By:
Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq.
Founder/CEO
The Project Counsel Group
15 March 2016 – Over the last few months I have conducted a series of video interviews around the world with members of the PwC “brain trust”. It began with a casual conversation with Andrew Gordon, global leader of forensic services at PwC, during a forensics conference. My interest was heightened when a colleague at Google Analytics told me about the PwC-Google alliance partnership which will be the focus of a separate post.
PwC is the world’s largest professional services firm. It was formed in 1998 from a merger between Price Waterhouse and Coopers and Lybrand. With offices in 157 countries and more than 208,000 people, its professional services network is enormous. In FY15, PwC firms provided services to 418 companies in the Fortune Global 500 and 443 in the FT Global 500. And they are ranked 2nd as the most attractive employer in the world for business students by Universum.
I have worked with PwC on a number of e-discovery projects involving legal disputes and internal investigations and I have always been impressed with their evolving technology to deal with the complexity and interconnectedness of potentially relevant information. But their overall insights on business process management is even more impressive. So I endeavored to learn more and spend some time with some of their leaders in cyber security, data analytics, and forensics.
It has been a fascinating series of interviews with a focus on every aspect of business strategy and business systems integration practice. We covered enterprise-wide views of governance, people, processes and technology … as guides to the opportunity for data, areas of required improvement, and the current maturity of the organization when dealing with data in general: great chats about cyber and such things as architecture requirements in security and scalability; data as an available, single, integrated source; and all the challenges of global e-discovery and how to overcome them.
The initial video interview series will include (more are being added):
– Sally Trivino, director at PwC Belgium where she leads the Forensic Technology Services department and the Data Analytics group (filmed at LawTech Europe 2015 in Brussels, Belgium)
– Cyber/security Associate Fabrice Garnier de Labareyre at PwC France (filmed at the Forum International de la Cybersécurité in Lille, France)
– Tom Archer, PwC US Technology Industry Leader at PwC Silicon Valley (filmed at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, France)
– David Burg, PwC Global and US Cybersecurity Leader, at PwC Washington, D.C. (filmed in the offices of PwC)
In this post we start with Sally Trivino. Sally is a director at PwC Belgium where she leads the Forensic Technology Services department and the Data Analytics group. The Forensic IT team provides digital investigation techniques such as e-discovery, forensic data mining and cyber forensic services for clients facing litigation, arbitration or general regulatory compliance and other crisis management challenges like fraud investigations. The Forensic Technology department combines commercial, legal/regulatory and in-depth IT technical skills. This includes data analysis & data mining, e-discovery & computer forensic, software asset management and cyber forensics. Sally has led and performed projects for both public as private sector clients with challenges in the area of fraud, anti-trust, corruption, IP infringements, data protection & data privacy breaches and incident response. Sally has built a specific expertise in advanced data analytics techniques.
My chat with Sally:
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