Navigating the Cybersecurity Storm: Leveraging Technology

Robert Listerman, CPA

Bob is a licensed Certified Public Accountant, State of Michigan and has over 35 years of experience as a process improvement business consultant. He graduated from Michigan State University and became a CPA while employed at Touche Ross & Co., Detroit, now known as a member firm of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP. He is the Founder and President of Business Technology Resources, LLC doing business as BTR-Security.

Bob serves his professional community as a member of Pennsylvania Institue of Certified Public Accountants where he serves on the Information Technology Assurance Committee as its Sub-committee Chair for IT Assurance Continuing Professional Education. He is also past President and active Board Member for the Institute of Management Accountants Mid Atlantic Council. Bob serves the community as an active Rotarian.

John McLaughlin, CPA, CRMA

John McLaughlin is a partner in Marcum's Philadelphia office and a member of the Firm's Assurance Services division. He came to Marcum in 2015 via the Firm's merger with Smart Devine, a leading full-service accounting firm in Philadelphia.

Mr. McLaughlin has more than 25 years of public accounting and private industry experience and has served a broad range of clients primarily in the consumer products, financial services, distribution, life sciences, technology, retail, energy, and healthcare industries.

He joined Smart Devine in 2014, having previously worked at a national accounting firm providing assurance, advisory and consulting services to both publicly traded and privately held companies. There, he was responsible for risk, governance and control engagements assisting clients with risk management, IT and financial auditing, enterprise risk management (ERM) program development, SOC 1 & SOC 2 examinations, internal audit strategy, developing and monitoring programs to measure compliance with laws and regulations, and evaluating and improving operational efficiency and effectiveness.

His previous experience included serving as an IT and internal audit services director for a "Big 4" accounting & consulting firm, and as a corporate finance and internal audit director for a multi-billion dollar, multi-national services company. Mr. McLaughlin's responsibilities in these capacities included evaluating financial reporting compliance and compliance with laws and regulations, coordinating integrated business process reviews, and directing acquisition and divestiture due diligence activities. Earlier in his career, John was an assistant corporate controller for a national real estate developer and started his career with two "Big 8" accounting firms.

John is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Mercy Health System Audit and Finance Committees. He also serves on the Institute of Internal Auditors International Committee of Research and Educations Advisors. He has written several articles in an industry group newsletter and has been quoted in a number of national publications on the topics of enterprise risk, internal auditing and Sarbanes-Oxley.

Lee M. Zeichner
President

Lee M. Zeichner is the Founder and President of Zeichner Risk Analytics LLC. Since his service as senior counsel to the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection from 1996-1998, he has led development of cybersecurity policy and operations for both leading public and private sector clients. Mr. Zeichner has published extensively on multiple aspects of cybersecurity law and is the author of Cyber Security & Corporate Liability, a guide for corporate counsel on cybersecurity and risk management, published by LexisNexis Publishing in 2001. Mr. Zeichner is authoring his sixth update of the book, scheduled for release in 2014.

Mr. Zeichner currently consults on cybersecurity issues for the Department of Homeland Security, and has performed multiple risk assessments, including a review of the Executive Office of the President and other Federal Departments. He has served as Security Counsel for the Business Roundtable's Information and Technology Committee since 2001 and promotes cybersecurity as a member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security, where he has served since 1998.

Mr. Zeichner is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. He graduated from the University of Florida (Phi Beta Kappa) and received his M.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University. Mr. Zeichner is a member of multiple bar associations, including the Florida and DC Bars, the Court of International Trade, and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr. Zeichner speaks Mandarin Chinese.

Paul Borchardt
IronGate Cyber Risk, LLC

Paul has thirty years’ experience in Information Technology, with twenty years directly in Information Security. He has successfully build and lead Information Security and Risk Management functions in fast-paced, highly regulated, highly audited, multi-client environments. Comfortable in both the board room and the datacenter, Paul brings a strong technical background and an exceptional business sense that combined, deliver balanced results addressing business requirements, regulatory demands, and risk mitigation.

Paul is the owner and principal of IronGate Cyber Risk, LLC. Founded in October 2015, IronGate provides interim and part-time CISO services, cyber advisory services, and Information Security education and awareness training.

Previously, Paul provided information security consulting services to clients in the financial services, life sciences, and telecommunications/media segments, most recently as a Senior Manager with Deloitte and Touché and before its acquisition by Deloitte in 2013, as a Vice President with Vigilant LLC. His activities have included C-suite/boardroom education and advisory, threat profiling, risk assessments, program/technology assessments, strategic planning, governance models, and operating models.

Prior to consulting, Paul was the Americas Chief Information Security Officer with BNP Paribas. Responsible for the Corporate and Investment Banking, Asset Management, and Security Services business lines of this global financial leader. Paul’s skills and diplomacy were paramount to bringing cost-effective, risk appropriate solutions that balanced the competing demands of protecting the Bank’s assets while facilitating business and technical innovation. Paul was hired to establish the Information Security organization and successfully built the function from the ground-up into one recognized as “Best of Breed” and emulated throughout the Bank.

Prior to his CISO role, Paul was Head of Networks and Information Security for CooperNeff Advisors (a BNP Paribas subsidiary) where he developed security strategies to protect intellectual property and trade secrets from internal and external threats. Additionally, he managed the global networking team and successfully proposed, developed, built the disaster recovery/resiliency program. Paul’s professional career began at Villanova University where, he provided Systems and Network Engineering design and support across multiple platforms and architectures.

Paul holds a Master of Science and a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Villanova University and maintains a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) Certification.

John J. Jablonski is a partner in Goldberg Segalla’s New York and Buffalo offices, where he serves as chair of the firm’s Cyber Risk and Information Governance Practice Groups.  He is a frequent presenter and author on data security and privacy.  He is the author of 7 Steps for Litigation Holds of ESI and Other Documents (ARMA 2009).  John focuses his practice on counselling client on information governance, data security and privacy including policies, procedures, assessments, opinions, IT governance.  He drafts contract terms, security and privacy addendums and negotiates technology contracts and advises clients on responding to regulatory and third-party security and privacy audits.

Robert Risk, MSCIS

Bob has 35 years of IT leadership experience. For the past 15 years he has worked in the CPA industry working as the IT Director/CIO for Amper, Politziner and Mattia and then as the CTO for EisnerAmper. Bob has demonstrated success leading and transforming growth oriented organizations. Bob has a track record of strategic business decisions, system implementations and aligning Information Technology with organizational goals enabling immediate savings with long term profitable growth. He takes pride in being an agent of change with diverse expertise and a history of delivering high impact projects providing exceptional business value.

Bob is currently the Director of Technology Advisory Services at Wiss & Company, LLP. Bob assists a wide variety of Wiss’s client with Strategic Planning, Cloud Migration, Business Process Reviews, IT Assessments, Security Planning, IT Governance, System selection and implementations.