Christopher Painter
Principal Deputy Chief of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section
Christopher Painter is the Principal Deputy Chief of the U.S. Department of Justice's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. Mr. Painter supervises the Section's case and policy efforts relating to Cybercrime, Intellectual Property Theft, and Critical Information Infrastructure Protection involving criminal intrusions and attacks on computer networks. Mr. Painter also serves as the Chair of the G8 High Tech Crime Subgroup and Co-Chair of the National Cyber Response Coordination Group.
From 1991-2000, Mr. Painter was a Federal Prosecutor in Los Angeles where he handled some of the most important computer crime matters in the United States including the prosecution of notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick, prosecution of the first two Internet stock manipulation cases, and investigation of the widespread February 2000 Distributed Denial of Service attack cases that led back to a Canadian teenager. Mr. Painter has lectured extensively around the world and testified on computer crime matters. He graduated from Stanford Law School in 1984 and clerked for the Honorable Betty Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Appearances
- State of the Net Conference 2007 January 31, 2007
- International Dialogue 2006 July 17, 2006
Biography last updated June 2006