Meet Darren

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Dr. Darren Hayes, is the Founder and Director of the Pace University Digital Forensics Research Lab. He is also an Associate Professor at Pace in New York. Hayes has been listed as one of the Top 10 Computer Forensics Professors, by Forensics Colleges. He has served as a visiting professor at Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, University College Dublin, and New York University. 

Hayes is an accomplished author with numerous peer-reviewed publications on digital forensics, threat intelligence, and cybersecurity. In late 2020, he published the second edition of “A Practical Guide to Digital Forensics Investigations” and his fifth book in 2022, “CISSP Certification Guide”. He has served as a subject matter expert for both criminal and civil investigations and has been declared an expert witness in federal court. He has also conducted OSINT training for law enforcement agencies both domestically and internationally.