Robert DeCicco is the Principal operator and testifying expert at Quint, LLC. He specializes in providing services related to digital forensics incident response, forensic examinations, deepfake detection and forensics, autonomous intelligence, steganography, ephemeral messaging forensics, cyber security and electronic discovery for a variety of high-profile and confidential clients. He is a court accepted expert for a host of technology related disciplines in district, state and federal jurisdictions both nationwide and abroad.

With more than 25 years of technology experience, Mr DeCicco has performed hands-on examinations and analysis of computer data and the day to day management of staff along with authoring and ensuring compliance of policies and operating procedures. He has actively managed, participated in and defended opinions on the full life cycle of electronic evidence in electronic discovery including the collection and analysis of electronic evidence and it’s behavior from thousands of computers, cloud-based storage environments, databases, IoT devices, mobile devices and emerging data systems from extremely complex, disparate and sensitive technology environments throughout the world.

Mr DeCicco is a former civilian employee of the National Security Agency (NSA) and regularly works in conjunction with regulatory and law enforcement agencies to provide acceptable practises and defensible sound data collection, processing and analysis protocols. He also maintains active involvement in the standard operating procedures group related to acceptable methodologies related to ESI collection and analysis in the field and in the lab and often lectures to the technology and legal communities.

Prior to founding Quint, LLC, Mr DeCicco served as a managing director testifying expert with a bankruptcy and restructuring firm, a co-leader of the technology segment of the global investigations and strategic intelligence practice at a global consulting firm, as a managing director and global practice leader of digital forensics incident response at Navigant/Ankura consulting and as a managing director, in the technology practice as the central division leader and global risk and investigations practice liaison at FTI Consulting as well an instrumental case manager and execution lead at a startup digital forensics firm which was acquired by Protiviti.

Mr DeCicco earned a bachelor’s degree in management / management information systems from Pennsylvania State University. He also studied incident response forensic analysis and discovery at guidance software professional training center and cyber security incident response malware detection and removal, memory forensics and remediation at Mandiant Security Consultancy. Mr DeCicco is an Encase Certified Examiner (EnCE), a licensed private investigator in the State of Texas and a member of the Sedona Conference Working Group 6, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), American Bar Association (ABA), The Guild of Forensic Scientists and frequently lectures to both the technology and legal community.