Jason is an active researcher, academic, trainer, advisor and assessor in the international digital forensics and cybersecurity communities. He is a Principal Instructor with the internationally renowned SANS Institute. In this capacity he teaches digital forensics around the world, including to some of the leading international law enforcement, intelligence, and miliary units such as the Federal Bureau of Investigations, the US Secret Service, US Special Operations Command, Scotland Yard, the UK National Crime Agency, and many others. He also has provided digital forensics and incident response training to numerous companies in the Fortune 500 list. He is also as Assistant Professor at the SANS Technology Institute. He has also taught digital forensics at the University of Cape Town, the University of Pretoria, and Rhodes University.

He currently serves on the SANS Advisory Board and on the Advisory Board of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pretoria. He also served on the expert advisory panel for the South African Deputy Minister of Justice for cybercrime legislation and has advised the South African Police Service on the South African National Cybercrime Strategy.

Jason is an assessor for the Netherlands Register of Court Experts and is responsible for the assessing the competency of digital forensics practitioners testifying in court in the Netherlands. He is a Director of the Institute of Commercial Forensic Practitioners of South Africa. He has previously served as a Director of the South African Academy of Forensic Sciences, and the South African Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

His digital forensics, cybersecurity, and cyberlaw research has been published in textbooks and international peer-reviewed journals, and he is a frequent speaker at professional, scientific, and technical conferences internationally. He also sits on several international and local conference advisory boards.