Profile
MacDonnell “Don” Ulsch founded MacDonnell Ulsch Cyber Advisory LLC in 2017. Before this, he was a senior managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the leaders of its cyber breach and response global practice. He also served as vice president of information security at Dun & Bradstreet.
Prior to returning to PWC for the second time, he founded ZeroPoint Risk Research, LLC, specializing in cyber-breach forensics for commercial and defense companies. The range of crimes committed against his clients ranged from adversary government espionage to intellectual property theft.
Don has authored two books: THREAT! Managing Risk in a Hostile World, published by the Institute of Internal Auditor Research Foundation in 2008, and Cyber Threat! How to Manage the Growing Risk of Cyber Attacks, published by John Wiley & Sons Inc., in 2014.
His book Cyber Threat! was stolen by transnational organized crime in Eastern Europe as part of a money-laundering operation involving Amazon, another theft of intellectual property when it was published by the University of Delta in Nigeria without his permission.
Don is a practicing member of the Parliamentary Intelligence Security Forum in Washington, D.C. His focus there is on China. He has also served as an adviser to the Vatican on the proliferation of technology to developing nations and the role of China in that proliferation.
Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, he served as a cyber-threat adviser to the Central Intelligence Agency; on the U.S. Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy; and the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection task force.
Don has also been an adviser to the U.S. Secret Service on cyber-threat issues. At the U.S. Military Academy, he was a guest lecturer on cyber warfare.
He has also been targeted by organized crime, the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist group in Pakistan, and by the Iranian government.
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