Educational Presenter

  Brian Karney, CISSP

Guidance Software Director of Product Management and Product Marketing

               

Bio Summary

Information security and incident has always been top of mind for Brian Karney, Director of Product Management and Product Marketing at Guidance Software, and he has been at the forefront of technological advances in the field for almost 10 years.

Responsible for the direction and vision of Guidance Software’s solutions, Karney’s technical expertise and broad-based business knowledge in forensics, incident response, enterprise security management, system architecture, and infrastructure analysis make him an integral part of the Guidance Software team.

Prior to joining Guidance Software, Karney worked for CenterBeam, a Silicon Valley IT outsourcing company that delivers a range of critical IT infrastructure services for mid-sized clients across the US. While at CenterBeam, he pioneered some of the first uses of multi forest active directory services to deliver secure distributed IT subscription services to multiple companies.

During his early days in the incident response field, Brian Karney was one of an elite few that responded to some of the first-ever email born computer viruses and worms as a virus security consultant at Network Associates Global Professional Services. His extensive experience in computer security also helped him develop antivirus defense solutions and security assessments for some of the largest companies in the world.

As an infrastructure management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers he played a key role developing strategies to migrate traditional manufacturing organizations from midrange systems to homogenous windows environments.

Karney was also a contributing author and technical editor for the “Hacking Exposed” computer forensic book. He has also spoken at over 75 technical conferences around the world on topics dealing with all aspects of computer investigations and incident response.
 

Topic of Presentation:

“Computer Forensics As a Platform for Solving Enterprise Investigative Challenges”