DIGITAL ASSURANCE - Key Persons
Brian Kunick brings over 25 years of experience maturing client environments ranging from new business startups to multi-billion dollar enterprises. From new business entries to complex and highly-regulated entities, Brian has provided practical and effective solutions aligning fully with business and regulatory requirements.
Prior to focusing on Information Technology (IT) operations, security, privacy and governance/risk/compliance (GRC), Brian served as the Chief Financial Officer of businesses in the retail, non-property/casualty insurance, business consulting and transportation industries. In doing so, Brian lead his teams to not only serve the financial operations, but to transform IT into a valued business partner of the organization's operational segments including human resources, production, logistics, legal and executive functions thereby enabling success of the total operation.
Brian's collective experience in both Technology and Finance roles enable him to visualize complex scenarios affecting the business. Accordingly, he is able to define cost effective solutions which are meaningfully aligned with the business. Some recent areas of contribution include complex Ransomware environment prevention and readiness, compliance readiness, establishment of Enterprise level GRC, security program charters and deployment, risk management of associated parties and effective security awareness programs.
Chris is a West Point graduate, internationally renowned combat leader, retired Army Colonel, published author, and business leader who brings his passion and unique background to a mission that is personal and close to his heart -- working with organizations that help to protect and empower those who are not in a position to protect and empower themselves. As a sexual assault survivor, he brings humility, compassion and deeper meaning to the timeless habits of Leadership, Culture, and Strategy.
The author of the critically acclaimed book, Leadership: The Warrior's Art -- which has sold over 50,000 copies, Chris draws from a storied military career (see CNN Jake Tapper's bestselling book, The Outpost) and extensive practice and scholarship, to help leaders and teams create and maintain a durable competitive advantage. He has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
Job Titles:
- Cybersecurity Solutions Advisor
Job Titles:
- Solutions Advisor
- Solutions Advisor Digital Assurance Advisors LLC
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Advisor Digital Assurance Advisors LLC
- Expert in the Field of Risk
Greg Duckert is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Risk and Enterprise Risk Management.
He is the author of "Data-Centric ERM: Common Sense That Isn't Very Common". He holds 9 professional certifications and an MBA. Mr. Duckert was educated at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and obtained an MBA in Accounting, a BBA in Accounting, and a BA in Economics. He has formed and presented over 30 seminars and conducts a variety of them currently with MIS Training Institute where he is Senior Consultant. He is also a frequent speaker at national and international conferences.
Greg consults with major organizations regarding progressive data centric ERM models designed to make ERM a profit and not a cost center. He also consults with audit departments in building continuous and continual audit / consulting platforms. Mr. Duckert is the sole developer and owner of a proprietary approach to risk assessment and management that is applied to organizations of all sizes. He worked closely with the General Director - Global Automotive Audit & International Dealer Audit and the General Auditor and Chief Risk Officer of General Motors Corporation in transitioning the GM audit shop to his proprietary audit approach known as ORCA™ (Outcome-Risk Centric Auditing). When implemented it resulted in savings of over $40 million in the first 8 months of operation.
Greg is currently under contract with a major multi-billion $ organization to build an ERM data centric model using his proprietary approaches. In addition, he also performs in depth, hands on consulting in the areas of operational analysis and process improvement methodologies. He has developed extensive risk assessment metric inventories for evaluating risks in all organizational areas including operations, IT, regulatory and financial areas which are marketed through Virtual Governance Institute.
Mr. Duckert has addressed the Permanent Undersecretary for Military Affairs of Parliament and the Defense Audit Board of the Ministry of Defense - United Kingdom on the subject matter of creating a risk-based business approach to governmental audit oversight. He has been engaged in the professional practice of Internal Auditing, Risk Assessment and Management for over 40 years. He founded the Internal Audit function of a Fortune 500 corporation at the age of 26 and built the audit department from non-existence into a highly competent Financial, Operational, Information Technology and Regulatory audit body. He was also the General Auditor and Chief Audit Executive at two other major organizations, in the Manufacturing and Health Care industries. His expertise in data-centric Risk Assessment and Management spans virtually all key industry types.
Job Titles:
- Enterprise Risk Management
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Solutions Advisor Digital Assurance Advisors LLC
Rick has recently stepped down as the Chief Security Officer (CSO) for Palo Alto Networks where he acted as an advisor to the company's internal security program, built from scratch and lead the Palo Alto Networks Threat Intelligence Team (Unit 42), directed the company's efforts on the Cyber Threat Alliance Information Sharing Group, invented and ran the Cybersecurity Canon Project, and provided thought leadership for the company and the cybersecurity community at large.
His prior jobs include the TASC CISO, the iDefense GM (A commercial threat intelligence service at Verisign,) the Counterpane Global SOC Director, and the Commander of the U.S. Army's Computer Emergency Response Team where he coordinated network defense, network intelligence and network attack operations for the Army's global network.
Rick holds a Master of Computer Science degree from the Naval Postgraduate School and an engineering degree from the US Military Academy. He also taught computer science at the Academy from 1993 to 1999. He has published many academic papers on technology, security, and risk and has contributed as an executive editor to two books: "Cyber Fraud: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures" and "Cyber Security Essentials."