David Collier serves the firm’s Central Region as a Senior Vice President and is responsible for leading the delivery of all of Aon’s Cyber Solutions consulting services, including Proactive Cyber Risk Mitigation, Digital Forensics, Incident Response, Investigations, Penetration Testing, Private Equity and M&A Cyber Diligence. Prior to joining Aon Cyber Solutions, Dave held senior positions within the industry at technology software and service providers. Most recently, he was a director with Brainspace, a Cyxtera company and, prior to that, director with Recommind/Open Text where he led the central region practice.
Dave’s expertise includes experience on digital forensics assignments in civil, criminal, and regulatory matters and on assignments involving response to instances of computer crime and abuse. Dave also has significant experience supporting clients with needs in investigations, regulatory, and litigation matters. He regularly works to bridge the gap between process and technology to help drive efficiencies and cost-savings for clients.
Among the recent projects Dave has handled are a sophisticated network intrusion investigation involving the theft of sensitive data that was tracked back to a group in China; multiple digital forensics investigations in support of and in defense of allegations of thefts of trade secrets; a forensic reconstruction of data on stolen hard drives to enable the victim to make the appropriate notifications; providing guidance regarding the use of machine learning technologies in a number of large electronic discovery projects; and assisting multiple clients with proactive security assessments, including cyber threat simulation exercises and penetration testing.
