Hal Pomeranz

Independent Digital Forensic Analyst & Expert Witness, SANS Institute Faculty Fellow

Pomeranz is an independent digital forensic investigator and incident responder. He has consulted on cases ranging from intellectual property theft, to employee sabotage, to organized cybercrime and malicious software infrastructures. He has worked with law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe and global corporations. Pomeranz s a respected author and speaker at industry gatherings worldwide. He is a Faculty Fellow of the SANS Institute and teaches courses on System and Network Forensics, Incident Response, and Reverse Engineering Malware to some of the brightest minds in industry, government, and academia. He is a regular contributor to the SANS Computer Forensics blog and co-author of the Command Line Kung Fu blog.

Malware is Dead?

Presented by Hal Pomeranz • April 12, 2016

Advanced attackers always use advanced malware, right? Zero-day exploits, targeted malware, powerful modular frameworks- these are the stock and trade of your adversary. So we've tuned our detection and hunting capability to ferret out the indicators left behind by this malware. Advances in memory forensics,...

Data Breach Outlook: Tracking the Next, Seemingly Inevitable Attack

Presented by Tom Field , Hal Pomeranz , David Pommerehn , Michael Scheidell • April 12, 2016

It's a boom time for cybercrime and cyber-espionage, aided by at least two factors. First, many organizations' websites and databases sport well-known technical weaknesses, while employees remain all to susceptible to low-cost social-engineering attacks. Second, attackers can pummel these technical and human targets...