Aniket Bhardwaj is the Vice President of Global Cybersecurity & Privacy Services at Charles River Associates, a leading global consulting firm that offers economic, financial, and strategic expertise to major law firms, corporations, accounting firms, and governments around the world. As the Vice President of Charles River Associates’ Global Cybersecurity and Incident Response Investigations, Forensics Services practice in Toronto, Bhardwaj provides cyber intrusion investigation services to clients globally. His 20 years of experience in crisis response, threat intelligence, attack surface identification, and other cybersecurity advisory services such as security hygiene, compromise discovery and red team, combined with his well-established understanding of challenges within the nation’s critical infrastructure, have made him one of the top cybersecurity leaders globally.
Before joining Charles River Associates, Bhardwaj worked with PwC’s Global Cyber Threat Operations team across the Americas and the EU, leading numerous incident response and cybersecurity transformation engagements. As well as being a GCIA, GREM, GCFA, and GNFA, Bhardwaj earned a Master’s degree in security & cryptography from Johns Hopkins University and is currently pursuing his MA in international affairs from King’s College London with a specialization in espionage & surveillance.
Endpoint & network threat detection, including both strategic & tactical threat intelligence, Helping clients through proactive threat detection, Crisis situations and breach response investigations concerning state-sponsored threat actors and organized crime groups.
Whether advising on information governance, responding to a theft of trade secret or cybersecurity breach allegation, responding to privacy-related securities or consumer class action litigation, or navigating the antitrust implications of alleged privacy-related market power, CRA has seasoned teams of experts to help navigate these complex and multifaceted challenges.
CRA’s focus areas:
Cybersecurity Due Diligence
Cybersecurity Incident Response
Cybersecurity Insurance Claims
Cybersecurity Strategic Advisory Services
Software Licensing Compliance
eDiscovery
Related capabilities:
Damages & Quantum
Forensic Accounting
Intellectual Property
Investigations & Compliance
Charles River Associates (CRA) is a leading global consulting firm that offers economic, financial, and strategic expertise to major law firms, corporations, accounting firms, and governments around the world. CRA’s experts bring a unique combination of cutting-edge research, state-of-the-art methods, and proven experience to bear on their clients’ most complex challenges.
CRA specializes in management consulting and economic litigation. CRA’s senior-led teams include leading academic experts and business leaders with experience across industries. Because of their proven skills in complex cases and exceptional strength in analytics, clients depend on their objective, fact-based advice for their high-profile, high-stakes matters.
Since 1965, clients have engaged CRA for our unique combination of functional expertise and industry knowledge, and for our objective solutions to complex problems. Headquartered in Boston, CRA has offices throughout the world.
