Jim Christy

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Jim Christy (born 1951) is the Director of Futures Exploration for the Department of Defense Cyber Crimes Center (DC3), establishing strategic relationships between the US Government and private agencies and academia.

He was the Director of the Cybercrime Institute 2003-2006 (retired), and Director of Operations of the Defense Computer Forensics Lab from 2001-2003.

Mr. Christy was chief of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations's computer crime investigations unit from 1986-1996. As the founder of the world's largest digital forensics shop he is notable for his involvement in high priority government computer security.

Christy joined the Airforce when he was 19 [Robin Mejia, [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/cybercop.html "CSI:TCP/IP"] , "Wired Magazine", January 2007. Accessed January 19, 2007.] . From there he became a computer operator at the Pentagon, and got a job as a computer crime investigator at the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) in 1986.

In 1986 Christy investigated the notorious Hanover Hackers, a band of West German digital delinquents who stole information from United States Defense Department computers and sold it to the KGB. It was his first hacker case as an OSI agent. In 1991, Christy founded the Pentagon's first digital forensics lab for the Air Force. In 1998 the Air Force Lab became the Department of Defense Computer Forensics Lab, supporting all of the investigative agencies of the Department of Defense.

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