Brendan Read

A former detective from the Queensland Police High Tech Crime Investigation Unit, Brendan’s experience in investigating criminal and civil matters helps clients to navigate technologies and their use in the collection and preservation of evidence.

With over 19 years’ experience in giving evidence in criminal and civil cases, Brendan assists clients in stressful situations by clarifying technology.

Brendan specialises in the investigation of cyber incidents and has an open, collaborative style. He communicates clearly with any audience regardless of the complexity of the issues.

Brendan has been appointed as an independent expert in a number of matters before the Supreme Court of Queensland and Queensland Industrial Relations Commission relating to matters of intellectual property theft, fraud, misconduct as well as civil matters.

Brendan has extensive experience in the preparation of expert reports, affidavits and giving oral testimony in proceedings.

Within the community, Brendan is the current Secretary of the Brisbane chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).

Significant engagements

• Engaged by a corporate client to investigate a significant data hack and ransomware attack against its Australian and overseas based parent company.
• Engaged by law firm to act as an independent computer forensic expert in the investigation of a cyber incident involving a property investment firm.
• Engaged by a corporate client to assist in an investigation of a large data breach involving an exposure period of a number of years which related to high confidential data. 
• Engaged by a corporate client based in New Zealand to investigate a cyber incident involving their network administrator.
• Engaged by the State of Queensland to assist with the collection and management of electronic evidence for the largest environmental investigation undertaken by the Queensland Government.