Cyber Shield | Overcoming Blind Spots in Private Equity Cybercrime Prevention

Join EisnerAmper for an insightful and engaging webinar: Cyber Shield: Overcoming Blind Spots in Private Equity Cybercrime Prevention, taking place on Thursday, December 9 from noon to 1 p.m. (EST). Patrick Westerhaus, partner, and Scott Wright, managing director, from the EisnerAmper Cyber Risk Services team will take a close look at the evolving landscape of cybercrime, with a focused discussion on the specific threats facing all firms, their portfolio companies, their team members, and customers. The course is eligible for one CPE credit in Specialized Knowledge.

With nearly 25 years of experience, Patrick provides investigative, consulting, and litigation support to clients facing cyber risk, fraud, financial crime, national security, and regulatory scrutiny. Patrick's experience spans the FBI, where he led high-profile investigations into corporate and government fraud, anti-money laundering, public corruption, counterterrorism, espionage, and cyber fraud. He built the Cyber Crime Intelligence Unit for a top five financial institution, founded a technology company, and built consulting practices. Scott has nearly four decades of experience in the federal government and private industry. He helps organizations navigate complex geopolitical and security challenges, providing strategic guidance on countering cyber fraud risk and remediation, insider risk programs, advanced due diligence/KYC/KYE, supply chain security, and crisis management. Scott served in the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations (DO) for more than three decades, including as the third in command in the DO’s C-suite.

Learning Objectives:

• Together, we’ll uncover common blind spots and explore practical, actionable strategies to reduce risk to firms and across portfolios, especially against schemes driven by social engineering, data breaches, and deceptive online seller platforms.

Learning Outcomes

• Participants will leave with a sharper awareness of cyber fraud tactics.
• Participants will receive a toolkit of individual risk-reduction techniques to help safeguard themselves, their firms, and their clients.

1.0 CPE credit in Specialized Knowledge