Michael McCartney - Apple AirTags - Concerns and Challenges
Michael McCartney was most recently interviewed by NewsNation, WBEN 930am, and ABC 7 WKBW News on the safety concerns of Apple AirTags being used to track people.
During this session you will learn:
About the presenter:
Michael McCartney is the national director of cybersecurity for Avalon Cyber and is a highly decorated, 22-year veteran member of the law enforcement community having served as an assistant chief investigator for the New York State Attorney General’s Office (NYSAG), as well as five years with the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Western District of New York. Michael was the co-founder and president of DIGITS LLC, a cybersecurity and digital forensics company that merged with Avalon in 2016. He is an internationally known expert in computer crime investigations and computer forensics and has worked on some the nation’s largest cybercrime investigations.
Beginning in the mid 1990s, Michael initiated and established the Computer Forensic Unit and authored law enforcement evidence-processing standards for the NYSAG. He also established several covert and undercover electronic evidence collection procedures, which are still used as the standard today by law enforcement. Michael was also one of the original founders of the Western New York Regional Computer Forensic Lab and authored its original policies and procedures for evidence handling and processing.
Michael has been responsible for investigating several complex, high-profile, national and international computer crime cases, including unauthorized computer intrusion, theft of intellectual property, white collar crimes, securities fraud, investor protection, narcotics, and child pornography. He was responsible for one of the largest national undercover internet investigations, which netted over 200 arrests and convictions, and coordinated a complex international takedown of a group of organized law breakers. In this role, and after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, he was assigned as a task force officer (TFO) for the FBI and investigated numerous critical infrastructure and national security matters for the U.S. government.
He has served as a board member and committee chair member on numerous national and international panels, overseeing high-technology crime and computer forensic policy, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Electronic Crime Partnership Initiative (ECPI). Michael is the past president of the High Technology Crime Investigators Association (HTCIA) Northeast Chapter, and currently serves the HTCIA International Executive Committee as a co-chair of the international conference. He is a past board member of the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS) and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) Buffalo.
He has lectured extensively throughout the United States to federal, state, and local law enforcement, as well as the American Bar Association, District Attorneys Associations, the National Association of Attorneys General, and numerous trade and professional organizations, including AICPA, NYSSCPA, and IIA. He has written several publications that have been published nationally as well as regularly interviewed by numerous media and print organizations.
Michael also served as an adjunct professor at Hilbert College, teaching network security and computer forensics. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Canisius College and is a graduate from the University at Buffalo’s School of Management Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
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Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
5:30 PM - 6:45 PM EST
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1 CPE Credit (non-NASBA Certified) ACFE Tampa Bay Chapter Member - $20 Non-Members - $30
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