Ed Hopkins is a Senior Director in the Cybersecurity practice at FTI Consulting, based in Sydney, Australia. He has more than seven years of experience providing high impact cybersecurity assessments and incident response services to large organisations, ranging from strategic advising to deeply technical engagements. Mr. Hopkins has assisted clients across a range of industries, including financial services, critical infrastructure, healthcare, and government.
At FTI Consulting, Mr. Hopkins specialises in assessing the cyber readiness of organisations using a broad array of methodologies, including cybersecurity program reviews, maturity assessments, penetration testing, and red teaming exercises. He has extensive experience in advising organisations on uplifting their capabilities and implementing security controls across their people, processes, and technology to achieve maximum risk reduction.
Mr. Hopkins also assists with complex incident response (IR) engagements, including network intrusions, ransomware attacks and major data breaches. During these engagements, he advises on containment and eradication actions, conducts post-incident forensic investigations, and provides recommendations to strengthen failed controls. He has also negotiated with ransomware threat actors, achieving successful outcomes for the victim organisation.
Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Hopkins worked for a Big Four professional services firm, leading small teams of cybersecurity consultants to deliver high impact technical assessments, including application and network penetration testing, red teaming, vulnerability assessments, social engineering exercises, security configuration reviews, security architecture reviews, and operational technology (OT) security assessments.
Mr. Hopkins holds a number of technical cybersecurity certifications, including OSCP, OSEP, OSWP, CRTP, and CARTP. He holds a Bachelor of Information Systems (Co-op) (Honours) from the University of New South Wales.
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