David Cowen
Vice President at SANS Institute
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Cowen is a veteran digital forensics and incident response leader with nearly 30 years of experience delivering expert witness services and managing complex global investigations for Fortune 100 clients and high-stakes litigation. As Vice President at Charles River Associates and former Managing Director at KPMG, he has led breakthrough work on software supply chain compromises, industrial espionage, and cloud-scale forensic automation that have produced settlements, criminal convictions, and new industry-standard methods. He is a prolific practitioner and educator—author of five books, seven award-winning forensic contributions, lead author and instructor for SANS FOR509, and a sought-after keynote speaker. Notably, he developed patented forensic techniques and an automated triage system that enabled Toyota to examine thousands of systems at once, demonstrating a rare blend of courtroom testimony, technical innovation, and scalable operational impact. Based in Dallas, he combines deep technical rigor with clear communication that helps executives make defensible decisions under extreme pressure.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
parser10
fsevents10
ios8
swift8
python6
incident-response5
wmi2
usb2
windows1
elasticsearch1
elastic1
indexing1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dlcowen/dfirwizard
Feb 2015 - Nov 2016
Example programs used in the automating DFIR series
Contributions:43 pushes, 4 comments in 1 year 9 months
pythonprogramsdfir
dlcowen/TestKitchen
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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