Warren G. Kruse II, CISSP, CFCE, is the coauthor of Computer Forensics: Incident Response Essentials, published by Addison Wesley. Warren has extensive experience in computer forensic cases involving some of the largest law firms and corporations in the world. He has conducted forensics globally in support of numerous cases. He is a frequent media commentator and lecturer on computer forensics, incident response, and cybercrime. He is a member of numerous government-sponsored initiatives, including co-chair of the National Cybercrime Training Partnership and member of the New York and European Electronic Crimes Task Forces of the U.S. Secret Service.
Warren has extensive experience investigating cases involving the illegal use of computer and networks and received the High Tech Crime Investigation Association's (HTCIA) "Case of the Year" award. He is an IACIS certified forensic computer examiner and a (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
Warren experience includes being Investigations Manager, Cyber Investigations and Forensics, for Lucent Technologies from 1998 to 2003. Warren was a sworn Police Officer in New Jersey from 1987 to 1998.
He has taught computer forensics at the SANS Institute, MIS Institute and currently instructor of the hands-on Computer Forensic Bootcamp at Intenseschool. Warren also teaches Advanced Internet Investigations at SEARCH, and Incident Response at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). He has been interviewed as an expert on several articles that have appeared in InfoWorld, CNN, and others. Warren recently appeared as a "cybercrime expert" on TechTV.