Ed has thirteen years of active duty military service during which time he served as a Federal Agent as a Computer Crime Investigator with the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations. He has conducted computer intrusion investigations for the United States Air Force, conducted hundreds of Computer Forensic examinations on electronic stored data for the purpose of evidence preservation and admissibility in court, and has testified numerous times in Federal Court. He identified how and where intruders potentially access computer systems and then collected pertinent evidence to assist in prosecuting the perpetrator and provided valuable information to Air Force System Administrator on computer system's vulnerabilities and network security.