Career
As a Special Agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Peter Garza conducted the first court-ordered Internet wiretap in the United States while investigating the Julio Cesar Ardita ("El Griton") hacking case. Ardita was charged by the United States. Justice Department with using compromised user accounts at Harvard University to hack into government and university computer systems in the United States. and abroad. Ardita pled guilty on May 19, 1998 in the United States District Court of Massachusetts to unlawfully intercepting electronic communications and damaging files on military computer systems
Mr.
Garza founded EvidentData, Incorporated., a private sector consulting firm specializing in computer forensics, electronic discovery, and expert consulting, in 1999. EvidentData was acquired by First Advantage which he left in 2009 to form Data Forté. Garza continues to be involved in many high-profile civil cases.
Peter Garza earned a Master of Science in Information Systems from Claremont Graduate University in 2001.
He also developed and taught a graduate course in Computer Forensics at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
