The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other regulators are committed to protecting investors and ensuring their investments are protected from cyber-attacks. This includes public and private investments managed by institutions and Private Equity Firms.
As damages from cybercrime are projected to reach $6 trillion in 2021 and rise all the way to an astounding $10.5 trillion (annually) by 2025, it is important for businesses to maintain and continue the fortification and development of their cybersecurity posture. As markets and industries continue to experience global growth, so too are the ever-present threats from cyber criminals.
Please watch HKA’s lead Cybersecurity Partner, Michael Corcione and our panelists as they share their valuable knowledge on the SEC’s stance and expectations for cybersecurity programs and their compliance, along with exams priorities and methods.
Panelists:
Michael Corcione is the lead Partner of HKA’s Cybersecurity & Privacy practice. He has over 30 years of professional experience in advisory services. Michael advises firms and Boards on cybersecurity and privacy strategy, and leads cyber and information security engagement teams. He also provides advisement on regulatory enforcement matters related to cyber and information security, and appropriate remediation. Michael has led client engagements performing cybersecurity business and IT risk assessments, evaluating cyber threat identification, incident response readiness and testing, IT infrastructure implementations, regulatory compliance, vendor and third-party due diligence, and strategy. He has worked with clients from all verticals, including; government contracting, financial services, asset management including private equity, hedge funds, venture capital, real estate, construction, and insurance. Prior to joining HKA, Michael was a Managing Director and led the Cybersecurity and Privacy Advisory Practices at Treliant, and Cordium Consulting, and also a Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers’s (PwC) where he led cybersecurity and privacy engagements as part of the Financial Crimes Unit.
Christopher Hetner is a Strategic Advisor to HKA and the former Senior Cybersecurity Advisor to the Chair and Head of Cybersecurity for the Office of Compliance Inspections at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He also served as the Chair of the SEC as a senior member of the US Department of the Treasury Financial Banking Information Infrastructure Committee. Christopher has led efforts across financial, regulatory, and government agencies to enhance Cybersecurity coordination in the financial services sector, as well as establishing governance and risk management structures that align with strategy and business objectives. His professional judgment combined with a public company perspective and SEC regulatory and investor oversight experience has led to his success in corporate and government roles.
Christopher Bender is the President of Northcross Group, in Portland, Maine. Christopher Bender has accumulated over twenty-two years of management and technology consulting experience, specializing in efficiency, profits, agility, and corporate responsibility in both the public and private sectors. As the founder of NCG, he has built a team of experts that unite business and technology to deliver results and value. Christopher worked with mainframe and midtier computing until he transitioned to internet-based technology in the early 1990s at which point he began to focus on data-driven systems and decision-making. He has executed project management efforts in excess of $30 million per year and mergers and integrations as large as $40 billion per year. Additionally, he has served as the lead architect for multiple enterprise-level system developments.
Igor Rozenblit is a Managing Partner at Iron Road Partners and the former Co-Head of the SEC’s Private Funds Unit. During his time at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Igor utilized his expertise in financial regulation to shape the commission’s regulatory approach to the private capital market. He completed and supervised more than 250 examinations and dozens of enforcement investigations resulting in many seminal enforcement actions. With Iron Road Partners, Igor focuses on helping clients successfully navigate a broad range of challenges stemming from regulatory examinations, investigations, litigation, disputes, and other crisis scenarios.
