Ondrej Krehel, CISSP, CEH, CEI
Principal at LIFARS LLC

Ondrej Krehel is the founder and principal of LIFARS LLC, an international cyber security and digital forensics firm. He’s the former Chief Information Security Officer of Identity Theft 911, the nation’s premier identity theft recovery and data breach management service. He previously conducted forensics investigations and cyber security consulting at Stroz Friedberg.

With two decades of experience in computer security and forensics, he conducted a wide range of investigations, including data breached through computer intrusions, theft of intellectual property, massive deletions, defragmentation, file carvings, anti-money laundering, financial fraud, mathematical modeling and computer hacking.

Krehel’s experience also includes working as the IT Security Technical Project Leader for the Loews Corporation, Fortune 100 located New York City, and as a computer analyst for the Slovakian government-owned utility company.

He holds an M.S. degree in Mathematical Physics from Comenius University in Bratislava and an Engineering Diploma from Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia. Krehel is a frequent speaker at industry events and author on matters related to information security and computer forensic.

Among other industry groups, he is a member of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA), the Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC) and the International Council of Electronic Commerce (EC Council). He also is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH). He is one of the few that hold Certified Ethical Hacker Instructor (CEI) accreditation, and being authorized to lecture Ethical Hacking course to government and private sector.

His work has received attention from CNN, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, among many others.