Ashleigh Brown is an Associate Director leading the Asia Pacific Online Threat Intelligence practice.
Ashleigh heads up a regional online threat intelligence team of 16 analysts based in Sydney, Australia. As part of this team, Ashleigh provides clients with bespoke online threat monitoring, digital risk assessments, and person of interest assessments using open sources, social media platforms, and deep and dark web venues. By leveraging this online intelligence, she helps clients prioritise executive protection and proactively address critical threats, ensuring a strategic approach to safeguarding leadership.
Recent tasks that Ashleigh has worked on include:
- Leading a regional team focused on assessing the risks faced by major technology companies, investment firms, and insurance companies and coordinating a global follow-the-sun 24/7 model to deliver continuous, real-time support to clients.
- Overseeing a long-term, ongoing threat intelligence engagement with a major international e-commerce company, based in the APAC region.
- Orchestrated a multifaceted engagement for a global law firm, addressing insider risk concerns by delivering comprehensive intelligence solutions.
- Advising clients on actionable next steps to mitigate digital risks, providing strategic guidance to reduce vulnerabilities and enhance overall security.
- Supporting large Australian firms in navigating a heightened threat environment by analysing their online threat landscape to identify the most at-risk executives, providing actionable, data-driven intelligence to advise clients on improvements to their executive protection programmes.
- The design and implementation of tailored threat intelligence collection and analysis solutions for technology, pharmaceutical, and energy companies across the APAC region.
Ashleigh holds a Master s degree in Counter Terrorism and Security Studies from Kings College London, UK, and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Criminology from the Queen’s University Belfast, UK.