Don Ulsch is a senior advisory board member, serving as the Director of China 863.  Don is also the founder of The China 863 Analyst, a research initiative specializing in how China is transforming itself and the developing world through advanced technology transfer—through cyber espionage, merger, and acquisition, equity investment, international joint market, and research ventures.

A former global cyber threat advisor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operating under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), he is the author of two books, THREAT! Managing Risk in a Hostile World and CYBER THREAT! How to Manage the Growing Risk of Cyber Attacks.

A China cyber strategy research advisor to KPMG, MacDonnell Ulsch is a widely respected commentator, lecturer, author, and analyst, advising the US government legislative branch and the private sector on the China threat.

Don has been at the forefront of many of the world’s major domestic and international national security and corporate data breaches—the ones you never hear about! The ones involving transnational organized criminal groups hijacking a CEO’s web identity to threatening a public company with blackmail—and exposing its top clients to pornographic websites. 

He is a commentator and analyst on the syndicated talk radio program Homeland Security Off the Record and a contributing editor at the national security website Intelis- copx.com. In addition, Don is a Distinguished Fellow at the Ponemon Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Near East Center for Strategic Engagement, a Cybersecurity Research Fellow at Boston College, and a Guest Lecturer on Cyber Warfare at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

He proudly served on the United States Treasury Critical Infrastructure Task Force and the United States Secrecy Commission. In addition, don was a Senior Managing Director of Cybercrime at Pricewaterhouse Coopers and a Vice President of Information Security and Chief Analyst at Dun & Bradstreet/Dataquest. He also was a national security source for his book, Digital Fortress, the novelist Dan Brown.

Don is a cybersecurity threat and risk management advisor to industry and government, and the use of artificial intelligence in cyber threat detection.  He is a Guest Lecturer on Cyber Warfare at the United States Military Academy at West Point and a Research Fellow in cybersecurity and national security at the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College.  He has lectured at many university graduate degree programs and industry conferences. 

He is the former Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Privacy Subcommittee. Mr. Ulsch is the former Senior Managing Director of cybercrime at PricewaterhouseCoopers and is the author of Cyber Threat! How to Manage the Growing Risk of Cyber Attacks, published in 2014 by John Wiley & Sons Inc., and Threat! Managing Risk in a Hostile World, published by The IIA Research Foundation in 2008. 

Mr. Ulsch has authored many articles and papers on geopolitical cyber threat trends and related topics.  He has led large-scale breach investigations in the commercial and defense industries and has served as a global cyber threat advisor to the intelligence community. Mr. Ulsch also served on the United States Secrecy Commission and a United States Treasury task force on critical infrastructure protection.

N. MacDonnell Ulsch

Don@UlschCyberAdvisory.com