Chad Tilbury

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About Chad Tilbury

As a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Chad served on the national computer intrusion team and helped expand counter-espionage techniques into the digital age. He has led international forensic teams, built forensic departments, and spent over eight years as an incident response consultant and technical director with Mandiant and CrowdStrike. Today, Chad brings his wealth of experience to his role as a consultant, where he specializes in incident response, corporate espionage, and computer forensics.

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new sights, but in looking with new eyes." - Proust

This favorite quote of Chad Tilbury has proven to be a recurrent theme throughout his career. When Chad attended the U.S. Air Force Academy, his interest was piqued early on by the thrill and challenge of engaging adversaries in new domains. Chad grew up enthralled by spy novels, so defending against real spies with counter-espionage techniques was particularly appealing. A career in computer crime investigations was the perfect fit.

In addition, Chad worked as a computer security engineer and forensic lead for a major defense contractor and served as the vice president of worldwide Internet enforcement for the Motion Picture Association of America. In that role, he managed Internet anti-piracy operations for the seven major Hollywood studios in over 60 countries.

"With so many different skills and cultural perspectives on that team, I learned more about the dark underpinnings of the Internet than I ever could have imagined," says Chad.

In addition to being a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Chad holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science, as well as GCFA, GCIH, GREM, and ENCE certifications.

In his free time, Chad loves to travel and takes full advantage of the unique destinations his career takes him. He spends much of his time at home mountain biking, skiing, snowboarding, and mountaineering. Chad recently took a ski mountaineering trip to Antarctica, about as far away from a Wi-Fi signal as you can get!

Qualifications Summary

Over 20 years of experience working with government agencies, defense contractors, and Fortune 500 companies on a wide variety of cases.

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