As Chief Technology Officer of Gray Hat Research, Mr. Williams possesses extensive experience developing effective security solutions and conducting security risk assessments for large commercial and government customers, including for the United States intelligence community. He is an expert in rapidly solving complex cyber crime investigations through a variety of innovative and proprietary techniques.

Mr. Williams is an active public speaker who attracts large audiences and often draws coverage from radio, television and print media. He conducts scores of high profile cyber-security speaking engagements every year. Mr. Williams consistently speaks at seminars and conferences conducted by prestigious national organizations like the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Secret Service, U.S. Department of Justice, FBI InfraGard, ACP, ASIS, IIA, ISACA, ISSA, as well as at universities and colleges across the nation. He has also spoken internationally from an information technology standpoint at a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) conference on national security in Zurich, Switzerland.

Mr. Williams is certified by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA IAM and IEM) and is a nationally recognized authority on the white hat side of network security. 

As a result of Mr. Williams' special skills in the field of computer security, he has collected a wide assortment of hacking tools, worms, Trojan Horses, and computer viruses for advanced research purposes.  In 1994, his personal collection of 22,000 computer viruses and 800 Trojan Horse programs was among the largest anywhere in the world.  He maintains his collection for advanced research purposes to this day.

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