Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative

Watch Brian M. Boynton discuss civil cyber-fraud initiative as part of the Cybersecurity Summit 2021 Day Two presentations. This video is a recording of the livestream held on Wednesday, October 13, 2021. 

The National Cybersecurity Summit is an annual event that brings together cybersecurity and critical infrastructure stakeholders from around the world to hold meaningful conversations and collaborate on how we can protect our physical and cyber infrastructure.

About the Speaker

Brian M. Boynton, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice (DOJ)

Brian M. Boynton joined the Department of Justice on January 20, 2021, as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division. He has been serving as the Acting Attorney General for the Division since that time. Prior to rejoining the Department, Mr. Boynton was a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in Washington, D.C. He previously served at the Department from late 2014 through early 2017, first as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel and then as a Counselor to Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch.

Prior to that service, Mr. Boynton had been the Vice Chair of the Government and Regulatory Litigation Group at WilmerHale, where he practiced from 2002 through 2014. Mr. Boynton clerked for then-Chief Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Judge Vaughn R. Walker at the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Mr. Boynton graduated from Stanford Law School in 2000 and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1997.