USA – ILLINOIS Trends and Developments Contributed by: Jamie Singer and Meredith Griffanti FTI Consulting, Inc. FTI Consulting, Inc. has one of the largest spe- cialised cybersecurity and data privacy com- munications practices in the world. It provides expert crisis communications counsel and sup- port throughout the entire lifecycle of an inci- dent. Named the Cybersecurity PR Firm of the Year by the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards three years running, FTI Consulting has proudly led the communications response for some of the largest and highest-profile cybersecurity matters in the past decade, including those in- volving PII, PHI, sensitive IP, double- and triple-
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extortion ransomware attacks and nation-state incidents, among many others. As an integrated member of its clients’ core cybersecurity inci- dent response teams, FTI Consulting partners with external legal counsel and forensic inves- tigators, and client’s internal teams to support its clients’ communications strategies and re- sponses throughout an incident. The Americas practice comprises nearly 20 dedicated prac- titioners, with seven current team members based in FTI Consulting’s Chicago office.
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Jamie Singer co-leads FTI Consulting’s Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Communications practice in the Americas and is based in Chicago. Jamie has counselled hundreds of
Meredith Griffanti is the global head of FTI Consulting’s Cybersecurity & Data Privacy
Communications practice, which spans the Americas, EMEA and APAC. Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Meredith spent six years in-house at Equifax where she led crisis communications and managed Equifax’s response to its 2017 breach, one of the largest cyber-attacks in history. From 2022-2024, she has been consecutively recognised in Chambers and Partners Crisis and Risk Management Guide and received individual rankings in the USA-Nationwide category for Crisis PR and Communications. Meredith is Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) by ISC2, the world’s leading member association for cybersecurity professionals.
organisations through some of the most high-profile and largest cybersecurity crises of the past decade, including half of the top ten largest healthcare data breaches in 2023. Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Jamie led the cyberstrategies division at Resolute Strategic Services and served as a senior lead in Edelman’s US Data Security and Privacy Group. Jamie won the 2023 Cybersecurity Excellence Award for “Cybersecurity PR Professional of the Year.”
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