We are pleased to announce that Michael P. French and Chris Cope, FBI cyber agents from the Richmond field office will be keynoting RVAsec 2022!

Chris Cope is the Supervisor Special Agent of FBI Richmond’s Cyber Squad.  He joined the FBI in 2009 and was assigned to the FBI New York field office, working criminal cyber intrusions.  In 2015, Chris accepted a promotion to Cyber Division headquarters to work nation state cyber threats and later accepted another promotion in 2019 to Field Supervisor of FBI Richmond’s Cyber Squad.  Chris’s background includes a Masters in Cyber Security from Penn State University and ten years as an Oracle Systems Administrator, prior to the FBI.

Special Agent Michael P. French has been with the FBI since 2004 and specializes in conducting investigations into criminal and national security computer intrusions.