Kris McConkey

Cyber Threat Operations Lead Partner at PwC

Speaker

Kris leads PwC'sCyber Threat Detection and Response team which comprises of highly specialised cyber security professionals. He is responsible for the delivery of their cyber threat response capabilities which enables clients to resist, detect and respond to advanced cyber attacks. Focusing on cyber crime, espionage investigations and technical countermeasures, his team is regularly called on to investigate and contain network intrusions and provide actionable threat intelligence to clients in crisis situations.

Since joining PwC, Kris has led complex and multinational civil and criminal investigations that require advanced digital forensics and data mining. He also has a strong background working closely with legal counsel on strategies for data retention, collection, analysis and disclosure on a number of high profile regulatory compliance investigations involving both structured and unstructured data. Kris has a wealth of experience in malware reverse engineering and secure systems and network architecture design.