News from 2013
Matt Curtin to present to Ohio Management Lawyers Association
COLUMBUS, OH - Interhack founder Matt Curtin will present to the Ohio Management Lawyers' Association meeting April 19 on cost-effective management of electronic discovery in employment litigation. Curtin will explain preventative measures companies can institute to manage unscheduled events and the preservation of defensible data once it has been determined that litigation is likely. Other discussion areas include data processing and analysis methodologies to assist in case preparation.
OMLA is an Ohio non-profit corporation made up of senior labor and employment attorneys whose practices are dedicated exclusively to representing management. Its stated purpose is "[t]o provide an organization and forum for the exchange of information, discussion of common issues and problems, and promotion of the administration of justice with respect to employment, labor, and other areas of law affecting employers."
About Interhack
Interhack aids executives and attorneys facing challenges and opportunities involving the use of information. We perform security and privacy assessments, as well as services to work with data in legal proceedings. Our work is used to find the right questions to ask and the best answers science can provide. Additional information about Interhack is available at web.interhack.com.
Matt Curtin to speak at Ohio University to student telecommunications group
Columbus, OH- Interhack founder Matt Curtin will be traveling to Ohio University's campus on February 27 to give a presentation to the Telecommunications Systems Management Association (TSMA) on “Cracking the Data Encryption Standard.” The interactive discussion will explore large-scale computing, cryptography, and implications for staying secure in a digital world.
TSMA is a student organization that brings together students, faculty and alumni to develop skills and knowledge in the communication technology and regulation industries.
This is the second time that Mr. Curtin has presented in front of the TSMA.
About Interhack
Interhack aids executives and attorneys facing challenges and opportunities involving the use of information. We perform security and privacy assessments, as well as services to work with data in legal proceedings. Our work is used to find the right questions to ask and the best answers science can provide. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Interhack supports clients all over North America. Additional information about Interhack is available at web.interhack.com.
Mason Evans to lead Ohio State Bar Association Webcast
Columbus, Ohio- Mason Evans, Director of Interhack's Electronic Discovery practice and General Counsel, will be leading a webcast on “Advising Corporate Counsel” May 15 along with Anthony Weis, a partner at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease. The webcast will cover what corporate directors, officers, or attorneys need to know about contemporary topics that are of immediate use in their practice – both for the clients and the law firm.
The webcast is being hosted by the Ohio State Bar Association to give out Continuing Legal Education credits to attendees. The association's core purpose is to advance the professional interests of their members.
About Interhack
Interhack aids executives and attorneys facing challenges and opportunities involving the use of information. We perform security and privacy assessments, as well as services to work with data in legal proceedings. Our work is used to find the right questions to ask and the best answers science can provide. Additional information about Interhack is available at web.interhack.com.
Matt Curtin to speak at the Central Ohio INFOSEC Summit
Columbus, OH—Interhack founder Matt Curtin and Catholic Health Partners CISO Keith Fricke will speak at the sixth annual Central Ohio INFOSEC Summit on May 3. The two will be discussing some of the most effective ways to keep incident response focused on supporting the organization’s needs and being flexible enough to stay relevant as fast-moving situations develop.
Messrs. Fricke and Curtin will walk through the process of developing support within the organization for developing an incident response capability, creating the structure for managing incidents, and conducting drills to ensure that the people, processes, and technology come together when faced with the time to perform. The presentation will include discussion of some of the unique parts of Interhack's Incident Response Program.
About the Central Ohio INFOSEC Summit
The InfoSec Summit is an annual conference is put on by the The Central Ohio ISSA (Information Systems Security Association). It strives to educate regional Information Security professionals and support collaboration by bringing leading speakers in the information security field together to educate the community on the latest industry trends and issues.
About Interhack
Interhack aids executives and attorneys facing challenges and opportunities involving the use of information. We perform security and privacy assessments, as well as services to work with data in legal proceedings. Our work is used to find the right questions to ask and the best answers science can provide. Additional information about Interhack is available at web.interhack.com.
Matt Curtin to present at Financial Aid Administration Conference
Columbus, OH—Interhack founder Matt Curtin will present on fraud in the financial aid industry at the Ohio Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators Spring Conference on May 7. He'll give his perspective as a computer forensic analyst; revealing his analysis of electronic information in different industries.
Mr. Curtin will discuss techniques for data analysis to help attendees develop an understanding of what is possible and how to recognize when further investigation may be warranted. Using his experience working with transactional data in litigation and developing expert opinion in support of fraud analysis, he will show how detection of and response to abnormality fits into the larger picture of fraud detection and loss prevention.
About Ohio Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators
The Ohio Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators' primary focus is on student aid legislation, regulatory analysis, and training for financial aid administrators. For more information, visit www.oasfaa.org.
About Interhack
Interhack aids executives and attorneys facing challenges and opportunities involving the use of information. We perform security and privacy assessments, as well as services to work with data in legal proceedings. Our work is used to find the right questions to ask and the best answers science can provide. Additional information about Interhack is available at web.interhack.com.
Matt Curtin to present to local Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
Columbus, OH—Interhack founder Matt Curtin will be speaking to the Central Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (COACDL) on February 27. The topic of the presentation is based off of Mr. Curtin's publication “Integrity in Digital Evidence: Rendering Judgment on an Electronic Record.” He'll be advising Criminal Defense Lawyers to authenticate their evidence to safeguard against faulty data.
Adversarial analysis of the data can help to lead to a more complete understanding of available information. Do the data tell a story? Can the same data also tell another story? These questions are often more complex than prosecutors, defenders, judges, and juries may realize. An examiner's certainty may not be the same as a reasonable degree of scientific certainty. In the discussion, Mr. Curtin will highlight the kinds of questions that can help to understand the foundations and limits of conclusions offered through computer analysis.
About COACDL
The COACDL is part of a national association that encourages a rational and humane criminal justice policy—one that promotes fairness for all; due process for all accused of wrongdoing; compassion for witnesses and victims of crime; and just punishment for the guilty. For more information visit http://www.nacdl.org/.
About Interhack
Interhack aids executives and attorneys facing challenges and opportunities involving the use of information. We perform security and privacy assessments, as well as services to work with data in legal proceedings. Our work is used to find the right questions to ask and the best answers science can provide. Additional information about Interhack is available at web.interhack.com.
Interhack to appear local news station to show dangers of public WiFi
Columbus, OH—Interhack founder Matt Curtin will appear with Adam Aaro on FOX28 news as a security expert exposing the potential dangers of public WiFi. By a hotspot advertising free wifi, he'll show how attackers can view the users Internet activity to potentially steal usernames, passwords and other sensitive information.
As Curtin explained, “Using an untrusted network means potentially exposing information. The safest option is to connect only to networks that you know and whose operators you can trust. As a rule, end to end encryption like that used by Gmail provides protection from prying eyes. Even then you need to trust the party on the other side."
The demonstration was conducted in a controlled environment to avoid interception of sensitive information. Aaro connected to a system designed to intercept his traffic for the purpose of the story. Users who connected to the "Free WiFi" were not able to connect to the Internet and Curtin did not record any attempt to send session traffic.
To watch the clip or read the article visit: www.myfox28columbus.com/shared/news/features/top-stories/stories/wtte_special-report-free-wifi-dangers-23436.shtml.
About Interhack
Interhack aids executives and attorneys facing challenges and opportunities involving the use of information. We perform security and privacy assessments, as well as services to work with data in legal proceedings. Our work is used to find the right questions to ask and the best answers science can provide. Additional information about Interhack is available at web.interhack.com.
Interhack Framework used for California Attorney General's Data Breach Report
Columbus, OH- On Monday July 1, the Attorney General from California released the 2012 Data Breach Report using Interhack founder C. Matthew Curtin and visiting scientist Lee Ayres' methodology of taxonomizing data loss.
The Breach Report is used to gain an understanding of the types of incidents take place, what vulnerabilities are exposed, and what can be done in the future to halt or diminish the probability of future breaches. The Privacy Enforcement and Protection Unit, who put the report together, used Interhack's framework from Using Science to Combat Data Loss: Analyzing Breaches by Type and Industry to categorize the types fo failures that comprimised Califonians' personal information in the year 2012.
By using Interhack's method, the Attorney General's report clearly and repeatably classifies failures by proximate cause. The study concluded that Logical failures, specifically from outsiders, were the most common failures and addressed it in the first two reccomendations to combat data breaches.
The Interhack Breach Taxonomy classification method was developed in 2007 by Lee Ayres and C. Matthew Curtin. It has been cited in the literature, including articles released by The University of Washington, Nova Southeastern University, and Emerald Group.
“We're delighted to see the taxonomy put to good use,” said Mr. Curtin. “Our objective has been to make a research tool that can be used for open and reliable analysis of data breach reports that will support both accuracy and precision. We believe that the approach produces more consistent results than work done with private datasets using classification methods that cannot be openly replicated.”
About Interhack
Interhack aids executives and attorneys facing challenges and opportunities involving the use of information. We perform security and privacy assessments, as well as services to work with data in legal proceedings. Our work is used to find the right questions to ask and the best answers science can provide. Additional information about Interhack is available at web.interhack.com.
Dave Porter and Mason Evans to present in Business Law Seminar
Columbus, OH- Mason Evans, Director of the EDiscovery practice, and David Porter, Senior Account Manager, will present at a Columbus Bar Association's “Data Privacy, Security & The Cloud” seminar on September 20. This seminar will cover the legal implications of topics such as data mining, using your personal devices at work, cybersecurity, and more. Mr. Evans participated in the Data privacy and security, Data privacy policies, and Data security considerations panels. Mr. Porter participated in the Privacy and security in mobile devices panel and the Data security considerations panel with Mr. Evans.
The Columbus Bar Association promotes education, advocacy and community service in order to advance the justice system for all. For more information visit www.cbalaw.org.
About Interhack
Interhack aids executives and attorneys facing challenges and opportunities involving the use of information. We perform security and privacy assessments, as well as services to work with data in legal proceedings. Our work is used to find the right questions to ask and the best answers science can provide. Additional information about Interhack is available at web.interhack.com/.
Matt Curtin to be the keynote at Computing Sciences Conference
Columbus, OH- Matthew Curtin, founder at Interhack, will be the keynote speaker at the Midwest Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC) conference held at Findley University. His presentation is titled “Putting the Science in Computer Science.” The presentation will talk about how applications of computer science now require proper scientific analysis and we need to be trained to make careful observation, think critically, and to understand their applications.
Attendees of the conference will range from college students, to K-12 teachers, to college professors. This is the first time Mr. Curtin has spoken to his group.
The CCSC is a non-profit organization focused on promoting quality computer-oriented curricula as well as effective use of computing in smaller institutions of higher learning. The conference brings together computer science educators in the Midwestern region to share knowledge through Papers, Panels, Tutorials, and Workshops.
To find out the conference visit http://www.ccsc.org/midwest/conference/index.html.
About Interhack
Interhack aids executives and attorneys facing challenges and opportunities involving the use of information. We perform security and privacy assessments, as well as services to work with data in legal proceedings. Our work is used to find the right questions to ask and the best answers science can provide. Additional information about Interhack is available at web.interhack.com.
Matthew Curtin to speak at (ISC)² workshop
COLUMBUS, OH- Interhack founder Matthew Curtin will present at the Mobile Forensics & Social Networking Intelligence Gathering workshop sponsored by the (ISC)² Central Ohio Chapter SMBA group on October 14.
Mr. Curtin's presentation, entitled Mobile Devices: Evidentiary Gold Mine, or Empty Mine Shaft, will be going over case studies that address collecting data from mobile devices not made available to the analyst. He will also provide a checklist to ensure proper preservation, analysis, and use of mobile device data.
About (ISC)²
(ISC)² is the global, not-for-profit leader in educating and certifying information security professionals throughout their careers. They provide vendor-neutral education products, career services, and Gold Standard credentials to professionals in more than 135 countries to inspire a safe and secure cyber world.
About Interhack
Interhack aids executives and attorneys facing challenges and opportunities involving the use of information. We perform security and privacy assessments, as well as services to work with data in legal proceedings. Our work is used to find the right questions to ask and the best answers science can provide. Additional information about Interhack is available at web.interhack.com.
Matt Curtin to be on Big Data Panel at ILTA conference
Columbus, OH- C. Matthew Curtin, founder at Interhack, will be on the Big Data panel at the Ohio Statewide Litigation Support Meeting for the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) on November 7. The conference has a series of panel discussions geared toward the complex world of eDiscovery for legal technology professionals.
Mr. Curtin will discuss his experience in working with Big Data and his experience as an expert witness involving data analytics in litigation.
About ILTA
ILTA is a peer networking organization that provides educational programs and events to members to maximize the value of technology in support of the legal profession.
About Interhack
Interhack aids executives and attorneys facing challenges and opportunities involving the use of information. We perform security and privacy assessments, as well as services to work with data in legal proceedings. Our work is used to find the right questions to ask and the best answers science can provide. Additional information about Interhack is available at web.interhack.com.