Are you investigating an incident, or building a case against yourself?
Not all investigation risk comes from the incident itself. Sometimes it comes from how the investigation is handled. Uncontrolled data access, over-collection, and unclear processes can create corporate exposure that didn’t exist before. When a routine forensic workflow goes sideways, confidential internal reports can easily lose legal privilege, turning an investigation into a litigation nightmare.
In this session, we examine how investigations introduce risk, and how leading organizations are working smarter to contain both the incident and the investigation itself.
What You’ll Learn:
- The Over-Collection Trap: How grabbing too much data creates downstream regulatory exposure and leaves your organization with a toxic secondary data liability.
- The Under-Collection Blind Spot: Why overcorrecting out of fear causes teams to lose volatile evidence and temporary logs, blinding your root-cause analysis.
- The SCALE Framework: How to deploy a battle-tested operational blueprint that aligns security, privacy, and legal teams to keep the entire forensic process defensible.
The ultimate outcome of an incident isn't decided by the threat. It's decided by your first 72 hours of collection choices. Register now to protect your process before you have to defend it under a microscope.
Presenters
Emily O'Carroll
Field CISO - GuidePoint Security
Emily O'Carroll is a Field CISO with GuidePoint Security. GuidePoint Security is a $2
billion pure play security company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Virginia with
over 1,200 employees, 60% of which are tenured cybersecurity CISOs, engineers,
architects, and consultants. As a Field CISO, she supports clients as an interim or
virtual CISO, or in pre-sales activities and strategy decisions.
Prior to GuidePoint, Emily was the CISO at Topgolf Callaway Brands for over 9 years
and oversaw a global team of 30+ people. She built the cybersecurity strategy, program,
and team during a period of extreme revenue growth and acquisition, from $800M to
$4.28B per year, and acquisitions of Topgolf, TravisMathew, Ogio, and Jack Wolfskin.
Emily started her career in management consulting as an intern at KPMG in 2005 and
left as a Director in 2015. She spent time in KPMG’s San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon
Valley, and Chicago offices, and worked with major companies across all industry
verticals, including Fortune 50 companies.
Emily is a graduate of UC San Diego and has her bachelor's degree in Mathematics and
Economics.
Kyle Tang
eDiscovery Program Lead - Toyota North America
With 11 years of experience in the eDiscovery industry, Kyle is an experienced eDiscovery leader specializing in litigation support, legal technology, and cross-functional program leadership. In his current role at Toyota Motor North America, he leads eDiscovery initiatives, streamline complex workflows, and partner with legal and technical teams to deliver efficient, defensible solutions across a wide range of matters. Kyle holds multiple professional certifications including CEDS, GASF, GCFE, and EnCE.
Robert Bond
PMM, DFIR - Exterro
Daniel Gugliotta
Solutions Engineer, Digital Forensics - Exterro