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Andrew Rathbun

Vice President

Andrew Rathbun is a vice president in the Cyber Risk practice, based in Secaucus. Andrew leverages more than seven years of digital forensics and incident response experience in assisting with cyber investigations. He is an incident response practitioner with a broad set of expertise and skills across numerous digital forensic disciplines, one of which is ransomware and related intrusion matters. He is also a Kroll Artifact Parser and Extractor (KAPE) instructor.

Prior to joining Kroll, Andrew was a forensic computer examiner for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Before that, he was a detective who conducted general criminal investigations as well as a digital forensics examiner who handled digital forensics cases at the Michigan State University Police Department.

Andrew is also Virtual Teaching Assistant for the SANS Institute. Additionally, Andrew contributes to AboutDFIR , and he is Administrator of the Digital Forensics Discord Server, which is a three-time winner of the DFIR Resource of the Year award presented by the Forensic 4:cast Awards.

He also contributes to multiple projects on GitHub, and he has co-authored two books: “Hitchhikers Guide to DFIR” and “EZ Tools Manuals.”

Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and sociology from Western Michigan University . He also holds a Master’s in Human Resources Administration from Central Michigan. Additionally, he holds the following certifications: GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE), GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA), GIAC Advanced Smartphone Forensics (GASF) and GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH). Andrew is also a member of the SANS DFIR Summit Advisory Board and the GIAC Advisory Board.


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