In memoriam
William R. Spernow
Chief Forensic Officer, Law & Forensics
Bill Spernow served as Chief Forensic Officer of Law & Forensics. He came to the firm after leading information security, investigations, and incident response at Experian, the world's largest consumer reporting agency, and before that worked as an eDiscovery and forensic litigation expert with LECG's Digital Evidence Solutions Group. He was previously Chief Information Security Officer for the Georgia Student Finance Commission, and advised Fortune 500 companies throughout his career. He was based in Atlanta.
His expertise ran from the strategic to the deeply hands-on — intrusion detection, content monitoring, HIPAA and GLBA compliance, authentication and biometrics, cyber investigations, forensic analysis, and incident response. He was a Master Instructor for the California Department of Justice, and taught for much of his career.
Work with the firm
- Co-author, with Daniel B. Garrie, of Law Firm Cybersecurity (American Bar Association, 2017).
- Named co-inventor, with Daniel B. Garrie, on five granted U.S. patents for a method of scanning a forensic image with multiple malicious-code detection engines simultaneously from a single control point: 11,354,414, 10,546,129, 10,528,738, 9,990,498 and 9,990,497.
Credentials
- M.B.A., California State University
- Master Instructor, California Department of Justice
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- Digital Forensics Certified Practitioner (DFCP)
- AccessData Certified Examiner (ACE)
- Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
- Certified Homeland Security Specialist, Level III (CHS III)