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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 NCOs 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
worlds 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 Presidents 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 Nations 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 DC3s 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 Christys 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
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