John Furay is a Senior Special Agent in the United States Secret Service. He has a Bachelor’s degree, Masters Degree, Juris Doctorate, and a Doctorate in Public Administration. He is also a graduate of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Leadership in Homeland Security Program.
He is assigned to the Secret Service’s Los Angeles Field Office’s Cyber Fraud Task Force and Regional Digital Forensics Lab where he serves as an Electronic Crimes Special Agent in Digital Forensics and Cyber Crimes Special Agent working in the areas of State and Federal cyber crimes investigations, cyber and infrastructure security, and cyber intelligence and security. He has been with the United States Secret Service as a Special Agent since 1998.
From the United States Secret Service’s Los Angeles Field Office and its Cyber Task Force he is 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 law enforcement partners for all of West Los Angeles and Los Angeles County. He has served on multiple task force and investigative assignments both nationally and overseas.
His responsibilities as a Senior Special Agent 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 platforms, mobile, vehicle and wearable technologies, and local and national critical infrastructure systems.
