Todd G. Shipley
Todd G. Shipley is president and CEO of Vere Software. He has more than 25 years of experience in law enforcement: from investigating financial and computer crimes to overseeing the training of high-tech crimes investigators. Between 2004 and 2007, Mr. Shipley was the Director of Systems Security and High Tech Crime Prevention Training—and manager of the National Criminal Justice Computer Laboratory and Training Center—for SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics. Prior to joining SEARCH, Mr. Shipley served for 25 years with the Reno (Nevada) Police Department. As a Senior Detective Sergeant managing the agency's Financial and Computer Crimes Unit, he investigated serious financial offenses; developed cyber and technology crime investigative policy; and served as a liaison to other law enforcement, intelligence, and government agencies and industry bodies. During this time, he formed Nevada's first Computer Crime Investigations Unit.
Collection of Evidence from the Internet: Part 2
The question for digital forensic examiners is not only how to collect and document information from the cloud, but also whether the same acquisition and documentation methodology used for internet evidence can be used in the collection, preservation, and presentation of cloud-based evidence.
Collection of Evidence from the Internet: Part 1
The prospect of trying to obtain legally defensible digital evidence from the Internet is headache-worthy to many—but not impossible. Rather than collect, examine, analyze, and report as computer forensic examiners do, investigators instead need to collect and preserve the evidence as found for later presentation.
