Berkeley Research Group announced the addition of five of the world’s foremost cyber security experts. Thomas Brown, who leads the group, has been named as BRG’s Global Leader of Cyber Security/Investigations, while Matthew Edman, Ph.D. and Christopher Tarbell will be directors. Ilhwan Yum and Thomas Kiernan join as associate directors.
Brown, a former federal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, teamed with Tarbell, Edman, Yum and Kiernan—then with the FBI—on some of the most significant cyber investigations of the Internet era. The group spearheaded the investigation, arrest and prosecution of the operators of Silk Road, a notorious $1.2 billion underground drug website. They also investigated and prosecuted the leadership of the prolific “hacktivist” groups Anonymous and LulzSec. A movie based on the Silk Road case is currently in production by 21st Century Fox.