Scott K. Larson is a Managing Director in Stroz Friedberg’s Minneapolis office, following a thirteen-year career as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Mr. Larson has oversight of digital forensics, electronic discovery, private investigations, compliance, and cybercrime response cases. He specializes in responding to computer intrusions, including in the context of corporate and state-sponsored espionage; the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT); data breach; intellectual property theft; employment matters, security reviews; Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters; PCI, SOX, HIPAA, and EU Privacy Directive assessments; malicious code analysis; vetting software for spyware, consumer fraud and illegal electronic surveillance; and cyber counterintelligence measures with custom tool development. He has handled cases involving wide-spread infiltration of defense contractors’ and Fortune 50 companies’ computer systems; instances of theft or data loss from highly sensitive corporate environments; analyzing digital rights management (DRM) software for privacy and regulatory violations; and performing expert analysis of spyware to serve as the basis for a civil suit against the software manufacturers.
As a computer forensics and eDiscovery expert, Mr. Larson’s notable engagements include serving as a neutral, special expert on legislative privileges, specifically the “speech or debate” clause of the Constitution; serving as an eDiscovery deposition expert in a spoliation claim where the client successfully settled a $279 million case; and serving as an expert witness in settlement negotiations in front of the Federal Trade Commission and numerous State Attorneys General.
Mr. Larson leads engagements involving anonymous threats, economic espionage, and unauthorized interception of email to C-Level executives. Awarded the FBI Director’s Award for "valuable contributions" to the successful investigation of a defendant convicted of cyber-extortion, Mr. Larson utilizes his prior experience as an FBI Evidence Response Team (ERT) Leader and as one of the original FBI Laboratory’s Computer Analysis and Response Team (CART) Field Examiners to coordinate several exams—for computer forensics, forensic document analysis, latent fingerprinting, and linguistic profiling of documents—offering unusual depth and breadth of services to clients. He has experience in matters involving employee collusion/bribery, bid fraud, and accounting frauds referred on for adjudication.
Mr. Larson served as Supervisor of the Computer Intrusion Squad at the FBI’s Washington Field Office and, while there, he ran the Computer Investigations Program. Among his more notable cases there were the computer investigative plan for the Robert Hanssen espionage case; consultation for the prosecution in the Brian Patrick Regan espionage case; and the analysis of certain computerized evidence in the Wen Ho Lee case. Mr. Larson was the FBI’s lead investigator in the “Solar Sunrise” case, which involved intrusions into over 200 Department of Defense computer systems. He was a member of the US delegation to the Group of Eight (G8) High Tech Crime Subgroup and served as the President of Interpol's Computer Crime Working Group of the Americas. He has taught at the FBI Academy and lectured at many government institutions. Currently an Adjunct Professor for Computer Forensics at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota, he earned a B.A. from the University of St. Thomas in the same city. Mr. Larson is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) and a Payment Card Industry (PCI) Qualified Security Assessor (QSA).