Ondrej Krehel is the founder and chief executive of LIFARS LLC, an international cyber security and digital forensics firm. He’s the former Chief Information Security Officer of Identity Theft 911, the nation’s premier identity theft recovery and data breach management service. He previously conducted forensics investigations and managed the cyber security department at Stroz Friedberg and the Loews Corporation.
With two decades of experience in computer security and digital forensics, he has launched investigations into a broad range of IT security matters—from hacker attacks to data breaches to intellectual property theft. Matters also included corporate espionage, financial fraud and mathematical modeling.
He holds an M.S. degree in Mathematical Physics from Comenius University in Bratislava and an Engineering Diploma from Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia. He is one of the few that hold Certified Ethical Hacker Instructor (CEI) accreditation, and being authorized to lecture Ethical Hacking course to government and private sector.
An international conference speaker and educator, he’s presented at RSA, among other notable security summits, and is an adjunct professor at St. John ’s University. His work has been featured by CNN, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.