Christopher Painter
Christopher Painter currently serves as a Director of Cybersecurity at the National Security Council and was part of the team that wrote the President’s 60-Day Cyberspace Review. Mr. Painter has been a leader in cybercrime and cybersecurity issues since 1991. From 1991-200 he was a Federal Prosecutor in Los Angeles specializing in high tech crime prosecutions and was responsible for the investigation and prosecution of some of the most high profile computer crime cases in the country – including the prosecution of notorious computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, the prosecution of the first Internet securities fraud cases, and the prosecution of the “mafiaboy” distributed denial of service case that involved attacks on Yahoo!, Ebay, CNN and e-commerce sites. From 2000-2008 he helped lead the Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. In that role, he supervised the Department’s national case, legislative, international engagement and policy efforts. He has chaired the cutting edge G8 High Tech Crime Group for nearly eight years and, in that role, expanded the G8 24/7 High Tech Crime Point of Contact Network to over 50 countries and chaired a high level meeting on Critical Information Infrastructure Protection that resulted in a set of foundational CIIP Principles that were later adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. He also served as the co-chair of the National Cyber Response Coordination Group and a founding member of the National Cyber Study Group. Mr. Painter has made numerous presentations to government and private sector groups throughout the world, has testified before Congress and has appeared on 60 Minutes, CNN, ABC, the BBC and other media.
