How Cyber Criminals are Targeting Executive Women and What You Can Do to Stop It

This presentation includes details on how threat actors are currently targeting women executives along with tips for personal and corporate cybersecurity.  AI Deep Fakes, Wire Fraud and Ransomware attacks are discussed as well as personal home and phone security recommendations.

Heather Hughes, J.D. is a Vice President for Stroz Friedberg's Houston office where she leads a wide variety of engagements, including data breach, ransomware and other incident response matters, complex digital forensics investigations, proactive security risk assessments, and cyber due diligence investigations.  Heather has over 25 years’ experience in privacy and data security and she has led and managed some of the firm's most complex incident response engagements, including the largest healthcare ransomware event in U.S. history which was perpetrated by threat actors during the COVID pandemic.

Heather regularly works with outside counsel to assist clients with regulatory inquiries as a result of the theft of data by both departed employees and organized cyber criminals.