HTCIA 3rd Annual Asia Pacific Regional Training Conference
Presenter Details

VIP Introduction Speech - Mr. Bernhard Otupal, Assistant Director, Financial and High Tech Crime Sub-Directorate, INTERPOL General Secretariat, Lyon, France

Bernhard Otupal has more than 25 years of law enforcement experience and academic studies in both a national and international environment, culminating in more than 5 years at the International Criminal Police Organization INTERPOL as Team Leader, Assistant Director and Senior Training Coordinator. He has been involved during that time in international relations - at police agency and governmental level. This has included close cooperation with the private sector in the framework of Public Private Partnership, for example in the field of Intellectual Property Rights, Identity Theft or BotNets.

His qualifications cover a broad range of skill sets: of particular note are a Master's degree in Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Investigation; the Gendarmerie Academy certification in management of police in both operational and business functionality. Training in Intelligence Operations; Criminal Case Development and Analyses; CISSP training by ISC2 in Security Management Practices, Security Architecture and Models, Access Control Systems and Methodology, Application Development Security, Operations Security, Physical Security, Cryptography, Telecommunications, Network and Internet Security.

He is currently Assistant Director within the Specialized Crimes Directorate of INTERPOL responsible for Financial Crime, Intellectual Property Crime, High Tech Crime, and Computer Forensics