Summary
Hal Pomeranz is a principal consultant and digital forensics authority with over two decades of hands-on experience delivering incident response, expert witness testimony, and pragmatic IT security solutions for government and commercial clients. A Senior SANS Faculty Fellow, he created and taught the GCUX Linux/Unix security certification and instructs advanced forensic and malware reverse-engineering curricula, bringing rare depth across Unix, Windows, and macOS investigations. He has supported high-profile engagements (including multiple FTC matters), partnered with Mandiant and CrowdStrike as surge staff, and builds tooling and techniques used in complex cases. Equally comfortable in the courtroom and the command line, he combines rigorous academic training in mathematics with a playful sense of humor and a track record of shaping industry best practices through standards work and long-standing community leadership.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics, minor in Computer Science, BA, Mathematics, minor in Computer Science at Swarthmore College