Cameron H. Malin

Cameron H. Malin, JD, CISSP, is a Cyber Behavioral Profiler and former Supervisory Special Agent/Behavioral Profiler with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), specializing in the assessment of Cyber Threat Actor Decision Making, Adversary Tradecraft, Cyber Deception and Cognitive Vulnerabilities. He has more than 22 years of experience investigating, analyzing, and profiling cyber adversaries across the spectrum of criminal to national security attacks.

During his tenure in the FBI, he was the founder of both the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit’s (BAU) Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center (CBAC)—the FBI BAU's methodology and application of science-based behavioral profiling and assessment to national security and criminal cyber offenders—and the BAU’s Deception and Influence Group (DIG), a uniquely trained and experienced cadre of Behavioral Profilers specialized in analyses and countermeasures to adversary cyber deception campaigns and influence operations.

Mr. Malin is the developer of the Digital Behavioral Criminalistics™, a combined application of numerous forensic disciplines—digital forensics, criminalistics, and behavioral sciences—to meaningfully uncover offender thoughts and actions in digital artifacts. He formally introduced this discipline in his book chapter, “Digital Behavioral Criminalistics to Elucidate the Cyber Pathway to Intended Violence,” in the International Handbook of Threat Assessment, 2nd Edition (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Mr. Malin is a co-author of the authoritative cyber deception book, Deception in the Digital Age: Exploiting and Defending Human Targets Through Computer-Mediated Communications (published by Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc.) and co-author of the Malware Forensics book series: Malware Forensics: Investigating and Analyzing Malicious Code, Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems, and Malware Forensics Field Guide for Linux Systems (all published by Syngress, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc.).