Christopher Painter, Deputy Chief of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, Department of Justice to Speak at GKC s Cybersecurity Event

10 December 2006

The Global Knowledge Congress, the leading producer of regulatory focused teleconferences has announced today that Christopher M.E. Painter, Deputy Chief of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section at the Department of Justice will speak at the Global Knowledge Congress’s upcoming teleconference entitled: “Cybersecurity: How To Combat Hackers.” This event is scheduled for the 2nd week of January 2007 at 10:00 AM (EST). (For further details and updated panelists of the event, please visit: www.knowledgecongress.org)

As we become more interconnected, network security attacks are at an all time high with new and innovative security threats being developed and executed. Increasingly, the burden of protecting companies from such attacks is falling on the Technology head. The Global Knowledge Congress has assembled a team of experts to help analyze these changes and their impact on the companies servicing this industry. These experts will present their findings, which includes a "best practice" panel, at a comprehensive two-hour teleconference scheduled for January 2007.

About Christopher M.E. Painter

Christopher M.E. Painter is a Deputy Chief of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section at the Department of Justice. In that position he supervises the Section's case and policy efforts concerning computer network intrusions, critical infrastructure protection, and other issues. From 1991 to March 2000, Mr. Painter was a criminal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California (Los Angeles). During his tenure in Los Angeles, Mr. Painter specialized in the investigation and prosecution of high-tech, intellectual property and computer crimes and served as a Computer Crime and Internet Fraud Coordinator for his office.

Mr. Painter has investigated and prosecuted some of the most significant and high profile high-tech cases in the country, including the prosecution of notorious computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, the investigation of the February 2000 distributed denial of service attacks, the prosecution of the first Internet stock manipulation case-involving the posting of a bogus Bloomberg News page falsely reporting the sale of a company called PairGain that caused its stock to soar, the prosecution of former and present UCLA students who hyped stocks on Yahoo! and Raging Bull by posting false spam messages from public computers at UCLA, the prosecution of significant software piracy cases and the prosecution of one of the first Internet auction fraud cases. Mr. Painter serves on several Department of Justice and interagency working groups relating to computer hackers, Internet fraud investigations and prosecutions, electronic evidence, intellectual property crimes, and thefts of trade secrets. He is also co-chair of an ABA White Collar Crime Subcommittee on Computer Crime and Chair of the G8 High-Tech Crime Subgroup. In addition, he has lectured extensively and has appeared on 60 Minutes, CNN, CBS Morning News, the BBC and has testified before Congress concerning computer crime issues.

Mr. Painter attended Cornell University, graduating with a B.A. in 1980, and Stanford Law School, receiving a J.D. in 1984. Mr. Painter was a Senior Editor of the Stanford Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif. He subsequently clerked for the Honorable Betty Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before practicing law at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Arnold and Porter.

About the Department of Justice Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS)

The Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) is responsible for implementing the Department's national strategies in combating computer and intellectual property crimes worldwide. The Computer Crime Initiative is a comprehensive program designed to combat electronic penetrations, data thefts, and cyber attacks on critical information systems. CCIPS prevents, investigates, and prosecutes computer crimes by working with other government agencies, the private sector, academic institutions, and foreign counterparts. Section attorneys work to improve the domestic and international infrastructure-legal, technological, and operational-to pursue network criminals most effectively. The Section's enforcement responsibilities against intellectual property crimes are similarly multi-faceted. Intellectual Property (IP) has become one of the principal U.S. economic engines, and the nation is a target of choice for thieves of material protected by copyright, trademark, or trade-secret designation. In pursuing all these goals, CCIPS attorneys regularly run complex investigations, resolve unique legal and investigative issues raised by emerging computer and telecommunications technologies; litigate cases; provide litigation support to other prosecutors; train federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel; comment on and propose legislation; and initiate and participate in international efforts to combat computer and intellectual property crime

For more information about Christopher M. E. Painter and CCIPS, please visit: http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/index.html

About The Global Knowledge Congress

The Global Knowledge Congress is an organization that produces teleconferences that examine regulatory changes across a variety of industries. “We bring together the world's leading authorities and industry participants through informative two-hour teleconferences to study the impact of changing regulations.” To contact or to register to an event, please visit: www.knowledgecongress.org

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