Heather Mahalik

Heather Mahalik, Senior Director of Digital Intelligence at Cellebrite, has more than 18 years’ experience in digital forensics and has been an expert of choice for law enforcement and intelligence agencies. She has worked high profile cases from child exploitation to Osama Bin Laden’s digital media. Heather likes wine, bourbon, reading, researching, and traveling.

To keep pace with digital devices used in the course of crimes, Argentina’s border guard force uses a combination of technology and teamwork

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Heather Mahalik

October 14, 2020

Protecting Argentina’s 9,300-kilometer border with Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil and Uruguay requires significant attention from the Gendarmería Nacional Argentina (GNA), the country's 70,000-person border guard force located in the capital city of Buenos Aires. The GNA, as well as their border force colleagues in neighboring countries, must also grapple with cross-border crime that take advantage of the close ties among the region’s economies. According to Interpol, illicit markets in these border regions may be worth tens of billions of dollars.

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To keep pace with digital devices used in the course of crimes, Argentina’s border guard force uses a combination of technology and teamwork

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