National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance

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Founding Partners

In the early organizational and procedural forming phase of NCFTA, the following organizations provided invaluable input and support for this project:

Private Organizations

Microsoft
CISCO
Marconi
KPMG
Federated Investors
RAND
Lucent Technologies
Mellon Financial
PNC
IBM
AT&T
Seagate

Four Rivers Associates, LLC
Allegheny Technologies
Stargate Industries
West Virginia High Tech Consortium Foundation
Pittsburgh Technology Council
Concurrent Technology Corporation (CTC)
PPG Industries
Westinghouse
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP

Public Organizations

U.S. Department of Justice CCIPS
United States Attorneys' Offices for Pennsylvania and West Virginia
Multiple FBI headquarters divisions
U.S. Secret Service
U.S. Postal Inspection Service
Internal Revenue Service — Criminal Investigative Division
Department of Defense (DCIS and DSSA)
NASA
Pennsylvania State Police
Pennsylvania Governor's Office
Allegheny County District Attorney Office
National Association of Attorneys General

Universities and Academic Institutions
As National Security Agency (NSA) certified "Centers of Excellence for Information Assurance," the following academic institutions establish a high level of credibility from the academic perspective for this project.

Carnegie Mellon University
University of Pittsburgh
West Virginia University

Additional academic institutions contributing to this project include:

Duquesne University
Penn State University
Indiana University of Pennsylvania

The collective input from all of these organizations helped to produce a trusted environment and a dynamic pool of resources where SMEs develop and exchange critical information regarding cybercrime problems and best practices.