Stroz Friedberg Inc.
Stroz Friedberg Inc., founded in 2000, is a global digital risk management and investigations firm specializing in digital forensics, data breach and cybercrime response, electronic discovery, and business intelligence and investigations. Working at the crossroads of technology, law, and behavioral science, the firm helps corporations, advisory and law firms, governments and individuals manage the inherent risks and responsibilities of doing business in a digital era. Stroz Friedberg is often engaged in crisis situations to help protect its clients’ intellectual property, financial, and reputational interests.
Stroz Friedberg’s Co-Presidents include Ed Stroz, former head of the FBI’s Cyber Crime Unit, and Eric Friedberg, former U.S. Attorney in charge of cybercrimes prosecutions in New York. The Company’s senior professionals are drawn from an elite pool of former FBI Supervisory Special Agents, US Attorney’s Office Cybercrime Prosecutors, Senate General Counsel, and other government and legislative senior professionals. Together they deliver an unparalleled level of expertise in law, law enforcement, criminal investigations, information technology, and behavioral science to the firm’s clients.
New Mountain evaluated Stroz Friedberg as part of a multi-year, proactive “deep dive” into the information security, federal services, software, and eDiscovery sectors. As a result of New Mountain’s prior relationships with Stroz Friedberg’s shareholders, proactive industry efforts and its reputation for building businesses, New Mountain was able to work with the Stroz Friedberg management team to make its investment outside of an auction process.