About Us

Hadron Computer Forensics and Investigations is operated by Joseph R. Cipollini. Mr. Cipollini's distinguished career includes 31-years of combined service as a Ventura County District Attorney's Office Investigator as well as a Ventura County Deputy Sheriff. Mr. Cipollini, an EnCE certified computer forensics examiner, was a lead examiner for the Southern California High Technology Task Force-Camarillo Laboratory.

During his nine year tenure at the High Technology Task Force, Mr. Cipollini conducted hundreds of digital forensic examinations from homicides to official misconduct. Mr. Cipollini has testified as forensic computer expert witness on numerous occasions, most recently for the California Attorney General's Office in a multiple defendant jury trial for conspiracy to commit murder of a deputy district attorney.

While assigned to the Southern California High Technology Task Force, Mr. Cipollini provided training to police officers, detectives, probation officers, citizens, and prosecutors. The topics included: Identification of Digital Evidence, Investigation of High Technology Crimes, Internet Crimes, and authoring Search Warrants.

As a forensic examiner, Mr. Cipollini received two renowned awards within the field:

• 2009 High Technology Crime Investigations Association-Case of the Year
• 2010 Guidance Software Computer Enterprise & Investigations Conference (CEIC) Excellence in Computer Forensics Award

Accolades

Throughout Mr. Cipollini's career, he received accolades from prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, and jurors. The comments included:

• If I committed a crime, Joe is the last guy I would want investigating my computer-Howard Wise, Senior Prosecutor
• If it were not for Joe Cipollini, we could not have convicted this psychopath killer who committed these crimes-Cheryl Temple, Senior Prosecutor
• Joe Cipollini was brilliant. He was a great witness-he even made me understand computers-Juror People v. Randolph Kling
• From the audience, I thought your testimony was very clear and fair-minded, which should leave the jury with a great impression- Supervising Deputy Attorney General

Get insight into Mr. Cipollini's efforts in the June 2012 edition of the Los Angeles Magazine article by Louise Farr "A Terrifying Tale of Identity Theft" and the online interview by her editor "Postscript: The Identity Thief".