You’ve Been Hacked, Now What?

I’m looking forward to joining Loren Dealy Mahler and Kevin Walsh, CISM next week to discuss #incidentresponse best practices, during a #CyberSecurity panel discussion moderated by Armistead Whitney of Apptega.

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Enjoyed my time with a lively AICPA conference audience this morning…

Kudos to the thousand-plus that showed up EARLY this morning to hear my CyberSecurity keynote presentation. This conference has some impressive talent taking the stage (present company excluded), so it was an honor to present to such a sophisticated audience on a topic that isn’t always front-and-center in their lives.

Today’s #GoodGuysPrevail Update…

U.S. Department of Justice secures guilty plea from a Lithuanian citizen, for his role in orchestrating a business-email-compromise-driven #fraud scheme that induced two companies to wire a total of over $100 million USD.

#BEC #cybersecurity #phishing

https://lnkd.in/e6wh8sG

Cybersecurity put under investor microscope

Cybersecurity put under investor microscope Pensions & Investments Asset owners are examining Wall Street *service* providers, including managers and custodians, to ensure they have sound security practices.

Source: Cybersecurity put under investor microscope

My AICPA Keynote Presentation on Blockchain…

I had a great deal of fun presenting at this conference in the Fall of 2018.  If you have an interest in viewing a plain-English, digestible introduction to blockchain technologies, this video may just be right for you.

#GoodGuysPrevail: Chinese Spy to be tried in U.S. for IP Theft

A Chinese spy is extradited to the U.S. after stealing technology secrets…this senior military officer now faces prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice on economic espionage charges, a precedent in the battle against China’s decades-old practice of “developing its economy at the expense of American know-how” (a lovely euphemism for stealing with great profligacy).

Full Washington Post story is here.

Tech companies: Top 3 cybersecurity myths…

A recent piece on which I collaborated (with my @GrantThorntonUS colleague Orus Dearman), focused on some of the common misconceptions we see within our Technology clients vis-à-vis #CyberSecurity…

The plot sickens…

Investigators are examining whether @Facebook adequately warned investors about its proclivities for sharing customer data with third parties.

Wall Street Journal story is here.

#LegalizePrivacy #Privacy

New Grant Thornton Thought Leadership – Mandatory Initial Discovery Protocol

I’m proud to have contributed (with my Grant Thornton LLP colleagues Lucas Newcomer and David Aberman) to an overview of the the #MIDP eDiscovery protocols being piloted by the Judicial Conference of the United States…

https://sb.gl/2rDs93T

Resilience: The best strategy for cyber threats…

It is now axiomatic that data breaches have become a function of “when, not if”. At long last, organizations are increasingly cognizant of this fact. In Grant Thornton’s 2017 Corporate General Counsel Survey, 72% of respondents cite cyber threats as their most significant source of risk. Cyber risk is significant, and it’s changing.

Read the full piece here.