Edwin Bosaw

Partner, Bosaw & Associates LLC

 

Ed Bosaw served four years in the U.S. Navy, including 13 months in the Republic of South Vietnam on River Patrol Boats. He received a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star (with a Combat V). After completing his service with the Navy, he attended the University of Evansville where he received a B.S. Degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Accounting in 1975 and shortly thereafter began his career with the Federal Government.

Following 27 years of federal law enforcement service, Mr. Bosaw retired in June 2002, as the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Office of Investigations Strategic Enforcement Division (SED), Cincinnati Operations, U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) (formerly the Internal Revenue Service Internal Security Division) and founded Bosaw & Associates LLC.

Mr. Bosaw's government career highlights include the development of a proactive electronic process called "Forensic Database Analysis" used on IRS data and audit logs to detect criminal and administrative violations that would have otherwise gone undetected, unsuspected and unreported. This process continues to enhance numerous criminal and administrative investigations to date.

In 1997, with Mr. Bosaw's advanced skills and leadership in forensic database analysis techniques, he was promoted to the Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge of SED's Research and Development Section. In that capacity, he personally developed the "Unauthorized Access and Fraudulent Use Detection System Requirements" for IRS' new Audit Trail Lead Analysis System (ATLAS). (See Pages 25 & 28-29 in "TIGTA's September 1999 Semiannual Report to Congress") (Pages 31 & 34-35 of the 1,011KB PDF document)

When ATLAS was launched in 1999, detection accuracy instantly increased from 6% to 41% compared to the process previously used by IRS IT, significantly reducing the time spent investigating frivolous violation leads.

Mr. Bosaw was subsequently promoted to Special Agent-in-Charge of the Strategic Enforcement Division. His duties included directing the division's two managers and twenty Special Agents, Internal Auditors and Computer Specialists. As senior manager, he was responsible for the division's general operations and strategic planning of "National Investigative Initiatives" using forensic data analysis.

His division represented only 5% of the Office of Investigations yet it proactively produced more than 18% of all new criminal investigations nationwide involving internal electronic fraud, unauthorized data accesses and data thefts by IRS employees and contractors.

He co-authored "The Hounds of Cyberville," an article discussing the Treasury Inspector General's Computer Security Program, on pages 43-45 in the "Journal of Public Inquiry Fall/Winter 1999 Edition", a publication by the Inspector Generals of the U.S. (pages 47-49 of the 10.8MB PDF document).

In May 2000, his division was honored by the Secretary of Treasury's Group Award for Investigative Excellence: "For their acomplishments in forming a unique investigations team to detect unauthorized accesses to confidential tax data on IRS systems."

In March 2001, he presented "Forensic Database Analysis Techniques" at Johns Hopkins University to the "Information Assurance Technology Framework Forum" on the topic of "Thwarting the Insider Threats via Operational Monitoring." This forum was sponsored by the U.S. National Security Agency and the Applied Computer Security Associates.

In May 2001, he was honored by receiving the Treasury Inspector General's Award for Outstanding Service to TIGTA as a Senior Manager.

In June 2001, he was assigned by the U.S. Treasury Department to develop and present a training session, concerning techniques to detect and investigate public corruption, to the El Salvador government prosecutors and national law enforcement officials.

In September 2001, within two hours of the 9/11 Terrorist Attack, Mr. Bosaw mobilized the Strategic Enforcement Division to begin coordinating with the JTTF (Joint Terrorism Task Force) working 24/7 for three months to secure, analyze and provide hundreds of gigabytes of IRS data and other information to the FBI's Special Investigations Operations Center (SIOC) in Washington D.C. (See Pages 2 & 21-23 in "TIGTA's March 2002 Semiannual Report to Congress") (Pages 7 & 26-28 of the 1,933KB PDF document)

After a subsequent terrorist indictment, he was responsible for accumulating and preparing the division's electronic discovery covering data SED developed during the investigation.