Tom Brown is a managing director and global leader of BRG’s Cyber Security & Investigations practice.
He specializes in helping clients manage cyber risk, respond to and investigate cyber incidents, remediate vulnerabilities, and address—from a technical perspective—post-incident regulatory inquiries and litigation.
Before joining BRG, Mr. Brown served for twelve years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he supervised the Complex Frauds and Cyber Crime Unit. During his tenure, he led an extraordinarily broad range of complex, cross-border cyber investigations, including some of the most technologically challenging cases ever pursued by the US government. They included Silk Road, a $1.2 billion underground drug website; the prolific “hacktivist” groups Anonymous and LulzSec; the hack of NASDAQ; Liberty Reserve, an online digital currency used to launder more than $6 billion in criminal proceeds; the hack of Citibank; Rove Digital, a massive botnet that infected more than four million computers; and Samarth Agrawal, who was convicted after trial of stealing high-frequency trading code from Société Générale. Mr. Brown has particular experience with the virtual currencies WebMoney and Bitcoin, as well as cyber national-security matters.
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Education
University of Minnesota Law School
JD
Carleton College
BA, History