Jayan Perera

Partner

  • Europe
  • Digital Risks Respond
  • Digital Risks

Jayan leads our global Digital Risks Response team, which supports clients through major cyber incidents and related crises. He helps senior leaders define their digital risk management strategies before, during and after major cyber attacks. 

He has extensive experience defining digital risk management strategies, building proportionate cyber defences, assessing response plans, and guiding effective crisis decision-making.  He has supported hundreds of clients through cyber incidents across the globe, regularly advising them on how to structure their strategic responses while executing the many technical and non-technical workstreams that often run in parallel.

Jayan also works with organisations to proactively improve strategy, process controls and technical defences. He has worked with businesses to build and improve security operations and achieve greater consistency in defences across jurisdictions and changing regulatory regimes. Jayan has worked closely with investors to assess cyber risk during acquisitions and helps them establish and maintain security baselines across their portfolios.

Recent tasks that Jayan has worked on include:

  • Led the strategic response to cyber incidents for clients with diverse global operations including ransomware attacks, server and system compromise, data extortions and thefts, insider investigations, email compromises, and IP theft.
  • Delivered complex cyber security strategy reviews and defined operating models in manufacturing, finance, energy and media sectors.
  • Delivered training for boards and executive teams on cyber crisis management and cyber extortion management.
  • Managed cyber due diligence into investment targets on behalf of financial institutions and expanding corporates.
  • Provided virtual CISO support to executive teams to help direct and focus security investments.
  • Provided ongoing advisory support across investment portfolios to enhance security maturity.
  • Jayan is a regular public speaker on the topic of cyber incidents and has given evidence as an expert witness to the UK Parliament on the impact of Ransomware attacks.

    Before joining Control Risks, Jayan was a cyber security specialist at a Big Four firm, delivering security transformation projects in the energy and resources, finance, insurance, telecoms and media industries.

    Jayan graduated from the University of Leeds, where he read International Relations.

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