Press Release  AG Campbell Hosts Fourteenth Annual National Cyber Crime Conference

BOSTON — This week, Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell hosted the fourteenth annual National Cyber Crime Conference, the largest conference of its kind in the country. The conference is aimed at helping equip law enforcement and prosecutors with the tools and skills to effectively detect and combat cyber crime. 

During her opening remarks to kick off the conference on Tuesday, AG Campbell spoke about the importance of staying up-to-date on the tools and skills required to tackle cyber crime, especially as phishing attacks, data breaches, crypto schemes, and other online crimes become more commonplace.  

“For 14 years, this conference has served as an incredible opportunity for law enforcement officials, prosecutors, investigators, and other forensic personnel to share the latest techniques for fighting cyber crime in an ever-changing digital landscape,” said AG Campbell. “I’m proud of my office’s continued leadership in this space as we continue to work to protect consumers and inform people about how to stay safe online.”  

Keechant Sewell, the 45th Police Commissioner of New York City and current Senior Vice President of Security and Guest Experience for the New York Mets, delivered the conference’s keynote address. For over two decades Sewell served on the Nassau County police force starting as a patrol officer and working her way up to becoming the department’s Chief of Detectives, before leaving to lead the nation's largest municipal police force as New York City’s Police Commissioner, becoming the first woman to hold the role. In her speech, Sewell discussed the technological problems faced by law enforcement in contemporary investigations.

The conference also featured more than 140 notable speakers and presenters, and consisted of 222 sessions that included labs, lectures, presentations and certification programs. Attendees were trained on a wide range of topics including understanding the impact of artificial intelligence in criminal enterprises and tracing and recovering cryptocurrency when it’s used to facilitate criminal activity.

The conference was hosted by the AG’s Office in partnership with SEARCH, the National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, the National Association of Attorneys General, the National Criminal Justice Training Center, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and the National Domestic Communications Assistance Center.  

The conference’s sponsors and exhibitors were Cellebrite, Magnet Forensics, MSAB, and Amped Software, Hexordia, ADF Solutions, MOS Equipment / Mission Darkness, SUMURI, Forensic Analytics LTD, Atola, SWGDE, Detego Global, Faulkner University, Berla, HTCIA, Teel Technologies, LexisNexis, Chainalysis, Arsenal Consulting, Kodex, Project VIC, TRM Labs, Wave GP, Quantum, ScanWriter, and the University of New Haven.

Attendees at this week’s event represented 42 states, as well as eight countries. Law enforcement, prosecutors, and investigators from federal, state, and local agencies across the country attend training taught by 145 of the world’s top experts in cyber crime.    

The AG’s Office has long made the prevention and prosecution of cyber crime a top priority and has a state-of-the-art Digital Evidence Lab in Boston, which has statewide capacity to deal with cyber crime and more efficiently process the digital evidence that is used in essentially every investigation in the AG’s Office. Since 2008, the AG’s Office has provided cyber training for more than 20,000 state and local law enforcement personnel from across the state and the nation. 

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