Ronald Kaplan, MS, MBA is a partner at SICons, a management consulting and computer forensic expert witness firm in Los Angeles. He has authored articles ranging from smartphone privacy and security to malware and encryption issues published all over the globe. He has taught several courses on computer-related subjects at UCLA extension and testified or consulted as an expert on a wide variety of technical issues in dozens of cases. He can be reached at rkaplan@sicons.com.