The professor who trains the investigators builds the tools.
Adam Scott Wandt is a tenured Associate Professor of Public Policy and Deputy Chair for Technology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), an attorney, and a nationally recognized expert in cybercrime, OSINT, and digital forensics. ProfWorkBench is his answer to a question two decades in the making: what would forensic software look like if it were held to the same standard as the evidence it handles?
He founded the company in New York and leads its bench: a small team spanning cybersecurity, digital forensics, incident response, and cyber threat intelligence, backed by a beta corps of working practitioners.
Invited instructor and speaker for the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force on cryptocurrency investigations, OSINT, IoT data collection, and email forensics; repeat presenter at the Department of Defense Inspector General at the Pentagon's Mark Center; institute instructor for the Association of Inspectors General.
Attorney and counselor-at-law in New York. Co-chair of the New York City Bar Association's AI & Digital Technologies Task Force subcommittee on cybersecurity; longtime member of the Bar's committee on technology, cyber law, and privacy.
Author of investigative software developed in partnership with the FBI and the National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance, including financial-forensics and counter-child-predator analysis systems.
Before the professorship: peace officer, EMS Deputy Chief responsible for 200+ members, advanced EMT, hazmat operations officer, incident commander. The chain of custody is not an abstraction to him.
Twenty years of research and fieldwork kept surfacing the same problem: the tools investigators depend on quietly leak, track, and phone home: the very behaviors an examiner is trained to hunt.
In 2026 he founded ProfWorkBench, LLC in New York to build the alternative: a suite of native macOS and iOS instruments built to a strict standard: nothing about you reported back to us, every outside connection disclosed, and hashes, logs and reports that law enforcement, corporate counsel, and everyday users can check rather than trust.
Every application is designed and engineered by the founder, then worked over by the bench before it ships. Write to the secure desk and it lands with that bench: the founder reads every ticket and answers many himself.
Journal articles on darknet markets, digital evidence and surveillance, each reviewed by other scholars before publication.
Also published in the Ohio State Law Journal, Springer's Encyclopedia of Security and Emergency Management and the Policy Studies Journal's Public Policy Yearbook, with a research dataset archived at ICPSR. The full list is at cv.wandt.us.
200+ press citations, television interviews, and radio segments on cybercrime, surveillance, and digital evidence, indexed at cv.wandt.us/media.
Enterprise licensing, agency procurement, expert consultation, or a hard question about our architecture: the secure desk is end-to-end encrypted; the bench answers, and the founder reads every ticket.