Director of Global Investigations
Universal Music Group
Ben Bass is a retired 23-year veteran of the United States Secret Service and currently employed as the Director of Global Investigations for Universal Music Group. Prior to Ben’s retirement from the U.S. Secret Service in 2022, he spent six years as the Special Agent in Charge and Director of the National Computer Forensics Institute (NCFI) in Hoover, Alabama. The NCFI is the country’s primary federally funded training center dedicated to instructing and equipping state and local law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges for cybercrime investigations, digital evidence analysis, and case law. Ben directed a $42.9M budget and led a team of 47 employees and contractors to accomplish the U.S. Secret Service’s cyber training mission. Ben also served as the primary U.S. Secret Service liaison to over 2,500 different law enforcement agencies that attended the NCFI. Ben and his team spearheaded research on secure hardware configurations, ransomware, network intrusion response, and mitigation of threats from emerging technologies. During his time at the NCFI, Ben worked persistently to implement a five-year growth strategy for the NCFI cyber incident response program resulting in metrics and analysis of 52 petabytes of data contained in 550K digital media forensics nationwide.
Ben holds his BA from Baylor University and his MBA from the University of Texas, Arlington. Throughout his career, Ben is proud to have worked with law enforcement from multiple foreign countries executing both Presidential Protective operations and cyber-fraud investigations.
