SANS Network Security 99
    Advanced Interview and Interrogations John Reid and Associates
    Internet and Intranet Security Lucent Learning and Performance Center
    TCP/IP Administration Lucent Learning and Performance Center
    Reid Interviewing and Interrogation John A. Reid and Associates
    Lucent Managed Firewall Lucent Technologies
    Windows NT Security Learning Tree International
    1997, Computer Forensics National White Collar Crime Center (40 hours)
    1996, Computer Forensics International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (80 hours)
    NetWare 4 Administration AlphaNet Learning Center
    Networking Technologies AlphaNet Learning Center
    NetWare Engineer Brick Computer Science Institute
    Basic Recruit Class Monmouth County Police Academy
    Class II Special Officer Training Monmouth County Police Academy