Michael Khoury

Michael Khoury is an expert in digital forensics, investigations and emerging data sources, with a focus on cloud forensics, cybersecurity risks, e-discovery and dispute advisory. Mr. Khoury brings more than 20 years of industry experience assisting organisations in ensuring effective and defensible data handling in complex disputes, investigations, cybersecurity incidents and regulatory matters. He also helps clients research and integrate generative AI into digital forensics and e-discovery workflows, with the aim of enhancing data analysis, document review and identification of key case insights.

Mr. Khoury has significant experience in investigating data breaches, intellectual property theft, breaches of confidentiality, employee misconduct and workplace disputes, as well as financial fraud. He has spearheaded complex e-discovery assignments related to commercial litigation, royal commissions, data breach reviews, regulatory notices and parliamentary inquiries, leveraging his expertise in incident response and digital forensics. Mr. Khoury also focuses on applying generative AI to support incident response, e-discovery, intellectual property theft investigations, regulatory matters, misconduct inquiries and more.

Advising clients on high-profile investigations assignments, Mr. Khoury’s work spans corporate, government and legal fields. He has led a range of matters as an independent expert witness and consulting expert in the financial services, healthcare, energy, retail and insurance industries. As emerging data sources, chat applications and cloud systems have proliferated as significant sources of electronic evidence, Mr. Khoury has established extensive technical knowledge and experience solving challenges related to collecting, analysing and reviewing complex data types. He has led teams in applying FTI Technology’s Connect and Universal Messaging Platforms, AI-driven natural language processing tools and other proprietary solutions to client matters, to streamline the identification and organisation of evidence in complex investigations.

Mr. Khoury regularly provides written and oral evidence as a testifying expert in criminal and civil proceedings and arbitrations. He is frequently retained as an expert witness in matters requiring the application of computer forensic skills to provide answers to legal and investigative cases. Mr. Khoury has also led and managed civil and criminal-based search warrants on behalf of government bodies and law firms in local and multijurisdictional territories. In addition, he is well-versed in preparing and delivering analysis results to state and federal courts.

Prior to FTI Technology, Mr. Khoury served as a partner and national leader for the forensic technology division of a Big Four firm, where he specialised in digital forensics, cyber incident response recovery and readiness and e-discovery services.

Relevant Experience:

• Appointed as independent expert in a case involving allegations of misleading and deceptive conduct at an airline; submitted an expert report in these proceedings
• Served as the independent expert for the University of Sydney; submitted expert and joint expert reports in a copyright dispute involving the theft of source code
• Performed a cyber investigation into allegations of unauthorised data access and transmission to external sources, including the use of sophisticated software and potential syndicate links