Mr. Yong Ho KIM is a Research Commissioner of the Digital Forensic Team at D&A LLC. His practice is primarily focused on Internal Investigations, Investigations, Digital Forensics, Industrial Confidentiality Outflow, Trade Secret Protection, and Personal Information Protection.

Mr. Kim began his career at the National Police Agency, and he passed through universities, research institutes, and industries as he handled various cases related to digital forensics. Based on this experience, he is working on cases related to information protection and digital forensics while serving as director of related research organizations.

Bar Admissions

• Level 2 Digital Forensics Expert, Korean Institute of Forensic Sciences/Korea Internet & Security Agency (2014)
• CHFI (Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator), EC-COUNCIL (2009)
• EnCE(Encase Certified Examiner) Guidance Software (2006)
• Information Processing Engineer, Human Resources Development Service of Korea (2005)

Education

• Kyungmin Foreign Language High School (1991)
• Korea National Open University (BS in Computer Science, 2014)
• Kwangwoon University (ME in Information and Communication, 2002)
• Kyonggi University (PhD in Information Technology, 2008)

Significant Accomplishments

• Research Commissioner of the Digital Forensic Team, D&A LLC (2023-Present)
• Deputy Head of AJU Data Science Lab, D&A LLC (2022-2023)
• Head of Digital Forensic Expert Qualification Test Management Headquarters, Korean Institute of Forensic Sciences (2022-Present)
• Member, Review Committee of Police Investigation, Seoul Metropolitan Police (2021-Present)
• Director, Korean Institute of Forensic Sciences (2019-Present)
• Adjunct Professor, Human Resources Development Institute/ IPP Project Team, KwangWoon University (2019-Present)
• Consultant, Foreign Affairs Cooperation of the Foreign Affairs Bureau, Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police (2016-Present)
• Expert Counsel, National Association of Hacking & Security (2014-Present)
• Research/Public Relations Director, KDFS (2012-Present)
• Business Director, Korean Institute of Forensic Sciences (2011-Present)
• Expert Committee Member, Joowon Law (2019-2022)
• Head of the Technology Institute, Inz System (2018-2019)
• Director, Information Protection Consulting Business Department, Btrust (2015-2018)
• Head of Forensic Institute, Korean Institute of Forensic Sciences, Korea (2013-2017)
• Director, Appraisal Forensics Research Institute of the Korea Copyright Commission (2011-2013)
• Head, Kyonggi University Industrial Technology Protection Specialized Center (2009-2011)
• Research Professor, Kyonggi University and head of the K-Forensic Institute (2009-2011)
• Researcher, Cyber Terror Response Center of the Korean National Police Agency and Digital Forensic Center (2002-2007)
• Consultant, Moninae Security Consulting Business Department (2001)

Professional Activities and Experience

• Handled digital forensics on a number of cases related to violation of the Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secret Protection Act
• Handled digital forensics on a number of cases related to hackings and violation of the Personal Information Protection Act
• Handled digital forensics on a number of cases related to violation of fair trade
• Participated in digital forensics on a number of cases related to security

• A Stable Evidence Collection Procedure of a Volatile Data in Research, ICCSA2007 LNCS (2007)
• KMFM realization for real-time P2P messenger IP trace, ICISS2008 IEEE (2008)
• Physical Defect Recovery Methodology of Hard Disk, Convergence Security Journal, Vol.8, No.1 (2008)
• Developed Optimizing File Delete Detection Model, Convergence Security Journal, Vol.8, No.2 (2008)
• Design and Implementation of Web Server Security System using Virtualization, Convergence Security Journal, Vol.8, No.4 (2008)
• An Effective Control Method for Improving Integrity of Mobile Phone Forensics Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology, Vol.9, No.5 (2009)
• A Study on DDoS (Distribute Denial of Service) Attack Detection Model Based on Statistical, Convergence Security Journal, Vol.9, No.4 (2009)
• A Research on Gender Analysis of BGP Security, Convergence Security Journal, Vol.9, No.4 (2009)
• A Forensic Model on Deleted-File Verification for Securing Digital Evidence, ICISA2010 IEEE (2010)
• User Recognition based TV Programs Recommendation System in Smart Devices Environment, The Society of Digital Policy & Management (2013)
• The problem point and improvement program of the scene search and seizure of digital evidence at practical affairs, Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering (2013)
• A study on cyber threat prediction based on intrusion detection event for APT attack detection, Multimedia Tools and Applications [SCI] (2014)
• A Study on the Implementation of the Privacy Impact Assessment Management System for Enterprise, Convergence Security Journal, Vol.15, No.4 (2015)
• Extracting real IP address used to connect to P2P messenger using ARIT agent. Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications [SCI] (2015)
• A node management scheme for stable P2P service in mobile ad-hoc networks, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications [SCI] (2016)
• mVoIP for P2P service based authentication system using AA authentication server. Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications [SCI] (2016)