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Education
- Columbia University, New York City,
NY Master of Business Administration
- Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
M.S. Computer Science.
- Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ B.A.
Computer Science.
Patents
- A Method and Apparatus for Identifying
Hosts Breeching the Firewall Perimeter, (S. Branigan, H. Burch, B.
Cheswick), 7,299,489.
- A Method and Apparatus for Securing
Wireless Data Networks, (S. Branigan, B. Cheswick), patent pending.
- A Method and Apparatus for Electronic
Data Reproduction (S. Branigan), 8,176,274
Publications
- “Characteristics of Forensic Imaging
Performance—An Analysis of Forensic Imaging Bottlenecks, Journal of
Forensic Sciences, Mar 4, 2013 (DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.12083)
- “Trends in disk drives and data
transfer speed.” S. Branigan, Information Security Bulletin, May, 2007
- "High-Tech Crimes Revealed",
S. Branigan, Addison Wesley, Copyright (c) 2005.
- "Securing the Critical IP
Infrastructure", S. Branigan, Information Security Technical
Report, Volume 7, Issue 2, 1 June 2002
- "What Can You Do with
Traceroute", S. Branigan, H. Burch, B. Cheswick and F. Wojcik,
Internet Computing online, 2001
- "Mapping and Visualizing the
Internet", S. Branigan, H. Burch, B. Cheswick. Usenix Security
Symposium, 2000
Presentations
- “Online banking Malware”, Presented at
the NY/NJ Electronic Crimes Task Force meeting, June, 2010.
- “Tracking a stolen iPhone via WiFi”,
Presented at the HTCIA regional meeting, May, 2010
- "The Internet as a Backbone of
the New Digital Economy", Testimony before the Joint Economic
Committee (Chaired by Jim Saxton) as part of the Wired World: Cyber
Security and the U.S Economy Hearing for the 107th Congress.
- "Understanding
Steganography", Presented at the New Jersey State Police Cyber
Terrorism Awareness Day, May 2, 2003
- "An Update on Quantum
Computing", Presented to NATO's Allied Command Europe Counter
Intelligence ACI/CI network security, May, 2001
- "Yugoslavia: An Unclassified Peak at a New Battlefield", Presented to NATO's Allied Command Europe Counter
Intelligence ACI/CI network security, May, 2001
Honors, Awards, Societies
- Past President of the High Tech Crime
Investigation Association, Northeast Chapter.
- Awarded HTCIA NorthEast Chapter Member
of the Year, 2012.
- Member of the NJ License Private
Investigator’s Association
- Member of the Digital Forensic
Certification Board.
- Member of the FBI Infragard Program.
- Certificate of Appreciation, United
States Secret Service, 2002
- Certificate of Appreciation, New Jersey State Police, 2002
Experience
2004-present
CyanLine, LLC - Eatontown, NJ
President
- Handled multiple file recovery and
file un-deletion cases where data was assumed to be lost on disk.
- Performed forensic acquisition on
multiple computer hard drives to support both file recovery and computer
usage analysis.
- Prepare and submitted reports to the
Federal and State court on findings from computer analysis.
- Developed and taught courses at
Brookdale College, (NETW-236) on detecting alterations on file
timestamps, and on the process of file deletion in the Windows and Linux
operating system.
- Developed improved computer forensic
techniques.
- Developed and deployed new techniques
for tracking hackers.
- Devised new method for securing
wireless networks (patent-pending)
2007-2009
Monmouth
University - Long Branch, NJ
Professor
- Developed and taught a new graduate
level Software Security Course, (698-C50)
- Taught graduate level Data Security
course (610)
2000-2004
Lumeta Corporation Somerset, NJ
Vice President of Engineering
- Secured $13 Million in VC funding for
the company over 3 years.
- Managed a budget of $5Million.
- Led the team of engineers that build
and deliver Lumeta's IPsonar product.
- Direct research on TCP/IP networks as
it relates to Internet and intranet traffic.
- Devised new methods for detecting
network devices that are attempting to hide computers on a network.
1999-2000
Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
Senior Manager
- Assisted corporate business units and
the CIO in implementing Virtual Private Network technology, to securely
improve remote access and reduce cost for the business.
- Researched Internet networking
security issues with Bill Cheswick. Devised and patented a method for
detecting hosts that are breeching the corporate network security
perimeter.
- Researched wireless data communication
issues. Devised and patented a method for securing wireless data
networks that enables user level authorization while preserving the
ability of clients to roam among many different base stations.
1996-1999
Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ
Senior Manager
- Brought Intrusion Detection technology
into the corporation to improve detection of hacker activity on the
corporate network.
- Improved the technology and techniques
that the computer investigation teams used, reducing the potential
liability incurred by lack of procedures.
- Led team for Integrated E-Commerce
Security for the corporation that reported to the General Auditor.
- Led the security efforts to implement
Virtual Private Network technology for remote access into the
corporation, and ran the first corporate VPN trial for the company.
- Worked with business units to develop
methods to securely distribute sensitive sales data to a world wide
sales force.
1990-1996
Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ
Senior Systems Engineer
- Led intrusion investigations on behalf
of the RBOCs. Pioneered techniques in high-tech investigations.
- Led teams on providing network
security consulting services to the RBOCs and financial clients.
- Led a team of engineers on the
redesign and implementation of the security subsystem for the Service
Control Point (a switch in the SS7 network.)
- Led a team of engineers on the
redesign of the toll-free and calling cards database used in processing
telephone calls in the US and Canada to allow the RBOCs to comply with
FCC mandates.
1988-1990 Metpath,Inc.,
Teterboro, NJ
System Manager
1987-1988 K.Hovnanian,
Red Bank, NJ
Programmer/Analyst
1986-1987
Seaside Heights Police Dept., Seaside, NJ
Patrolman
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