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Courtney focuses on supporting clients with issues of resilience and business continuity in the face of crisis. With over two decades of experience in financial services and consulting, she has helped clients manage continuity of operations through a range of crises, whether related to financial markets, man-made or natural disasters.
At Teneo, Courtney is the President of Teneo Security Risk Advisory, and in addition to managing all aspects of the division, she supports Fortune 500 clients with design and delivery of enterprise security strategy programs, focused on cybersecurity risk management, crisis preparedness and response and cyber crisis communications.
Prior to joining Teneo, Courtney worked for Accenture in the capital markets practice, managing global client account teams. Her project work was primarily in trading and investment banking, specifically managing multi-million dollar projects in operational risk, trading supervision, derivatives trading, middle and back office operations, regulatory reform and organizational design.
Before joining Accenture, Courtney worked for the electronic trading system division of Instinet (INET), formerly known as Island ECN in New York, where she was an account manager for all Island ECN equity trading for US and European based client groups. Before joining Island ECN, Courtney was a market supervisor for fixed income trading at Eurex in Frankfurt, Germany, the electronic trading division of Deutsche Boerse. Prior to Eurex, Courtney was a trade fraud investigator and open-outcry market supervisor for the futures and options markets.
Courtney holds an MS in Cybersecurity Risk & Strategy from New York University, and has completed executive education courses in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity with MIT and Harvard respectively. She also has an MBA from Loyola University in International Business and Finance and holds a BA in Economics and German from Miami University of Ohio. Courtney is a member of the American Council on Germany and serves on the board of Girls Inc. NYC.
Deepfakes arrived on the mainstream scene around 2019, quickly bringing us bogus celebrity videos and audio in the form of Nancy Pelosi, Tom Cruise and even Keanu Reeves – mostly for laughs and entertainment at the time. Since widespread access to and adoption of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2023 and newly…
Around the world, 2024 has already shown us that cybersecurity risk is alive and well. In the U.S., highly disruptive attacks, targeting Microsoft, UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiary Change Healthcare, have cast a new spotlight on companies and their cybersecurity practices by not just customers, media and investors, but federal…
Every business understands the importance of managing risk. Larger and more complex organizations and their risk management teams have always had to manage multiple risk categories, including financial risk, compliance and legal risk, geopolitical and regulatory risk, and operational risk – among others. More recently, however, new forms of risk…
In our first “Teneo Cyber Insights Series for CEOs” article, we highlighted how recent innovations in AI have amplified the profound changes and complexity in the cybersecurity realm. The second entry in the series…
Unfortunately, and out of necessity, organizations have accepted cyber risk as a cost of doing business. For years, business executives have repeated the mantra “it’s a matter of when, not if” in reference to cyber-attacks. But the range of motivations for cyber disruption has evolved and geopolitics has become an…
Thus far in 2023, the security community has seen cyber attackers leverage more advanced tactics and technologies to identify vulnerabilities and compromise cybersecurity. In addition, advancements in artificial intelligence, increased disinformation and deepfakes, on-going geopolitical risks and imminent regulations contribute to an increasingly complex cybersecurity challenge for executives. Considering these…
As organizations revisit strategies to manage unprecedented turnover and increased insider threat, Teneo assessed workforce attitudes toward mitigation tactics such as enhanced employee monitoring and surveillance. A Unique Environment A peculiar thing happened to the global labor market in 2021. Over a year into the pandemic in the US,…
The upcoming COP26 global climate summit, set to begin in Glasgow on October 31, provides environmental/climate advocacy groups with an opportunity to demonstrate their capabilities and heightens the potential for disruptive activity. In recent weeks, climate groups have carried out protests and rallies across the world, with more planned demonstrations…
Courtney Adante, Jerome Hauer, Ph.D, Jonathan Wackrow, Martha Carter, Orson Porter, Stephen Cohen and Wolf Piccoli join Kevin Kajiwara to discuss the latest updates and developments regarding the effect of the coronavirus. Listen to the Call Kevin Kajiwara…
As global efforts to stymie the spread of the virus escalate, school closures, mass gathering cancellations and social distancing have stoked anxiety levels and have forced a new normal that is only just taking shape for individuals, businesses and governments alike. In just the last 2 weeks, companies all over…
On January 1, 2020, Californians, through the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), will gain unprecedented control over their personal data and rights to privacy, as well as the legal recourse to take action against companies who fail to protect those rights. According to the regulation, Californians will finally be able…
Stepping outside of Teneo headquarters in Midtown, Manhattan, we are presented with constant reminders of the very real security risk around us. Police and fire sirens scream by regularly, while helicopters pepper the skyline during rush hour or major city-wide events. NYPD officers in fatigues armed with machine guns patrol…
As we usher in a new year and the promise of change, whether stemming from new administrations and legislation or new developments in business and technology, one thing is clear – the security issues we face, whether cyber or physical, are only increasing in complexity and prevalence. The year 2018…
