John B. Furay 5th is a Senior Special Agent in the United States Secret Service and has been with the United States Secret Service as a Special Agent since 1998.
Academically, he possesses a Bachelor’s degree Summa Cum Laude with honors, Master’s Degree with honors, Juris Doctorate, and a Doctorate in Public Administration with his dissertation and focus of studies addressing Multi-Jurisdictional Task Forcing by Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement Agencies in Response to a Domestic Terrorist Incident.
He is also a graduate of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Leadership in Homeland Security Program.
He has served as a law enforcement lecturer in the fields of cyber and infrastructure security and digital forensics and investigations of cyber related crimes at national law enforcement academies and institutes and command level programs both within the United States and overseas, and is on academic faculties at two universities within the Southern California region.
He is assigned to the United States Secret Service’s Los Angeles Field Office and its Cyber Fraud Task Force and Regional Digital Forensics Lab. There he serves as an Electronic Crimes Special Agent in Digital Forensics, Cyber Crimes, Critical Infrastructure Protection, and Cyber Threat Intelligence. Within the field of critical infrastructure operations, his work pertains to municipal, state, and national infrastructure critical infrastructure and key resources security wherein he works with stakeholders at the national, regional, state, and municipal levels within both the public and private sector domains.
From the United States Secret Service’s Los Angeles Field Office and its Cyber Task Force, he is presently seconded to the Beverly Hills Police Department’s West Side High Tech Crimes Task Force and Digital Forensic Lab which is a cyber-crimes task force with multiple law enforcement partners for all of Los Angeles County.
His responsibilities as a Senior Special Agent within task force operations include protective operations and criminal investigations to include conducting Federal and State criminal investigations, cyber-criminal investigations, critical infrastructure protection and intelligence, cyber and criminal intelligence and analysis, and performing digital forensic investigations pertaining to a host of cyber networked platforms, mobile device and vehicle based platforms, wearable technologies, and local, regional, and national cyber and physical critical infrastructure and key resource (CI/KR) systems.
Throughout his career, he has further served in a host of protective operational and liaison assignments within the United States and overseas as well as having served on multiple criminal investigative task force and investigative assignments both nationally and overseas. He has also served as the operational coordinator for critical infrastructure protection assignments for multiple National Security Special Events (NSSE) as well as Special Events Assessments Ratings (SEAR) events.
