One on One with CohnReznick's Shahryar Shaghaghi

As new technologies emerge and cyberattackers become more sophisticated, protecting digital assets and critical data has become a central focus of many organizations, but there is still much work to be done. Clients are turning to consulting firms with cybersecurity expertise more and more for help eliminating vulnerabilities. Consulting sat down with CohnReznick's Shahryar Shaghaghi, Lead, Cybersecurity Advisory, to talk about the evolving cybersecurity landscape.

Consulting: What are your plans for leading CohnReznick's cybersecurity practice?

Shaghaghi: It's not that this practice doesn't exist yet today, in fact they've had a good run in terms of offering cybersecurity and technology risk to the marketplace as we speak. This group has been involved in some of the largest and most important cyberattacks and cyber breaches, both from a reactive and forensics investigation service as well as proactive advisory. My role is to really come in and grow this practice substantially and help drive a number of services our clients are in need of. Our clients span from lower mid-market, where most of them today don't have much as it relates to basic controls around cybersecurity, to sophisticated, well-established clients in that space. I have some thoughts to bring some additional services into this area. Today we're already pretty deep in performing various types of security assessments and penetration testing, services around vulnerability assessments and ultimately helping clients close some of their gaps. I also want to look at our industries and some of our services on the digital transformation side. There's a lot of cyber play in all those areas.