Digital Forensics Expert and USC Professor

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Dr. Joseph Greenfield is the Vice President and Chief Forensic Examiner at Maryman & Associates and an award-winning educator. He is a renowned computer forensics expert with over 15 years of investigative experience, including cyber breach investigations, employee misconduct, and email recovery and analysis. He has worked over 1000 cases and analyzed over 2000 pieces of digital evidence. His is known for deep forensic analysis while being able to explain technical details to non-technical decision-makers. He has provided expert witness testimony in state, federal, and international legal matters. Dr. Greenfield is also an Associate Professor of Information Technology Practice at the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California, where he authored the undergraduate programs in both cybersecurity and digital forensics. In 2014, the Ponemon Institute ranked USC as 6th in the nation for “Best Schools for Cybersecurity” and the highest ranked on the West Coast. He also co-created an interdisciplinary bachelor's degree in Intelligence and Cyber Operations, now a part of the USC Political Science and International Relations Department in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. He has taught thousands of students who have progressed to careers at some of the largest consulting companies in the world. Dr. Greenfield engages in practical research in digital forensics. In 2009, he presented some of his research of peer to peer networks, specifically BitTorrent, to the Los Angeles Electronic Crimes Task Force (LAECTF) and the Los Angeles Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). He pioneered new techniques for associating downloaded content to the metadata files (.torrent files) with extreme accuracy. In 2012 and 2013, he presented a series of lectures to the LAECTF on Solid State Drives (SSDs), articulating the problems of flash memory for forensics and outlining how operating systems change their behavior when deployed on SSDs. Dr. Greenfield holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering & Computer Science and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. He completed his Ph. D. in Computer Science at the University of Rhode Island, where his research focused on parallel processing of all live files while creating a forensic bitstream image.