Cybersecurity: Not a One Size Fits All AND Digital and Data Explosion: Protect Your Personal Privacy

CPA, CITP, CIPT, CISA, CCSK

Jeff Cook is a Director in the SOC practice at Coalfire and a seasoned information assurance and public accounting professional with over nine years of IT audit and consulting experience and over 20 years of experience in public accounting and auditing. Mr. Cook has worked extensively on SOC via the AICPA and has supported both SOC 1 and SOC 2 engagements in addition to providing IT audit support for traditional financial statement audits. In addition, he has functional knowledge of ISO standards, CSA STAR, C5, FISMA,, and FedRAMP. Mr. Cook is also an ISO 22301 Lead Auditor. Prior to joining Coalfire, Mr. Cook was a principal consultant and founder of a Washington, DC area accounting firm IT Audit and Advisory Group as well as a Senior Manager in the Government Contract Services Group. Mr. Cook helped issue the first SOC 2 report for the firm resulting in the firm becoming a registered SOC audit provider from the AICPA. Mr. Cook has also created procedures and provided training on risk-based IT audit procedures for financial audits to meet AICPA standards for IT risk. Mr. Cook went on to found Veris Group RA, a CPA affiliate of Veris Group, resulting in Veris issuing their first AICPA-based attestation and becoming a SOC provider. Mr. Cook is also heavily involved with the AICPA, volunteering with development of the SOC and CITP programs. Mr. Cook was part of the SOC 2 working group, helping to develop the 2018 version of the AICPA SOC 2 guide. Mr. Cook is a prior recipient of the AICPA Information Management and Technology Assurance (IMTA) Standing Ovation Award for outstanding professional achievement in the IT specialization area. Mr. Cook is a member of the Maryland Association of CPAs Board of Directors, the AICPA CITP credential committee, the AICPA IMTA SOC task force, and a Board Member for Community IT, a Washington, DC, based managed service provider for non-profits.