Category: Defend

Third-Party Risk Management for a Crypto-Ready Financial Sector

January 22, 2026

Financial services firms today face the challenge of balancing opportunity and innovation with the security controls and oversight necessary to maintain consumer and stakeholder trust, while building cybersecurity resilience and mitigating financial crime in an evolving threat landscape.

How To Build Board Cyber Resilience

December 9, 2025

In this Board Agenda article, Jordan Rae Kelly, Head of Americas Cybersecurity, and David Dunn, Head of EMEA & APAC Cybersecurity, share the importance of putting in place incident response plans before the worst happens.

Threat Actors See Bigger Return for Smaller Devices

November 4, 2025

Mobile devices have become indispensable to modern life. Managing Director David Youssef discusses how this ubiquity has made them high-value targets for threat actors motivated by political, financial or strategic objectives.

Protecting National Security [VIDEO]

February 7, 2025

In this video, Head of National Security Mike Driscoll explains that as the world becomes increasingly digital and connected, defending the U.S. must be a joint responsibility.

Responding to Business Email Compromise [VIDEO]

January 29, 2025

If an organization is impacted by a business email compromise (BEC), time is of the essence. In this video, Senior Managing Director Mike Driscoll shares proactive steps organizations can take to mitigate these risks.

Push Payment Fraud Increasing

May 6, 2024

Senior Managing Director Mike Driscoll spoke with WJAR-TV about push payment apps and what consumers can do to protect themselves.

Business Continuity Planning for Times of Crisis

February 21, 2024

Head of Cybersecurity for EMEA and APAC, David Dunn, discusses the fundamentals of business continuity, and what steps organizations in Germany should take to protect their business from disaster.

Former FBI Agent Sounds Alarm on Cyber Security

August 7, 2019

Anthony J. Ferrante, Global Head of Cybersecurity, recently sat down with Fordham News to discuss the inception of the International Conference on Cyber Security and his participation at the 2019 event.

60 Minutes – Ground Zero in Russia’s Hack of U.S. Election Infrastructure

April 8, 2018

On Sunday, April 8, 2018, FTI Consulting’s Global Head of Cybersecurity, Anthony J. Ferrante, appeared on the 60 Minutes segment “Ground Zero in Russia’s Hack of U.S. Election Infrastructure.” As a former Director of Cyber Incident Response on the National Security Council, Anthony discussed election security and lessons learned from Russia’s cyberattack against state voting systems during the 2016 presidential election.

Are Dockless Bikes a Cybersecurity Threat?

February 16, 2018

FTI Cybersecurity’s Anthony J. Ferrante discusses the potential security risks associated with dockless bike services based on the financial and mobility data that such services collect in this CityLab article.

Cyberspace Triggers a New Kind of Arms Race

February 1, 2018

FTI Cybersecurity’s Anthony J. Ferrante discusses how the internet is fueling the cyber arms race, allowing malicious cyber actors to deliver weaponized tools at an unprecedented scope and scale in this article featured in Signal Magazine.

A Look Into the Crystal Ball: Cybersecurity Predictions for 2018

December 27, 2017

In this article, FTI’s Head of Cybersecurity comments on cyberspace becoming the new battlefield for modern warfare, the rise in malicious state-sponsored activity, the exploitation of information as a weapon for financial, political and other gain, and urges cybersecurity professionals to be prepared to stay ahead of malicious actors.

China’s Ghost in Europe’s Telecom Machine

December 11, 2017

In this POLITICO EU article which discusses the growing security worries derailing the Chinese tech giant, Huawei’s 5G ambitions, FTI’s Head of Cybersecurity comments on the infrastructure of which data flows, government decisions to use Huawei products, and the risks these governments are willing to take.

The European Union’s Strategy to Face Cyber Threats

December 7, 2017

In this article, FTI’s Alejandro Sánchez discusses the EC’s strategy and its opportunity to improve cybersecurity preparedness, response and recovery throughout the EU to ensure the security of their increasingly digitized society and, therefore, of the digital single market.

Building an Intelligence-Led Cyber Program

December 6, 2017

This webinar covers how to build a proactive program by mapping out the risk landscape and requirements early; how to lead and drive the process, who to involve and what to include; knowing what to prioritize; conducting a vulnerability assessment and identifying your organization’s critical assets; and offers practical tips for making malicious actors’ jobs harder.

Cyberwar is our era’s Cuban missile crisis. We need to de-escalate, now.

November 24, 2017

Our global landscape has become increasingly digitized, and this increased cyberconnectivity is changing the nature of the threats we face, posing serious implications for our national security. In this Yahoo article, FTI Consulting’s Global Head of Cybersecurity discusses the similarities between cyber and nuclear weapons and how these attacks are capable of imposing catastrophic consequences […]

Vulnerability Management: A Holistic View

October 30, 2017

In this article, Anthony J. Ferrante, FTI Consulting’s Global Head of Cybersecurity discusses some of this year’s biggest cybersecurity incidents and his thoughts on current and emerging federal policy and legislation around how cybersecurity vulnerabilities are handled through the government’s Vulnerabilities Equities Process (VEP). Learn More >

How Financial Services Companies Can Win the Fight for Cybersecurity

September 28, 2017

The potential financial impact of a global cyber attack today is on par with that of major natural disasters. Financial institutions have historically been targets of cyber criminal actors looking to steal money, client information and proprietary company data. These attacks have typically targeted customers, but alarmingly, since 2016, there has been an increase in campaigns aimed at breaching financial institutions directly.

Cybersecurity Expertise: From the White House to the C-Suite

September 9, 2017

Anthony J. Ferrante, FTI Consulting’s Global Head of Cybersecurity addresses the growing cybersecurity threats affecting U.S. businesses today.  As the former Director for Cyber Incident Response at the U.S. National Security Council and the former Chief of Staff of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division, Anthony J. Ferrante has seen cyber risk evolve from […]

Battening Down for the Rising Tide of IoT Risks

August 22, 2017

This article discusses how IoT has evolved over the last two decades and the security risks that have emerged as a result. It will include a discussion of the key problems with IoT development and regulation, and the most pressing challenges security professionals need to consider when developing programs that include IoT security. The article also shares proactive steps organizations can take to establish or strengthen these programs.

Data Breach Prevention and Information Governance Go Hand-In-Hand

October 30, 2016

Information governance (IG) has a wide range of varying definitions, depending on whom you ask. Some consider it to be an amorphous collection of policies that are difficult to translate into the real world. Others view it as a holistic strategy document, or a series of discrete, tactical projects that implement best practices in data […]