B|Sides Edmonton 2023

CYPFER Founder and President
Jason Kotler
Jason is Founder & President of CYPFER Corp, one of the largest singularly-focused Global Cyber Extortion and Ransomware Advisory, Negotiations and Recovery firms.
Cypfer has had unsurpassed success in helping victim organizations recover from some of the largest global cyber-attacks. Jason has effectively managed more than 1,000 cyber extortion incidents and has a deep understanding of the incident attack chain, adversarial mindset, and negotiations and settlement strategies. He has built an elite Emergency Incident Response – “ER Team” – that specializes in conducting complex threat intelligence operations and engagement with cyber threat actors. Under his leadership, CYPFER has delivered an unsurpassed success rate of 100% on resolving mission-critical, time- sensitive and complex cyber-incidents and targeted extortions of high-profile individuals, well within the target objectives and defined success parameters, for companies of all sizes, ranging from Not-for-Profits, SMEs to large multinationals and public companies with revenue in the billons, in diverse sectors, industries and highly-regulated markets. Jason has more than 25 years of experience as a seasoned executive, holding CEO, COO, CISO and CIO roles, and successfully building, leading and scaling hyper-growth technology companies.