Gary Warner
Director of Threat Intelligence, Dark Tower/University of Alabama Computer Forensics Research Lab
Gary Warner is the Director of Threat Intelligence for DarkTower and the Director of the Computer Forensics Research Lab at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. DarkTower disrupts crime through open source cyber intelligence and investigations for a variety of industries, including financial services, big retail, and online services companies. After spending twenty years in the industry, culminating as an IT Director at Energen Corporation, In 2012, patents licensed from Warner's UAB lab were used to create Malcovery Security which was later acquired by PhishMe, where Warner served for two years as the Chief Threat Scientist. Warner has 35 academic publications related to cybercrime investigations and forensics, including the Journal of Digital Forensics Security and Law, the International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering, and the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics.