Dr. Diana Summers is a cyber criminologist and policing scholar, and serves as the Academic Director for the region’s Joint Electronic Crimes Task Force (JECTF) – a state-of-the-art digital forensics laboratory jointly operated by UA and UAPD. Dr. Summers has an active Top Secret/SCI national security clearance and her areas of expertise include darknet-based criminality, drug trafficking, law enforcement (use of force, community policing, active shooter preparedness), and digital forensics. Dr. Summers also studies matters of national security and cybersecurity and warfare. Dr. Summers is certified in mobile device and vehicle forensics, and is a certified operator of the VirTra firearms training simulator system.
Dr. Summers manages a darknet research team staffed with Cyber Intelligence Analysts and provides free training to all law enforcement agencies. The training schedule can be found on her website.
Past interviews and media features include TIME Magazine, The Boston Globe, and NBC News. Diana Summers
University of Alabama
- Associate Professor
- Academic Director, JECTF
Dr. Diana Summers is a cyber criminologist and policing scholar, and serves as the Academic Director for the region’s Joint Electronic Crimes Task Force (JECTF) – a state-of-the-art digital forensics laboratory jointly operated by UA and UAPD. Dr. Summers has an active Top Secret/SCI national security clearance and her areas of expertise include darknet-based criminality, drug trafficking, law enforcement (use of force, community policing, active shooter preparedness), and digital forensics. Dr. Summers also studies matters of national security and cybersecurity and warfare. Dr. Summers is certified in mobile device and vehicle forensics, and is a certified operator of the VirTra firearms training simulator system.
Dr. Summers manages a darknet research team staffed with Cyber Intelligence Analysts and provides free training to all law enforcement agencies. The training schedule can be found on her website.
Past interviews and media features include TIME Magazine, The Boston Globe, and NBC News.