About the Speaker
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    Peter Roman
    Senior Counsel, Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Justice Department

    Peter Roman is a federal cybercrimes prosecutor and a former Oracle DBA and UNIX system administrator. After 14 years working in IT, and following the events of September 11, 2001, Mr. Roman went back to school and became a lawyer so that he could become a prosecutor. Now, he melds his cyber and legal experience working for the Department of Justice prosecuting hackers, carders, fraudsters, and others who use computers and the internet to commit crime.