Harald Hertel

Harald Hertel has more than a decade of experience helping clients solve interdisciplinary forensic technology cases. Mr. Hertel’s experience spans the fields of digital forensics and incident response (“DFIR”), cybersecurity readiness, e-discovery, mobile forensics and investigations.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Hertel was a Managing Director at a global advisory and expert services firm, after spending several years at a Big Four consulting firm on the Forensic Technology team. He has led and conducted numerous digital forensic investigations to resolve data leaks, intellectual property theft, fraud, embezzlement of company funds and other areas of crime and misconduct. He has managed cyber incident readiness and response projects, including an advanced persistent threat (“APT”) case for more than nine months at a global company in the tourism industry in Germany.

Mr. Hertel has worked with large global organizations, law enforcement agencies in cooperation with public prosecutor’s offices, the German Federal Police Office (“BKA”) and the State Criminal Police Office (“LKA”). Notably, his professional experience includes the data acquisition and data processing of hundreds of digital evidence files in the then-largest fraud case in Germany, in cooperation with the public prosecutor’s office.

Mr. Hertel holds a Global Information Assurance Certification (“GIAC”) Security Leadership Certification. He was recently named to the Who’s Who Legal Data 2024 Experts list.