BV540 Cyber Threat Landscape in 2024: Frontline Insights and Recommendations

Jason Smolanoff is President of Kroll’s Cyber Risk business, based in the Los Angeles office. Since joining Kroll in 2017, Jason has led the practice through transformative growth into a highly diversified, global organization that today provides clients with seamless, end-to-end cyber risk management services. Under his leadership, individual Cyber service lines have significantly expanded the depth and breadth of services available to Kroll clients, to include Strategy and Risk Consulting, Managed Services, Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, Crisis Communications, Litigation Support, and Notification.

Nicole Sette is Chief of Staff in the Cyber Risk business of Kroll, based in the Secaucus office. Nicole is a highly accomplished security professional, who brings unique insight to the multiple dimensions inherent in client challenges from her years of federal law enforcement and military experience. Nicole served as a Cyber Intelligence Analyst with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 10 years, and was an Intelligence Specialist with the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command for four years.

Christopher White is a senior vice president in the Cyber Risk business, based in Boston. Chris leverages more than 18 years of experience in security, intelligence, and crisis and reputational management, and he has an extensive background in managing crisis communications around cybersecurity and data privacy incidents.

Prior to joining Kroll, Chris served as a director in the Cybersecurity practice at the Brunswick Group, a crisis management firm, where he counseled clients on preparing for and responding to cybersecurity incidents. Before that, he served as a spokesperson and intelligence analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where he managed crisis communications and media relations, as well as assessed geopolitical risk for the Bush and Obama administrations. After leaving the CIA, Chris served as the Deputy Director of D.C.’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency (HSEMA), where he helped lead disaster preparedness, response and recovery efforts for the city of Washington, D.C., including the coronavirus pandemic, as well as hundreds of First Amendment demonstrations and National Security Special Events such as the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, presidential inaugurations, State of the Union addresses and July 4th celebrations on the National Mall.

Cameron Malin, JD, CISSP, is a Behavioral Profiler and former Supervisory Special Agent/Behavioral Profiler with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), specializing in the assessment of cyber threat actor decision making, adversary tradecraft, cyber deception and cognitive vulnerabilities. He has over twenty-two years of experience investigating, analyzing and profiling cyber adversaries across the spectrum of criminal to national security attacks. During his tenure in the FBI, he was the founder of both the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit’s (BAU) Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center (CBAC), the FBI BAU's methodology and application of science-based behavioral profiling and assessment to national security and criminal cyber offenders—and the BAU’s Deception and Influence Group (DIG), a uniquely trained and experienced cadre of Behavioral Profilers specialized in analyses and countermeasures to adversary cyber deception campaigns and influence operations.

He is a co-author of the authoritative cyber deception book, Deception in the Digital Age: Exploiting and Defending Human Targets Through Computer-Mediated Communications (published by Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc.) and co-author of the Malware Forensics book series: Malware Forensics: Investigating and Analyzing Malicious Code, Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems, and Malware. Forensics Field Guide for Linux Systems (all published by Syngress, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc.).