Lance Mueller
Director of Forensics, Executive Forensics
With a successful career in Law Enforcement and forensics spanning 24 years, Lance spent his first 14 in LE; including a 5-year stint investigating high-tech crimes as a DA investigator assigned to California’s Computer and Technology Crime High-Tech Response team (CATCH). With CATCH, Lance was lead investigator on a number of high-profile criminal cases, including a global hacking case where the suspects were jailed for helping create a virus that affected thousands of computers globally: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4319942.stm. The case was also highlighted in Malicious Bots – An inside look into the Cyber-Criminal Underground of the Internet – a book Lance contributed to. In 2003, Lance left Law Enforcement for a position with Guidance Software as a Master Instructor and trainer for law enforcement, military, government and corporate examiners. While there, he developed several of the training courses that are still in use by the company. Lance then transitioned to Guidance’s professional services division where he conducted incident response and forensic examinations for many of their Fortune 500 clients. Lance then took a position with the US Department of State Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA) program in 2005, travelling to multiple countries to teach digital forensics best practices, setting up computer forensics laboratories and conducting forensic capability assessments. Lance has worked with several large organizations such as Qualcomm, IBM and was most recently been contracted by Magnet Forensics (Waterloo, Ontario based) as their Director of Forensics and now serves as a Special Advisor to the management team. Lance also maintains a hugely popular forensics blog: www.ForensicKB.com
With a successful career in Law Enforcement and forensics spanning 24 years, Lance spent his first 14 in LE; including a 5-year stint investigating high-tech crimes as a DA investigator assigned to California’s Computer and Technology Crime High-Tech Response team (CATCH). With CATCH, Lance was lead investigator on a number of high-profile criminal cases, including a global hacking case where the suspects were jailed for helping create a virus that affected thousands of computers globally: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4319942.stm. The case was also highlighted in Malicious Bots – An inside look into the Cyber-Criminal Underground of the Internet – a book Lance contributed to. In 2003, Lance left Law Enforcement for a position with Guidance Software as a Master Instructor and trainer for law enforcement, military, government and corporate examiners. While there, he developed several of the training courses that are still in use by the company. Lance then transitioned to Guidance’s professional services division where he conducted incident response and forensic examinations for many of their Fortune 500 clients. Lance then took a position with the US Department of State Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA) program in 2005, travelling to multiple countries to teach digital forensics best practices, setting up computer forensics laboratories and conducting forensic capability assessments. Lance has worked with several large organizations such as Qualcomm, IBM and was most recently been contracted by Magnet Forensics (Waterloo, Ontario based) as their Director of Forensics and now serves as a Special Advisor to the management team. Lance also maintains a hugely popular forensics blog: www.ForensicKB.com
