Marc D. Goodman

Marc Goodman is the Senior Managing Director of the Digital Security and Investigations Group of Decision Strategies. He has extensive international experience on matters relating to cybercrime and information security.

Mr. Goodman is the former officer-in-charge of the Los Angeles Police Department's Internet Unit, LAPDOnline. A veteran police officer, he has worked in patrol, investigations, internal affairs, high-tech crime and undercover vice operations. During Mr. Goodman's 12 years of service, he received more than 75 citations for bravery, investigative skill, community service, exemplary leadership, and dedication to duty.

Mr. Goodman has worked extensively with Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization, headquartered in Lyon, France. While at Interpol, Mr. Goodman coordinated and managed Interpol's program on Criminal Threats to Electronic Commerce. In that role, he helped Interpol develop its global strategy on e-commerce crime and represented Interpol in Vienna at the United Nations Conference on Crimes Related to the Computer Network. In December 2000, Mr. Goodman was asked by the Interpol Secretariat to serve as the co-chair of Interpol's 4th International Conference on Cybercrime.
Mr. Goodman has also served as a policy advisor to the Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Treasury (Enforcement) on issues related to computer fraud, financial crime, money laundering, gun trafficking and smuggling. While working for the federal government, Mr. Goodman advised the Secretary and Under Secretary of the Treasury on law enforcement matters involving the Secret Service, the Customs Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Division.

Mr. Goodman consults frequently with police forces and governments in Europe, Asia, Oceania and Africa on a variety of topics related to cybercrime and information security. Recently, Mr. Goodman was asked by the U.S. Department of State to train the Royal Oman Police in Muscat in computer crime investigation. In addition, Mr. Goodman was awarded the Medal of Appreciation from the Government of India and their Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in recognition of his assistance to the CBI in combating cybercrime and fraud.

In the United States, Mr. Goodman has provided expert training on cybercrime to special agents of the U.S. government, including those in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, and the Drug Enforcement Agency. He has also instructed experienced investigators on Internet fraud at the FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia.

Mr. Goodman serves as a member of the Secret Service's New York Electronic Crimes Task Force. In addition, he is a founding member of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) International's Cyber Threats Task Force and was recently invited by the United States National Institute of Justice to participate in its Electronic Crime Partnership Initiative.

Mr. Goodman has testified before the California legislature as an expert witness on high-tech crime. In Spring 1999, Mr. Goodman and his colleagues at Stanford University assisted the Director of the U.S. Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO) with his review of America's National Information Systems Protection Plan.

Mr. Goodman served as a Visiting Fellow at both the Hoover Institution and at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. He currently is a faculty member for the University of Dayton's School of Law where he co-teaches an online course on cybercrime. Mr. Goodman has also researched computer crime at the London School of Economics' Computer Security Research Centre.
Mr. Goodman is experienced in media relations, having been interviewed by CNN, the BBC, ABC, NBC, Fox News, the Voice of America, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, NHK Japan and Radio Oman, among others.

Mr. Goodman holds a B.A. in sociology (with honors) from Brandeis University; a Master of Public Administration (with honors), from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government; and an M.Sc. in the Management of Information Systems from the London School of Economics & Political Science. He has also completed coursework at Harvard Law School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. Mr. Goodman is qualified in computer forensics and the investigation of Internet crime by the U.S. National Institute of Justice (SEARCH). Mr. Goodman speaks fluent French and Spanish.

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