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Meet the Ankura InterXeptor Operations Team

eXpert Led and Ready to Partner With You

Experience matters. For more than a decade, we’ve been a trusted full-service cybersecurity risk advisor, partner, and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider to growing organizations. Ankura InterXeptor provides growing middle market companies unparalleled access to industry best practices and thinking, exactly when and where you need it most.

About the Ankura InterXeptor Team

  • Ankura InterXeptor is an MDR partner,

    not just a provider. Ankura InterXeptor clients have real-time, priority access to Ankura’s diverse team of cybersecurity, privacy and data risk experts and advisors.

  • Our global team of 175+ cybersecurity professionals

    have advised a wide range of growing organizations on incident response, MDR, privacy, and cyber risk.

  • We provide continuous 24/7 threat detection

    fed by real-time threat intelligence. Plus, our incident response experts are available at all times to immediately contain and suppress an attack.

  • We leverage Ankura’s business advisory expertise

    to provide comprehensive solutions for related issues including data analytics and privacy, fraud, compliance, and litigation support.

  • Our CTIX FLASH Update

    provides timely and relevant global threat intelligence to each client’s security team on a semi-weekly basis.

Supporting the Future of Cybersecurity

Ankura’s Brooklyn Cyber Center aims to address two perennial challenges in the cybersecurity industry: the severe talent shortage in the sector, which has made it difficult for organizations to fill open security positions with qualified staff, and a historic lack of diversity in the information security profession. Our experts are training the next generation of cybersecurity professionals while promoting diversity in the industry.

 

Ankura InterXeptor Leadership

Robert Olsen

Robert Olsen

Senior Managing Director
Global Head, Cybersecurity and Privacy

Robert Olsen is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura, based in Baltimore. He is the Global Head, Cybersecurity and Privacy and has over 25 years of experience developing, implementing, and managing complex cybersecurity and information technology enterprise risk management programs. Bob has served as a chief information officer and chief information security officer for clients across a diverse set of industries and organizational sizes. He is a leader in the provision of reactive, data analytics, and proactive cybersecurity services to government, private industry, and not-for-profit clients. Bob is also a serial entrepreneur and adjunct professor, cybersecurity at Johns Hopkins University.

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Meet the Ankura InterXeptor Team

Jamar Haywood

Jamar Haywood

Senior Managing Director
Cybersecurity and Privacy

Jamar Haywood is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura, based in New York. He has over 20 years of both professional and strategic expertise in the legal and technology field. He has re-engineered and rebranded departments, developed optimal workflows, revised technical protocols, and helped clients control legal spend by leveraging technology. Jamar has extensive experience in providing custom-tailored technical and strategic solutions to meet individual client needs. Jamar has worked at numerous Am Law 100 Law firms, including Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Wilkie Farr & Gallagher, and Sullivan & Cromwell.

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Megan McMahon

Megan McMahon

Senior Director
Cybersecurity and Privacy

Megan McMahon is a Senior Director at Ankura, based in New York. She is an experienced attorney and consultant focused on end-to-end data protection solutions and strategies including privacy and cybersecurity consulting, managed detection and response (MDR), and incident response. In her role, Megan works to bridge the gap between various cross-functional business stakeholders to define, analyze, design, and implement comprehensive data protection solutions with minimal disruption to the business. Within MDR, Megan regularly works with clients to optimize and orchestrate their existing security stack, supplementing with advanced technology to streamline the detection and response process. Megan has experience managing large-scale third-party risk management engagements helping clients identify and rank the risk associated with vendors with access to sensitive information. She also has experience managing GDPR, CCPA, and general compliance engagements for a variety of large, multinational clients, focusing on the interplay between stakeholders in legal, compliance, IT, and security.

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Numan Ahmad

Director
Cybersecurity and Privacy

Numan Ahmad is a Director at Ankura based in New York. He leads Ankura’s CATCH (Compromise and Advanced Threat Containment Handling) team, which provides Endpoint, Cloud SaaS monitoring, and active threat hunting to detect and contain threats and compromises. The CATCH team responds to a broad array of matters including emerging ransomware tactics and sophisticated cyber attacks.

Davis Dodd

Davis Dodd

Director
Cybersecurity and Privacy

Davis Dodd is a Director at Ankura based out of New York with more than six years of experience in cybersecurity. He leads the Security Operations Center (SOC) team for the 24/7 Managed Detection and Response group, which conducts security monitoring for global clients spanning diverse industries including financial, legal, manufacturing, and transportation, amongst others.

Cesar Cobena

Cesar Cobena

Director
Cybersecurity and Privacy

Cesar Cobena is a Director at Ankura based out of Baltimore. He has over 13 years of experience in the cybersecurity, information security, network defense, threat hunting, and incident response fields. Cesar serves as Deputy Director and technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) to the Compromise and Advanced Threat Containment Handling (CATCH) team, which conducts endpoint security monitoring.

Cesar currently investigates cybersecurity related incidents and conducts endpoint monitoring as part of the cybersecurity and incident response team. He has co-led multiple proactive and reactive engagements for clients in diverse industries such as healthcare, financial, education, and government. He has experience managing all aspects of program development and has created several standard operation procedures (SOP) to train and develop new threat hunting engineers.

 

Ankura’s Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Solutions

We’ve assembled the leading minds in cybersecurity and data privacy to create a full-service suite of intelligent information security solutions and provide the expertise and skills our clients need at critical moments. Our global team includes leaders with extensive experience as members of the intelligence community, law enforcement personnel and federal agents, digital forensic specialists, and founders of pioneering cyber technology firms. Our experts have handled some of the largest and most sensitive cybersecurity incidents and regularly advise leading organizations on their data privacy policies.

Protect, Create and Recover Value

Our solutions Protect, Create, and Recover Value for our clients by defending them from breaches, building their internal capabilities and processes, and responding swiftly to threats or attacks.
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Cyber Incident Response, Intelligence & Investigations

We respond to over 500 data breaches annually and are actively monitoring threats in more than 45 countries as well as 18 global ransomware or extortion groups.

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Managed Data Protection Services

We provide on-demand, 24/7 support across a range of security domains—from advanced threat detection to intelligent data analytics. We become an extension of your team and provide you with the right people leveraging the right tools at the right time to address a specific need or respond to a security event or incident.

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Data Privacy & Cyber Risk Advisory

We’ve performed more than 300 cybersecurity assessments for global clients and tested more than 200 client security programs for effectiveness and the ability to defend critical data assets. We’ve also implemented more than 100 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) programs in 40 countries and performed more than 5,000 privacy impact assessments.

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Our two-minute Risk Assessment can help you determine how prepared your organization is to repel a cyberattack.  Complete your risk profile now and have the answers you need immediately. 

Recognizing cyber threats that can compromise your organization and addressing those security gaps is critical to protecting your firm’s infrastructure. Mitigating your risk can be the difference between a highly manageable, isolated cybersecurity incident and a data breach causing a major disruption that paralyzes your organization for days.

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