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Biography
Dr. Peter Stephenson is an internationally recognized writer, consultant,
researcher and lecturer on theoretical and experimental information
assurance. He has lectured extensively on digital investigation and
security, and has written or contributed to 14 book and several hundred
articles in major national and international trade, technical and scientific publications. He has lectured or delivered consulting engagements for the past 20 years in eleven countries plus the United States and has been a technologist for over forty years.
Dr. Stephenson obtained his PhD in computing at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England where his research was in the structured investigation of digital incidents in complex computing environments. It was during his five years of university research that he discovered the fundamental concepts that underlie his current work in theoretical information assurance. He spent a year in post-doctoral study with Dr. Paul Pruett, an eminent researcher in knowledge science and ontology.
He is on the editorial advisory boards of "Computer Fraud and Security",
"Information Systems Security", "International Journal of Digital
Evidence", "SC Magazine" and the "Norwich University Journal of Information Assurance", and is the co-chair of the certification committee of the Digital Forensics Certification Board. He is editor-in-chief of the
"Journal of Digital Forensic Practice", published by Taylor and Francis.
Dr. Stephenson is a Fellow of the Institute for Communications, Arbitration
and Forensics in the UK, and is a regular member of the International
Federation of Information Processing Technical Committee TC 11, Working Group WG 11.9, Digital Forensics. He serves on the steering Committee of the Michigan Electronic Crime Task Force, and is the co-chair or the certification committee of the Digital Forensics Certification Board.
Dr. Stephenson is an adjunct professor and associate program director in
the Master of Science in Information Assurance program at Norwich
University, an NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance, and is a researcher at the National Center for the Study of Counter-Terrorism and Cyber Crime at Norwich. He is an adjunct professor in cyber crime at Eastern Michigan University.
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