Meet Our Experts: Jason Paroff

Senior Director of Operations, Computer Forensics

Jason Paroff is the senior director of computer forensics operations with the Electronic Evidence Services group of Kroll Ontrack. In addition to his management role, Mr. Paroff has examined numerous computers and computer systems for evidence of fraud, theft of trade secrets, harassment, and other improper civil and criminal conduct. Mr. Paroff has testified in federal district court as an expert witness in the field of computer forensics and has been a conference panel member and presenter, as well as a guest lecturer at Columbia University’s School of Business. Mr. Paroff also teaches computer forensics to Fortune 500 corporations and has taught computer forensics to members of foreign police and intelligence agencies.

Prior to joining Kroll Ontrack, Mr. Paroff worked as a prosecutor for six years in the Rockland County District Attorney’s Office in New York. The majority of Mr. Paroff’s career has been dedicated to investigating and prosecuting white-collar crime, computer crime, and civil asset forfeiture cases. During his tenure with the District Attorney’s Office, Mr. Paroff headed the asset forfeiture section and supervised major criminal and civil investigations involving insurance, bank, consumer, credit card, and other frauds. Mr. Paroff was actively involved in the seizure and subsequent search of many computers and also sat on the County of Rockland’s Computer Network Committee. Mr. Paroff holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester and a J.D. from Pace University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in the state courts of New York and Connecticut as well as before the federal courts of the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He has served as the president of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association’s Northeast Chapter and also held positions as secretary, treasurer, and first vice president of that chapter.

Favorite Project: A multinational company experienced the simultaneous crashing of seven e-mail servers in key locations around the world. This brought down the company’s e-mail system and caused significant disruption to its business, as well as great expense to investigate the issue and restore the system to full functionality. Through computer forensics, a logic bomb that erased hundreds of system files through an automated process was found on each affected server, which eventually resulted in the system crash. Also using computer forensics, previously deleted draft versions of the logic bomb were located and recovered from an administrator’s workstation. The matter was referred to law enforcement officials, who eventually arrested and prosecuted the system administrator.

E-Mail Address: jparoff@krollontrack.com