Andrew Harbison

Mr Harbison is one of the most experienced practitioners in the fields of digital investigations and electronic discovery in Ireland.

Over the last 25 years, has successfully completed over 1,000 IT forensic and cyber incident response investigations as well as several hundred electronic discovery projects, including the largest ever conducted in Ireland.

He established the Irish IT forensic investigations groups in three separate professional services firms and has carried out investigations, and supported legal cases, throughout Europe and in Asia, Australia and the US.

Mr Harbison also has expertise in cyber security, data protection and incident management. He has published extensively on IT forensics, electronic litigation, cyber security, computer fraud, and data privacy including recently, several academic articles on electronic litigation and information retrieval.

He holds a BE in electronic engineering and two Master’s degrees, in business administration and computer science. He has worked as a lecturer in both University College Dublin (in digital forensics) and Trinity College Dublin (in operations management).

He also lectures on diploma courses at the Law Society of Ireland, the King’s Inns and for Interpol.

He is a member of Engineers Ireland, the IEEE, the Society for Computers and Law and the UK Academy of Experts.