M. Ariel Evans

Ariel is a senior cybersecurity expert, serial entrepreneur, and author. Ariel is the CEO of Ri$kQ, a cyber risk management platform company and the founder of Cyber Intelligence 4U (CIU) an educational cybersecurity company. She has won numerous awards including the EU Commission award for Innovation in cyber risk and Gartner Cool Vendor in Privacy Management. Ariel is the pioneer of the digital asset approach to cyber risk. She is the author of Managing Cyber Risk* published by Routledge Press in April of 2019. Her book is based upon three years of research with the Fortune 1000 and cyber insurance industry. Over 200 interviews were done identifying the gaps in company maturity and cyber risk compared to with over 20 company metrics. The result is what Ariel defines as the digital asset approach. Over 85 percent of a business is now in digital form compared to 10% in 2001. That means 85% of a businesss value is digital. The book provides the basis to measure digital asset risk with use cases for measuring cyber resilience, cyber insurance needs, M&A risk quantification, resource and budgeting needs in metrics that boards and directors can understand.