Jim Van Dyke | Source | Senior Principal and Head of Innovation at TransUnion™
Jim Van Dyke
Jim is one of the country’s leading experts on data breaches, having served as an expert witness in many of the nation’s largest data breach litigations, including Anthem, Equifax and Yahoo. With his expertise, Jim co-founded Breach Clarity, the startup that developed a proprietary algorithm for the personalized identity and fraud risk assessment of data breaches. Breach Clarity was subsequently acquired by TransUnion.
Jim was the founder of Javelin Strategy & Research and served as its CEO for 12 years. He is a board member for the Identity Theft Resource Center, and is a former board member of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
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Jim Van Dyke, who has served as an expert harms witness in some of the country’s largest data breach litigations, noted that cybercriminals are pursuing supply chain attacks for a higher return on effort. “By focusing attacks on the accounting, payroll or administrative firms that serve multiple clients, a single breach can give an attacker access to the data of multiple organizations at once, including customer and employee records,” he said.
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TransUnion™
Senior Principal and Head of Innovation
started Mar 2023