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Wayne Murphy
Senior Director, Information Security, Walmart
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Wayne Murphy is a Senior Director, Forensic Analyst, Hardware and Data Recovery Specialist, and general technologist, serving Walmart’s Forensic Services and eDiscovery Laboratory and leading the Research Science and Hardware Intelligence team.
Wayne is a lifelong technologist. He grew up taking things apart and rebuilding them to make something new. Wayne was first exposed to computing before the first home computer was officially on the market and became a contributing member of the family technology business before he was old enough to drive. Wayne’s resume includes professional work across the IT landscape including systems repair, systems architecture, software development, networking, data recovery, component-level hardware repair and analysis, hardware R&D, Information Security, Digital Forensics, and IT leadership.
Currently, Wayne serves as Senior Director responsible for Research Science and Infrastructure and Networking Engineering for Walmart’s Security Operations and Forensic Services Laboratory, where he leads applied research and novel solutions design in the Information Security space, oversees engineering aspects of the secure network segment, and provides technical oversight of forensic science initiatives. Current lab cases include target technologies such as spinning hard‐disk drives, solid‐state drives, flash/eMMC/NAND memory devices, monolithic storage devices, JTAG and In‐System acquisition techniques, chip‐off forensics, bad actor hardware interrogation, and mobile devices, among others.
Wayne holds a Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance from Western Governors University and a Master of Science in Cybersecurity Management from Nova Southeastern University, along with multiple certifications in the security discipline. He has also been asked to speak both internally and externally to a variety of audiences.
Notable certifications include: GIAC Certified Incident Handler | GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst | GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner | GIAC Certified Reverse Engineering Malware | GIAC Certified Advanced Smartphone Forensics | EnCase Certified Examiner | ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional | Network+ | Security+ | PenTest+
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