Well-known
keynote speaker Edgar Perez has assembled a team of cyber experts
that provides essential cybersecurity awareness training to reduce
the risk that employees and partners can fall victim to sophisticated
phishing or social engineering methods and unknowingly serve as entry
points into the firm's information and data systems.
New
York City, NY, USA -- Renown cybersecurity speaker Edgar Perez is
offering 360° Cybersecurity Awareness Training services for Forbes
Global 2000 companies, in the wake of the large-scale WannaCry
ransomware attack that leveraged malicious software stolen from the
National Security Agency and exposed vulnerabilities in Microsoft
Windows computer systems in almost 150 countries.
Today
cybersecurity is top of mind for management. That same cannot be said
of all employees, who need to be appropriately trained and evaluated
on a consistent basis. That is where MrEdgarPerez.com's offering
becomes critical; it offers the world's first 360° Cybersecurity
Awareness Training that effectively prepares
employees at all levels of the organization, from the interns all the
way up to the chairman, CEO and board members.
Any
employee of major organizations can be exposed today to a
sophisticated phishing attack. MrEdgarPerez.com provides a baseline
analysis to understand how ready the client organization is to
respond to this type of attacks; once training is complete, its
readiness is benchmarked to the baseline assessment as well as
competitors in the same industry.
Edgar
Perez, author of The
Speed Traders and Knightmare
on Wall Street, is a recognized futurist, keynote
speaker and director of programs targeted at board members, chief
executive officers and senior executives looking for new ways to gain
and maintain a competitive business advantage.
RECENT
TESTIMONIALS
• "Your
presentation was the real highlight of the Emerging Markets
Investments Summit. You clearly have the connections in the industry
and are very well connected." Alex Ritson, BBC News Presenter at
The Newsroom, World Business Report and Business Matters (United
Kingdom)
• "I
would like to show my appreciation on your willingness to share your
insights about cybersecurity. We would certainly have you in mind as
we move forward to deal with this very important issue." Nik
Hasyudeen, former President of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants
(Malaysia)
• "It
was such a pleasure to have you participate in our conference. The
feedback was great and the information you shared with the audience
was invaluable. Once again, thank you for your contribution in making
the event a success." Holly Chudzy, Corporate Events
Coordinator, Peters & Co. (Canada)
THE
LARGEST RANSOMWARE CYBER ATTACK EVER
According
to The New York Times, malicious software, transmitted via email and
stolen from the National Security Agency, exposed vulnerabilities in
computer systems in almost 150 countries in one of the largest
"ransomware" attacks on record.
Cyberattackers
took over the computers, encrypted the information on them and then
demanded payment of $300 or more from users to unlock the devices.
Some of the world's largest institutions and government agencies have
been affected, including the Russian Interior Ministry, FedEx in the
United States and Britain's National Health Service.
As
people were fretting over whether to pay the digital ransom or lose
data, attackers might be pocketing more than $1 billion worldwide
before the deadline runs out to unlock the computers.
While
most cyberattacks are inherently global, this one seems more virulent
than most. It had spread to all corners of the globe, with Russia hit
the worst, followed by Ukraine, India and Taiwan, said Kaspersky Lab,
a Russian cybersecurity firm.
ABOUT
EDGAR PEREZ
Mr.
Edgar Perez is a published author, business consultant for
billion-dollar private equity and hedge funds and Council Member at
the Gerson Lehrman Group, Guidepoint Global Advisors and Research
International, with subject matter expertise in cyber security,
investing, trading, financial regulation (Dodd-Frank Act) and market
structure.
He
is author of Knightmare on Wall Street, The Rise and Fall of Knight
Capital and the Biggest Risk for Financial Markets (2013), and The
Speed Traders, An Insider's Look at the New High-Frequency Trading
Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World, published in
English by McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011), Published in Mandarin by China
Financial Publishing House (2012), and Investasi Super Kilat,
published in Bahasa Indonesia by Kompas Gramedia (2012).
Mr.
Perez is course director of Cybersecurity Boardroom Workshop, How
Boards of Directors and CXOs Can Build the Proper Foundation to
Address Today's Information Security Challenges, and The Speed
Traders Workshop, How High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable
Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX; he has
presented his workshops in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Seoul,
Kuala Lumpur, Warsaw, Kiev, New York, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai.
He contributes to The New York Times and China's International
Finance News and Sina Finance.
Mr.
Perez has been interviewed on CNN's Quest Means Business, CNBC's
Squawk on the Street, Worldwide Exchange, Cash Flow and Squawk Box,
FOX BUSINESS's Countdown to the Closing Bell and After the Bell,
Bloomberg TV's Market Makers, CNN en Español's Dinero, Petersburg -
Channel 5, Sina Finance, BNN's Business Day, CCTV China, Bankier.pl,
TheStreet.com, Leaderonomics, GPW Media, Channel NewsAsia's Business
Tonight and Cents & Sensibilities. In addition, Mr. Perez has
been featured on Sohu, News.Sina.com, Yicai, eastmoney, Caijing,
ETF88.com, 360doc, AH Radio, CNFOL.com, CITICS Futures, Tongxin
Securities, ZhiCheng.com, CBNweek.com, Caixin, Futures Daily, Xinhua,
CBN Newswire, Chinese Financial News, ifeng.com, International
Finance News, Finance.QQ.com, hexun.com, Finance.Sina.com, The Korea
Times, The Korea Herald, The Star, The Malaysian Insider, BMF 89.9,
iMoney Hong Kong, CNBC, Bloomberg Hedge Fund Brief, The Wall Street
Journal, The New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Valor Econômico,
FIXGlobal Trading, TODAY Online, Oriental Daily News and Business
Times.
Mr.
Perez has presented to the Council on Foreign Relations, Vadym Hetman
Kyiv National Economic University (Kiev), Quant Investment & HFT
Summit APAC (Shanghai), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(Washington DC), CFA Singapore, Hong Kong Securities Institute,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University,
University of International Business and Economics (Beijing), Hult
International Business School (Shanghai) and Pace University (New
York), among other public and private institutions. In addition, Mr.
Perez has spoken at a number of global conferences, including Cyber
Security World Conference (New York), Inside Market Data (Chicago),
Emerging Markets Investments Summit (Warsaw), CME Group's Global
Financial Leadership Conference (Naples Beach, FL), Harvard Business
School's Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference (Boston),
High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum (New York, Chicago), MIT Sloan
Investment Management Conference (Cambridge), Institutional
Investor's Global Growth Markets Forum (London), Technical Analysis
Society (Singapore), TradeTech Asia (Singapore), FIXGlobal Face2Face
(Seoul) and Private Equity Convention Russia, CIS & Eurasia
(London).
Mr.
Perez was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM,
and a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York City.
Previously, he managed Operations and Technology for Peruval Finance.
Mr. Perez has an undergraduate degree in Systems Engineering from
Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Peru (1994), a Master of
Administration from Universidad ESAN, Lima, Peru (1997) and a Master
of Business Administration from Columbia Business School, New York,
with a dual major in Finance and Management (2002). He belongs to the
Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. Mr. Perez is an accomplished salsa
and hustle dancer and resides in the New York City area.
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