DANNY MYBURGH - MANAGING DIRECTOR

Danny founded Cyanre in 2002 with the aim of establishing the company as a recognized and respected role player in the IT forensic market. Danny was responsible for establishing the National Computer Crime Investigation Unit for the South African Police Services (SAPS), and was appointed as commander, which position he held until his resignation. During this period he developed the Standing Operating Procedures for computer investigations in South Africa for the SAPS. He was involved in the assessment and compilation of the Electronic Transaction and Communications Act (ETC), which legislates computer crime and electronic commerce in South Africa and has a sound knowledge of the legislation. He wrote the internal training manual for all SAPS members on how to manage and investigate a crime involving computers and also wrote the training manual on computer crime investigation for Technikon SA for their National Diploma, Police Administration and is regularly involved in giving lectures to SAPS personnel, financial institutions and investigation firms.

Danny was trained in computer crime, Internet and hacking investigations by the FBI and the French Police. He also received training in counter hacking measures by Ernst & Young as well as obtaining an International N+ certificate and training in the use of Analyst Notebook for data analysis. During 2004, Danny attended the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centre (FLETC) in the USA and obtained his qualification as a Seized Computer Evidence Recovery Specialist (SCERS). Danny is also qualified as an Encase Certified Examiner (EnCE) and has attended the Access Data Forensic Toolkit (FTK) Bootcamp training course.

Danny was the chairman of the Interpol African Working Party on Cyber Crime from 2002 until 2005 and representative of Africa on the Interpol International Steering Committee on Cyber Crime.

Danny has successfully managed various investigations on organized crime syndicates involved in computer related crimes such as 419 scams, fraud syndicates, paedophiles, political activists, procurement fraud, corruption and money laundering amongst others. He also has experience in the investigation of transgressions of legislation and IT policies by employees, malicious code/program attacks on computer networks and hacking incidents. Many of these investigations were conducted with the co-operation of various international and local investigation bodies such as Scotland Yard, FBI, US Secret Service, Interpol, Scorpions, National Intelligence Agency, Ernest & Young, Deloitte, SARS, and SANDF. He has conducted computer related investigations in countries such as Nigeria, Namibia, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Swaziland. Some of the more well know cases Danny investigated successfully include:

• The State vs Dirk Prinsloo and Cezaan Visser alias “Advocate Barbie” - investigation into child Pornography.
• Coaltrans - Procurement Fraud.
• Billy Masetla/National Intelligence Agency (NIA)/Jacob Zuma - e-mail scandal.
• Weapons of Mass Destruction (SA’s Nuclear capacity) State vs Geiges & Wisser.