CFET 2007: Guest Speakers
The Bunker have Kindly agreed to sponsor Adam Laurie as a guest speaker at CFET 2007.
Adam Laurie has been a senior member of staff at DEFCON since 1997, and also acted as a member of staff during the early years of the Black Hat Briefings, and is a member of the Bluetooth SIG Security Expert Group and speaks regularly on the international conference circuit on matters concerning Bluetooth security.
Adam is a non-executive director of The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd., and a freelance security consultant working the in the field of electronic communications.
Mr. Crane, a graduate of American University, Washington, DC, completed 30 years of U.S. Government service in January 1997, including 26 years in Federal law enforcement and 4 years in the United States Marine Corps. He began his law enforcement career in 1971 with the U.S. Immigration Service in California and also served as a Special Agent in Miami, Florida and Washington, D.C. He became a Supervisory Agent in Washington and soon after was selected as the first Special Agent to be assigned to the newly created Nazi War Crimes Unit in the U.S. Department of Justice.
In 1981 Mr. Crane was selected as the Deputy Director of Headquarters Operations at the Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Education. He held increasingly responsible positions in several Offices of Inspector General and, upon retirement, was the Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Investigations at the U.S. Department of State. Upon retirement from the government, Mr. Crane joined the National White Collar Crime Center in August 1997 and was promoted to Assistant Director, responsible for the Computer Crime Training Program, in the spring of 1998. As a collateral duty with NW3C, Mr. Crane served as Director of the National Cybercrime Training Partnership Operations Center. The NCTP was an international body of law-enforcement agencies, academia, and private sector companies involved in the development and delivery of high-technology training for the law enforcement community.
In 2005 Mr. Crane accepted a position with the National Centre for Policing Excellence (NCPE), in England. In April of 2007, NCPE was folded into a new agency, The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA). Mr. Crane has been Acting Head of the NPIA's High Tech Crime Training programme since July, 2006.
Mr. Crane became involved in computer crime in 1982. He has been a guest instructor at the U.S. Federal Law Enforcement Training Center's Seized Computer Evidence Recovery Specialist training program and The FBI Academy. He is certified by the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists in the seizure and analysis of computer systems. He also holds an A+ technical certification from CompTIA, Computer Technician and Windows Administrator certifications from Brainbench and is certified as an Information Systems Forensic Investigator by the International Systems Forensics Association. He has been a guest instructor for IACIS and represented the U.S. Department of State at a number of domestic and international conferences on computer crime issues. Mr. Crane also served on a number of National Institute of Justice Technical Working Groups involved in the Forensic Sciences and Digital Evidence. While residing in West Virginia, he was an Adjunct Professor at Fairmont State College and is currently enrolled in a Master's Degree in Cybercrime Forensics programme at Canterbury Christ Church University in Canterbury, England.