The January 18, 2014, episode of
American Heroes Radio features a conversation with retired Special Agent Jim
Christy, Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
Program Date: January 18, 2014
Program Time: 1500
hours, PACIFIC
Topic: Espionage to
Murder: The First Cyber Detective
Listen Live: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lawenforcement/2014/01/18/espionage-to-murder-the-first-cyber-detective
About the Guest
Jim Christy left the government in
July 2013 after 42 years of public service and now started his own consulting
firm, The Christy Group, LLC. He has
also partnered with eventPower to reincarnate the DoD Cyber Crime Conference
into the U.S. Cyber Crime Conference.
Jim is a retired special agent that has specialized in cyber crime
investigations and digital forensics for over 27 years with the Air Force
Office of Special Investigation and Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center
(DC3). Jim retired in Nov 2006 as a
Special Agent and immediately returned to the federal government and DC3 first
as an IPA and later as an HQE (Highly Qualified Expert) senior appointed by the
Secretary of the AF as the Director of Futures Exploration (FX) for the DC3. FX
the DC3 innovation incubator was responsible for Communication
outreach/marketing, cyber workforce development and strategic relationships
with other government organizations, private sector, and academia.
In May 2011, the Air Force
graduated the first NCO’s for a new AF career field, Cyber Defense Operations,
at Keesler AFB, MS. The staff of the
course honored Jim by presenting the top graduate of the class with the “Jim
Christy Award”. Jim was also selected to
make the first presentation of the award and be the keynote speaker for the
inaugural course.
In 2010, to fill a National void
of qualified digital forensic examiners, Jim created the National Center for
Digital Forensics Academic Excellence (CDFAE) Program, a partnership between
DC3 and academia. CDFAE fosters the
digital forensic field and encourages growth in a specific STEM field
supporting the National Initiative Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Framework
Domains. CDFAE develops a partnership
between academia and the government to establish standards and best practices
for digital forensics practitioners, educators, and researchers to advance the
discipline of Digital Forensics and increase the number of qualified
professionals to meet the needs of law enforcement, counterintelligence,
national defense and legal communities as well as critical infrastructure
owners and operators.
In 2006, Christy created the DC3
Digital Forensics Challenge an international competition that in 2012 had 1,800
participants spanning 49 states and 53 countries. The exercises are designed to
develop, hone, and engage participants in the fields of cyber investigation,
digital forensics, and cyber security.
It is one of the first venues to employ crowd sourcing in “real world”
mission focused solution development.
Jim has been asked by Mr. Jeff
Moss and the Black Hat & Defcon organizers to create and moderate the “Meet
the Fed” panel for approximately 12 years.
Jim brings together the current and former senior cyber government
leaders for multiple panel discussions before the world’s largest hacker
convention.
From Nov 2003 – Nov 2006, Special
Agent Jim Christy, was the Director of the Defense Cyber Crime Institute
(DCCI), DC3. The DCCI is responsible for
the research & development and test & evaluation of digital forensic
and investigative tools for the DoD Law Enforcement and Counterintelligence
community.
From 17 Sep 2001 – 1 Nov 2003, Jim
was the Deputy Director/Director of Operations, Defense Computer Forensics Lab,
DC3. As the Dir of Ops for the DCFL he managed four sections with over 40
computer forensic examiners that supported Major Crimes & Safety,
Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism, as well as Intrusions and Information
Assurance cases for the Department of Defense.
Christy testified before a Florida
Select Committee on Terrorism in Dec 2001 at their request, as a result of the
911 attack.
From May 1998 – Sep 2001, Jim was
assigned to the Defense-wide Information Assurance Program, Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Command, Control Communications and Intelligence (ASDC3I) as the
Law Enforcement & Counterintelligence Coordinator and Infrastructure
Protection Liaison. Jim testified before the Arizona State House of
Representatives to advocate the creation of the first State Infrastructure
Protection Center.
SA Christy served as the DoD
Representative to the President’s Infrastructure Protection Task Force (IPTF)
from Sep 1996 – May 1998. The President
signed Executive Order, 13010 on 15 Jul 96, creating IPTF to protect the
Nation’s critical infrastructure from both physical and cyber attacks.
From 1986-1998, Jim was the
Director of Computer Crime Investigations, and Information Warfare for AFOSI
and established the first computer forensics lab in DOD which became the DoD
Computer Forensics Lab at DC3. In 1993,
Jim conducted the first Joint Cyber Crime Training which included over 40
investigators from over 15 agencies which became the DC3’s Defense Cyber
Investigations Training Academy. AFOSI was the first LE agency anywhere in the
world to create a Cyber Crime Unit in 1978.
Some of SA Christy’s notable
firsts in Computer Crime Investigations:
1st civilian computer crime
investigator in the U.S. Government
1st computer espionage investigation
(Hanover Hacker Case), case agent
1st electronic surveillance of a
standalone color PC
1st DoD investigator to go
undercover on pedophile bulletin boards
1st to distribute wanted poster on
the Internet (triple homicide case)
1st to develop forensic technique
to recover data from cutup diskette (homicide investigation)
1st psychological profiling study
of computer criminals program (Project
Son-of-Slammer)
1st to create the Air Force
Computer Forensics Lab
1st to create a DOD Computer
Forensics Lab
1st to create a DOD Computer
Intrusion Squad
1st Joint DoD and government Cyber
training
1st computer crime investigator to
testify before the U.S. Senate
1st information security survey of
private sector by U.S. Senate (authored)
1st to create government, private
sector, academia, program to provide free education and awareness about the
cyber threat to infrastructure owners and operators (Manhattan Cyber Project)
1st State Infrastructure
Protection Center for Arizona
1st Cyber Crime Conference to support
DoD Law Enforcement/Counterintelligence Agencies as well as, the IA & Legal
communities-held annually for 12 years
1st Clearinghouse for Intelligence
Media Exploitation (CHIME) to support digital media exploitation and sharing of
results from media acquired in GWOT
1st Computer Forensics team to
support Special Operations (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
1st Law Enforcement official to be
awarded the AITP Distinguished Information Science Award
1st Digital Forensics Challenge to
create new tools, techniques, and processes to solve ever-changing forensic
challenges and share results with the community
1st Secure web portal for Law
Enforcement to share Digital Forensics Intelligence in partnership with
Oklahoma State Univ.
1st National Center for Digital
Forensics Academic Excellence (CDFAE) a partnership between government and
academia focused on digital forensics standards
1st National High School Digital
Forensics Clubs initiative
About the Watering Hole
The Watering Hole is police slang
for a location cops go off-duty to blow off steam and talk about work and
life. Sometimes funny; sometimes
serious; but, always interesting.
About the Host
Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster was a
sworn member of the Los Angeles Police Department for 24 years. He retired in 2003 at the rank of
Lieutenant. He holds a bachelor’s from
the Union Institute and University in Criminal Justice Management and a
Master’s Degree in Public Financial Management from California State
University, Fullerton; and, has completed his doctoral course work. Raymond E.
Foster has been a part-time lecturer at California State University, Fullerton
and Fresno; and is currently a Criminal Justice Department chair, faculty
advisor and lecturer with the Union Institute and University. He has experience teaching upper division
courses in law enforcement, public policy, law enforcement technology and
leadership. Raymond is an experienced
author who has published numerous articles in a wide range of venues including
magazines such as Government Technology, Mobile Government, Airborne Law
Enforcement Magazine, and Police One. He
has appeared on the History Channel and radio programs in the United States and
Europe as subject matter expert in technological applications in law
enforcement.
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Contact Information
Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster, LAPD
(ret.), MPA
909.599.7530
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