Tracy Wilkison is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Cybersecurity practice and is based in Los Angeles. Ms. Wilkison has more than 20 years of cybersecurity, national security, litigation, and consulting experience. She advises clients on their most complicated cybersecurity and data privacy challenges, from readiness and gap assessments to regulation, enforcement, incident response, and complex forensic investigations and litigation.
Ms. Wilkison leads complex domestic and international investigations, delivering critical solutions to her clients’ most urgent needs. She advises companies on strategies to strengthen their security and privacy programs and leads third-party assessments subject to regulator orders. She also provides expertise in coordinating the response to ransomware attacks, data breaches, and other sophisticated cyber threats.
Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Ms. Wilkison served as the United States Attorney at the United States Attorney’s Office of the Central District of California (USAO-CDCA), following a career of more than 22 years as an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA). As U.S. Attorney, Ms. Wilkison supervised many of the most significant cyber crime, public corruption, fraud, money laundering, and violent crime cases in the country. She developed office-wide policies, provided support and guidance in case-handling, and worked closely with federal judges and staff.
Ms. Wilkison held several other positions at the USAO-CDCA throughout her tenure, including in the Cyber and Intellectual Property unit, where she was responsible for the investigation and prosecution of computer-related crimes, such as unauthorized access of computers and extortion, as well as intellectual property crimes, including importing and selling counterfeit goods and the theft of trade secrets. She also served as a first-level responder to victim businesses to help coordinate with law enforcement and technical experts. With this experience, she frequently worked with companies to develop and exercise incident response plans and to educate their employees on best practices. She handled numerous complex international investigations and tried over ten cases to verdict, allowing her to well understand how to structure investigations for clients.
Ms. Wilkison received her Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School and is a licensed attorney in California. Prior to joining the USAO-CDCA, Ms. Wilkison worked as a litigation associate at Quinn Emanuel, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Franklin Van Antwerpen, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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