School of Computing and Mathematics University of South Wales Pontypridd,
United Kingdom

Dr. Andrew Blyth, formally the Director of the Information Security Research Group at the University of South Wales has functioned as an expert witness in the area of computer forensic and data recovery for a wide variety of law enforcement agencies, such as the Home Office, SOCA, and the Metropolitan Police. Dr.  Blyth has also published several journal papers on the areas of computer forensic and data recovery and is one of the leading global authorities on data sanitization and forensic techniques on solid state media. Dr. Blyth is on the ISO advisory board for standards relating to Computer Forensics, is   a member of the National IA forum, and works with UK government agencies, including the Defence Science Technology Laboratory.