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TRM Talks: Incident Response: Following Crypto Hacks

Oct 31, 2022 - 1h

EPISODE 28

TRM Talks: Incident Response: Following Crypto Hacks

With Jonathon Rajewski,  and Alan Cohn,  and Chris Hoffmeister and

The exponential growth of the Internet of Money has created a broad attack surface for threat actors. The same properties that make crypto a force for good — permissionless, programmable, and instantaneous value transfer — are being hijacked by ransomware groups, scammers, and hackers to attack at unprecedented speed and scale.

In 2022 alone, we have seen nation state hackers steal hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto, and ransomware groups have been targeting hospitals, critical infrastructure and small businesses.This threat calls for a strong response that brings together the public and private sectors to ensure the hardening of cyber defenses and, where this fails, an incident response system to ensure that funds are traced, tracked and recovered.

In this special edition, we will be conducting a tabletop exercise that brings together critical players to depict how to respond to a breach in real time.

About the guests

Jonathon Rajewski
Charles River Associates

Jonathan T. Rajewski advises and provides expert witness testimony to clients on civil and criminal litigation relating to digital forensics and cyber incident response investigations.

Jonathan has been helping clients navigate and find resolutions for some of the world’s most impactful cybercrime threats for 20 years. Mr. Rajewski has experience with both civil and criminal digital forensic investigations and provides expert witness digital forensic testimony (written and oral). Jonathan’s technical expertise and passion for helping others complements his ability to investigate, empower, and advise organizations on how to properly approach the ever-growing cyber threats on the Internet.

Jonathan is a sought-out expert to help clients, prepare for and respond to, regulatory and class-action lawsuits resulting from cyber data breaches.

Prior to joining CRA, Jonathan was the digital forensic and incident response practice leader at a leading consulting firm. Before that, Jonathan was the Founder & Director of the Senator Patrick Leahy Center for Digital Investigation at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, where he was program director and lead professor for the computer forensic program. He was also a member of the Vermont Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and served as a member of the Vermont Governor’s Cyber Security Advisory Team.

He was the Founding Chair of the Board of Directors for BTV Ignite, an independent nonprofit focused on the creation of next generation gigabit infrastructure. Jonathan was also an advisor to Minim, an AI-driven Wi-Fi management and IoT security platform. He holds a patent – System and method for device context and device security (US Patent number 11616793).

Jonathan presented on the TEDx stage in Buffalo, New York, and awarded the 4 under 40 award from his undergraduate alma mater, Hilbert College (Hamburg, New York). He also received the C. Bader Alumni Leadership Award from his graduate alma mater, Champlain College. He was named the Digital Forensic Examiner of the year by Forensic4Cast and given the Director’s Community Leadership Award from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Alan Cohn
Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Alan Cohn counsels clients on a range of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and digital asset-related issues, from regulatory best practices for cryptocurrency companies to legal issues associated with novel uses of blockchain technology. Alan leads Steptoe's Financial Innovation and Regulation practice and co-leads Steptoe's Blockchain & Cryptocurrency practice, which he co-founded in 2016. Prior to joining Steptoe, Alan served as an assistant secretary at the US Department of Homeland Security.

Alan represents a variety of different types of entities focusing on blockchain, cryptocurrency, and digital assets, including cryptocurrency trading platforms, investment funds, and startups developing new blockchain protocols. He also advises financial institutions interested in exploring potential applications of digital asset and blockchain technology. Additionally, Alan serves as counsel to the Blockchain Alliance, a public-private forum established by a broad coalition of companies and organizations to help combat criminal activity on the blockchain. Alan is ranked among the top US lawyers in Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies by Chambers USA (2019-2025), where he is noted for his "tremendous depth of expertise in regulatory issues facing blockchain platforms and cryptocurrencies." He is also recognized as an MVP in FinTech by Law360 (2019), a trailblazer in both Cryptocurrency, Blockchain & FinTech (2018) and Cybersecurity (2017) by National Law Journal and as a Next Generation Lawyer in Cyber Law by The Legal 500 (2017-2019). Alan brings a unique perspective, focusing on the intersection of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology with cybersecurity and national security.

Before joining Steptoe, Alan served as a career official in senior policy positions at the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for almost a decade, during both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. Most recently, he served as the Assistant Secretary for Strategy, Planning, Analysis & Risk and second-in-charge overall of the DHS Office of Policy during the second term of the Obama Administration. Among a variety of responsibilities, Alan established the cyber policy office within the DHS Office of Policy, represented DHS on the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) and related national security review processes for foreign investments, and architected and helped implement DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson's Unity of Effort Initiative, a major corporate-level DHS management reform effort. Alan also participated in and helped run a variety of scenario planning and tabletop exercise activities at DHS.

Chris Hoffmeister
TRM Labs

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