Cybersecurity litigation and case consulting, expert support, incident and regulatory response at direction of counsel, defensibility assessments

Who this serves: law firms, general counsel, boards and special committees, and their clients in matters where technology, security, and investigative fact patterns decide outcomes. Foundation: three decades of FBI investigative and executive experience, partner-level consulting leadership, and operating accountability as a global CISO of a publicly traded company.

Litigation & Dispute Support

•    Expert consulting and testimony support in matters involving cybersecurity failures, breach response adequacy, and standard-of-care disputes (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, sector regulations)

•    Expert reports, declarations, and affidavit support; opinions on reasonableness of security programs and incident response

•    Translation of complex technical evidence into plain language for judges, juries, arbitrators, and mediators

•    Deposition and cross-examination preparation support for counsel examining technical witnesses

•    Assessment of opposing expert positions; identification of technical weaknesses in adverse reports

Case Consulting

•    Case theory development on technology-heavy fact patterns; early case assessment of technical merits

•    Digital evidence interpretation: system logs, forensic images and reports, chain-of-custody review, timeline reconstruction

•    Coordination and quality control of digital forensics vendors and e-discovery technical workstreams

•    Damages contextualization: business impact of security incidents, remediation cost reasonableness

Incident & Regulatory Response Support (at Direction of Counsel)

•    Privilege-aware post-incident investigation structure and execution support

•    SEC cybersecurity disclosure rule readiness: materiality frameworks, disclosure controls, board oversight documentation

•    Regulatory interaction preparation: SEC, DOJ/FBI, state attorneys general — informed by decades inside federal law enforcement

•    Internal investigation support: scoping, evidence-handling discipline, executive interview strategy

Pre-Litigation & Preventive

•    Defensibility-focused security program gap assessments (build the record before you need it)

•    Whistleblower and complaint-intake program design; triage and escalation frameworks that survive scrutiny

•    Board and audit committee education on cyber oversight duties (Caremark-era expectations)

Engagement models: hourly expert consulting · fixed-scope assessments · monthly retainer · fractional executive arrangements. Rates and detailed scoping on request. Conflicts checked before every engagement

Fraud and misconduct analysis, cyber-enabled financial crime, board and special committee support, expert and monitorship roles

Who this serves: law firms, corporations, boards, special committees, and investors confronting complex fraud and misconduct where financial, human, and digital evidence intersect. This practice hybridizes three decades of FBI investigative methodology — including nation-state, critical infrastructure, and major financial crime casework — with executive-level cybersecurity and corporate governance experience. The distinctive value: one advisor who reads the ledger, the logs, and the people.

Complex Fraud & Misconduct Analysis

•    Fraud pattern and scheme analysis: financial statement fraud, procurement and vendor fraud, kickback and corruption typologies

•    Evidence chronology construction and link analysis across financial records, communications, and system data

•    Investigative planning and interview strategy grounded in FBI methodology; witness sequencing and preparation support

•    Assessment of investigative adequacy: whether an internal or external investigation would withstand regulator and litigation scrutiny

Cyber-Enabled Financial Crime

•    Business email compromise and wire fraud reconstruction; funds-flow tracing coordination including digital assets

•    Ransomware and extortion dynamics: threat actor behavior, negotiation context, payment decision frameworks

•    Insider threat and trusted-insider casework: detection, investigation structure, and prevention program design

•    Attribution context: distinguishing criminal, insider, and nation-state activity — and why it matters to liability and disclosure

•    Digital evidence strategy: what to preserve, what it proves, and where forensic vendors overreach or underdeliver

Corporate, Board & Governance Support

•    Independent assessments for boards and special committees on misconduct, security failures, and oversight questions

•    Whistleblower program design, complaint triage, and investigation governance that protects both the company and the reporter

•    Compliance program effectiveness reviews oriented to DOJ Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs expectations

•    Regulator and law-enforcement interaction preparation: what the government asks, why, and how credible cooperation looks from the inside

Expert & Advisory Roles

•    Expert consulting on law enforcement standards, investigative practices, and security governance standards of care

•    Monitorship and remediation support: post-settlement program rebuilds with credibility to agencies and courts

•    Crisis counsel to executives and boards during unfolding misconduct or breach events — decisions made in the first 72 hours

Engagement models: hourly expert consulting · fixed-scope assessments · monthly retainer · fractional executive arrangements. Rates and detailed scoping on request. Conflicts checked before every engagement.

Strategy and program build, fractional/interim CISO, implementation and technical guidance, OT/critical-infrastructure security, operations, compliance and assurance

Who this serves: enterprises, data center and critical infrastructure operators, private equity portfolio companies, and growth-stage technology firms. Vendor-neutral by design: RSF resells nothing and takes no platform commissions — the advice is the product. Credentials: former FBI senior executive (cyber and critical infrastructure), former North America security practice partner at PwC, former global CISO of Digital Realty (NYSE-listed data center REIT).

Strategy & Program Build

•    Enterprise security strategy aligned to business model, revenue protection, and risk appetite — not framework theater

•    Program stand-up from zero: governance, policy architecture, organizational design, budget construction, multi-year roadmaps

•    Board and audit committee reporting: metrics, risk quantification, and narratives that earn budget and trust

•    Security operating model design: build/buy/partner decisions, MSSP selection and oversight

Fractional & Interim Executive Leadership

•    Fractional CISO for organizations not ready for a full-time executive; interim CISO coverage during transitions

•    First-CISO stand-up for companies crossing the maturity threshold; hiring, onboarding, and mentoring the permanent successor

•    Executive advisor to sitting CISOs: board preparation, crisis counsel, career-grade decisions

Implementation & Technical Guidance

•    Control architecture guidance: identity and access, network segmentation, monitoring, detection and response stack design

•    Vendor and tool selection with genuine neutrality — requirements definition, evaluation, negotiation support

•    OT / ICS / building-systems security for mission-critical facilities: BMS, EPMS, DCIM environments; IT/OT convergence

•    De-risking OT security platform deployments in live, uptime-sensitive environments — the gap between buying the tool and it working

•    Data center and critical infrastructure security: design-stage security for new builds, physical-cyber convergence, tenant/provider responsibility models

Board & Audit Committee Advisory

•    Board preparation strategy: readying management teams and materials for board-level cyber discussions that go well

•    Audit committee briefings on cybersecurity and related risk matters — delivered as a stand-in for the CISO, alongside the CISO, or in support of independent auditors

•    Independent third-party briefings when the committee needs a voice with no stake in the budget being defended

•    Translation of technical security posture into fiduciary and disclosure language directors can act on

•    Pre-audit and pre-earnings cyber readiness reviews; oversight documentation that stands up later

Operations & Resilience

•    Incident response planning, playbooks, and executive tabletop exercises; ransomware readiness and recovery governance

•    SOC and detection maturity assessment; threat intelligence program design; insider risk programs

•    Crisis leadership: on-call senior counsel to executives during live incidents

Compliance & Assurance

•    SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST CSF readiness; audit preparation; independent-attestation strategy

•    Federal-adjacent orientation: CMMC, DFARS, CUI handling — segment selection and certification sequencing

•    Third-party and supply chain risk programs; M&A security due diligence (buy-side and sell-side)

•    AI-era security: securing AI infrastructure and workloads, AI governance frameworks, security implications of AI adoption

Engagement models: hourly expert consulting · fixed-scope assessments · monthly retainer · fractional executive arrangements. Rates and detailed scoping on request. Conflicts checked before every engagement.

Corporate and advisory board service; go-to-market advisory for cybersecurity companies selling into regulated enterprise and data centers; keynote and executive education