Allison Wikoff

Allison Wikoff has over 20 years of experience in network defense, incident response, and cyber threat intelligence and research in private industry and consulting organizations. Her role at PwC includes co-managing a team of strategic and technical intelligence analysts across 10+ countries to deliver cyber threat intelligence products to clients and broader PwC cyber engagements. Additionally, she is responsible for integrating PwC’s threat intelligence program into the cyber practices of PwC Americas territories. She regularly represents the firm’s view on the cyber threat landscape in tier one press, public forums, and security industry events.

Before joining PwC, Allison spearheaded efforts at IBM and Secureworks around nation-state research (specifically Iran-based threats) and collaboration with incident response teams as well as other various external stakeholders. Prior to her research experience, she was an incident responder and threat intelligence analyst for the Federal Reserve System’s National Incident Response Team (NIRT) and has held various network defense positions at other large organizations. Allison has numerous industry certifications, an undergraduate degree from University of Florida and a master’s degree from Columbia University where she guest lectures for several graduate information security courses.