The expertise division {of professional} providers agency FTI Consulting has been celebrating this previous week, profitable each company-wide and particular person awards for cybersecurity and information privateness.
Most just lately, FTI Consulting has been named ‘Cyber Safety Consulting Enterprise of the 12 months’ within the enterprise class on the third annual Australian Cyber Awards, hosted by on-line business publication Cyber Day by day at a gala occasion in Sydney.
A finalist within the class final 12 months, FTI Consulting has gone one higher in 2025 to say high honours from an advisory perspective, with Australian observe chief Wouter Veugelen additionally receiving the award for cybersecurity advisor of the 12 months.
The normal turnaround & restructuring specialist has been increase its cybersecurity capabilities since launching the observe regionally in 2023, pushed by the recruitment of Veugelen as senior managing director in Sydney after having beforehand spent greater than a decade between PwC and Ernst & Younger.
Veugelen stated of the twin accolades: “It’s wonderful to see how far we’ve are available in such a short while. Since inception, we have now supported many purchasers with cyber maturity uplift initiatives and to satisfy compliance obligations, responded to harmful ransomware incidents, performed advanced post-breach investigations, and offered cybersecurity skilled witness testimony.”
The cyber awards proceed a busy week of celebrations for FTI’s expertise consulting division, with fellow Sydney-based data governance, privateness & safety observe chief Tim de Sousa additionally being recognised with the ‘vanguard award’ for Oceania from the Worldwide Affiliation of Privateness Professionals (IAPP), the world’s largest such business physique.
Talking on the honour, de Sousa stated: “If I rely it up, I’ve now been a privateness skilled for over 15 years. After I began, social media was in its infancy, sensible telephones had been simply beginning out, massive information was solely concept, and augmented actuality was science fiction. Like many privateness professionals, I’ve needed to purchase many new hats because the business continuously grows new heads.”
FTI’s cybersecurity observe brings collectively tons of of cybersecurity specialists, builders, information scientists and strategic communications professionals with in depth investigative, intelligence, and enforcement backgrounds to offer purchasers with an built-in providing protecting evaluation, preparation, threats, compliance, restoration and response.
The agency states: “FTI Consulting takes an intelligence-led, expert-driven, strategic strategy to world cybersecurity and information privateness challenges affecting folks, operations and fame. As cyber threats proceed to evolve, and menace actors change into extra refined, organisations should put together for an more and more advanced menace panorama.”
