Who we are…

The Cybercrime Information Center is a collaborative effort of subject matter experts, advisors, and contributors.

Dave Piscitello

Dave has worked with national law enforcement agencies and cybercrime first responders to mitigate phishing, spam, malware and botnet attacks for over 20 years, and was the 2019 recipient of the M3AAWG Mary Litinsky Award for a Lifetime of Fighting DNS and Online Abuse.

He is an Associate Fellow of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, a member of the Antiphishing Working Group (APWG) Board of Directors and its Internet Policy Committee, and a member of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE) Board of Directors. During his tenure as VP of Security at ICANN, Dave was an invited participant in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Security Expert Group and the Commonwealth Cybercrime Committee.

Dave directs research activity at the Cybercrime information Center.

He holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Philosophy from Villanova University.

Colin Strutt

Colin held various technical leadership roles during a 20 year tenure at Digital Equipment and represented DEC and the FSTC on national and international industry standards bodies. Colin holds six patents on enterprise management technology. He brings more than 40 years of direct experience with information technology to the Cybercrime Information Center, as a developer, architect, and consultant. Dr. Strutt's expertise and experience have created substantial and sustainable value for a broad range of enterprises.

Colin focuses on data collection, organization, analysis, and reporting at the Center. Other recent work includes design and operation of a regional public safety network, providing technical expertise relating to patents, and analysis of world-wide Internet use.

Colin is a member of the British Computer Society and ACM. Dr. Strutt holds a B.A. (with First Class Honours) and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Essex University (UK).

Lyman Chapin

Lyman is a co-founder of Interisle Consulting Group and former Chief Scientist at BBN Technologies. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a former chairman of the Internet Architecture Board Chairman (IAB), and ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM). Mr. Chapin was a founding trustee of the Internet Society and a Director of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Lyman is responsible for project and business relationship management for the Cybercrime Information Center..

Lyman currently chairs ICANN's Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel (RSTEP), which is responsible for assessing the impact of new Domain Name System (DNS) registry services on the security and stability of the Internet, and the DNS Stability Panel, which evaluates proposals for new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) as country code top-level domains (ccTLDs). He is also a member of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC).

Mr. Chapin holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Cornell University.

Greg Aaron

Greg is an internationally recognized authority on the misuse of domain names for cybercrime, and is an expert on DNS policy, domain name registry operations, and related intellectual property issues. He is Senior Research Fellow for the Anti-Phishing Working Group. As a member of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), he advises the international community regarding the domain name and numbering system that makes the Internet function, and has been engaged creating registration data access policies to satisfy the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). He was the senior industry expert on a team that evaluated the policy and technical merits of more than one thousand new TLD applications to ICANN.

Greg works with industry, researchers, and law enforcement to investigate and mitigate cybercrime, and is also a licensed private detective. He has created products and services used by organizations to discover and track Internet-based threats, and has managed large top-level domains around the world, including .INFO, .ME, and .IN. He is President of Illumintel, Inc., a consulting company. Greg contributes to research and analytics activities that employ data curated at the Cybercrime Information Center.

John Levine

John is an author, consultant and speaker. John is the primary author of the well known Internet for Dummies and many other books, and has been running e-mail systems since the 1970s. He is the President of CAUCE North America, the leading grass roots anti-spam advocacy organization. Levine is a Senior Technical Adviser to the Messaging Anti-abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), board member of the Internet Society, and a member of the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC). John contributes to the Cybercrime Information Center as a developer and threat intelligence data subject matter expert.

Taylor Piscitello

Taylor is a freelance writer and creative content developer. She has published articles for Comic Book Resources on diverse topics, from Non-Fungible Tokens and Autism to Marvel Actors and Netflix series. She has written scripts for YouTube channel "TheThings" and served as the Instagram coordinator for a women’s non-profit organization, Pioneers in Skirts. Taylor provides creative content and social media management for the Cybercrime Information Center and produces streaming content for the Cybercrime Information Center’s YouTube channel.