<strong>Ken Privette, USPS IG</strong> <br />

Special Agent in Charge<br /> Digital Evidence Services<br /> USPS Office of Inspector General<br /><br />

Ken serves as the Special Agent in Charge of Digital Evidence Services (DES), a component of the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General providing computer crime and digital forensics support to investigators from the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General and Postal Inspection Service. He and his team of digital forensic examiners have pioneered state-of-the- art initiatives such as remote forensics and the development of forensic tools such as eInvestigator – an online forensic collaboration tool for sharing, parsing and searching digital evidence.<br /><br />

Ken spent much of his professional life as a Special Agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service both overseas and state-side where he conducted investigations involving computer crime, terrorism, and counterintelligence matters. He has worked in assignments at the Department of Defense Computer Emergency Response Team and served as an instructor in the Computer Forensics, Investigation and Response course for the SANS Institute.