Assistant United States Attorney Thomas Brown is the Deputy Chief for Cyber of the Complex Frauds Unit at the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. As Deputy Chief for Cyber, Mr. Brown leads a group of twenty AUSAs focused on prosecuting computer and intellectual property offenses, including computer hacking, Internet-based fraud, theft of trade secrets, and criminal copyright and trademark infringement, with an emphasis on overseas criminal groups. Mr. Brown also serves as an advisor to other AUSAs on cyber crime and electronic evidence matters, and has lectured on electronic surveillance issues and cyber prosecutions to business and law enforcement groups. In addition, Mr. Brown is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law where he teaches a seminar on cyber crime, covering computer misuse crimes, intellectual property offenses, the Fourth Amendment in cyberspace, computer evidence at trial, data breach and privacy issues, and information security, among other areas.