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Organizational Info
Shawn T. L. Acker
CIO, Principal Consultant
Information Risk Group LLC
E-mail: sacker@inforiskgroup.com
After working in the Information Security field for the past
10 years Shawn established Information Risk Group LLC in 2003.
The corporation now provides services to clients throughout the
Americas
in the following fields.
- Security Assessment
- GLBA Safeguard Assessments
- HIPPA Privacy and Safeguard Assessments
- Information Security Standard and Policy Reviews
- Customized Security Program Development / Risk Analysis
- Ethical Hacking - Network, System and/or application level
penetration testing
- Cybercrime
- Technical Investigations
- Forensic Analysis
of Networks and Systems
- Litigation support
- Incident Response to information security events.
- Training
- Ethical Hacking, Forensics, Incident Response
- Legal issues with respect to Electronic Discovery
Shawn T. L. Acker is an internationally recognized security
professional with experience in a wide variety of E-Business security
topics including the following: incident response plan development,
technical investigations, Internet security analysis, Internet presence
design with respect to firewall and intrusion detection systems,
biometrics, public key infrastructures, security policy and standards
development, penetration testing and network architecture analysis.
Having worked for one of the largest financial firms in the world,
Fidelity Investments, and the largest onsulting firm in the world,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, he has experienced both the consulting and
"real world" business side of IT security. Before leaving PwC, he was
focused on developing their worldwide cybercrime response group. In
this position he managed the development of incident response
methodologies and forensic practice aids. Shawn was PwC worldwide
subject matter expert on Cybercrime.
In December of 2002 Shawn Acker left PwC to become one of the founding
members of Information Risk Group LLC headquartered in Miramar, Florida.
Future
Speaking Engagements
- April 22-23, 2006, Search.org - Advanced Internet
Investigations – Topic: Firewalls and Intrusion
Detection
Recent Speaking Engagements
- Feb 21, 2002, NJ Information Systems
Audit and Control – Topic: Auditing Windows 2000
- April 30, 2002, ISI Forum on Info Security
in Government, Washington D.C. – Topic: Cybercrime
- June 18, 2002, NYSIA Security & Privacy
Rights SIG, New York City, NY – Topic: Cybercrime
- June 25, 2002, Vanguard’s 16th Annual
Security Expo 2002, Anaheim, CA – Topic: Windows XP
Security Overview
- July 23, 2002, II FORO INTERNACIONAL DE NEGOCIO
ELECTRONICO, Caracas, Venezuela –
Topic: Seguridad en e-Business (Security in E-Business)
- November 6, 2003, Symantec SecureXchange,
Washington
D.C. – Topic: Computer Forensics
- February 26, 2003, Information System Audit and
Control South Florida Chapter, Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Incident Response
and Computer Forensics
- March 2-3, 2006, Southeast Cybercrime
Summit, Atlanta, GA – GLBA:
Safeguarding Financial Institutions
Recent Projects
- Development of PwC worldwide Cybercrime Prevention and
Response group and development of incident response methodologies and
forensic practice aids
- Cyber Incident investigations for Fortune 500
companies. The incidents included issues such as, internal theft,
Internet hacking, intellectual property theft and copyright and
trademark violations.
- Performed SAS 70 and SAS 65 technical audits
- Technical security audits of Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP
and Novell Netware for Fortune 500 companies
- Technical audit of Firewall Infrastructure, Web monitoring
methodology and virus response plan for a fortune 500 insurance
company.
- Successful Attack and Penetration projects against
numerous Fortune 1000 companies.
- Security Controls audit of numerous hosting companies
using Windows NT and IIS.
Education
Masters of Business Administration, Suffolk University, 1999
Bachelors Degree, Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University. 1993
Offering Information Security and Risk Management services to
companies
throughout the Americas.
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