Our People and Purpose

Surefire Cyber’s approach and platform are designed by industry veterans who have worked shoulder-to­shoulder with breach coaches, insurance carriers, brokers, law enforcement, and impacted organizations in responding to thousands of cyber incidents. We are marshalling this experience to address the industry’s persistent challenges.

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Why Surefire Cyber

For Clients

  • Deep experience managing through cyber incidents

  • Empathy to guide your team during a difficult time

  • Skill in helping you emerge stronger

For Insurance Carriers

  • Transparent pricing – no surprises

  • Hands-on restoration experts to reduce business interruption

  • End-to-end capabilities including negotiation, data mining, and remediation

For Law Firms

  • Responsiveness within minutes, day or night

  • Clear communications – no surprises

  • Critical thinking to help structure critical decisions

Our People

Billy Gouveia

CEO and Founder

Jeanne Pardo

Chief Financial Officer

Marc Bleicher

Chief Technology Officer

Jenna Zucali

Chief People Officer

Joe Tarraf

Chief Delivery Officer

Kimberly Baldoni

Chief Marketing Officer

Karla Reffold

Chief Product Officer

Valerie Bernacki

Chief of Staff

Tim Tolan

Head of Business Development

Brian Dykstra

Director, Cyber Advisory

Dom Paci

Director, Cyber Solutions

Tom Owens

Director, Cyber Solutions

John Lancaster

Director, DFIR

Matt Dowling

Director, DFIR

Luke Emrich

Director, DFIR

Dave Coligado

Director, Restoration

Matt Britton

Principal Consultant, DFIR

Fielding Clark

Principal Consultant, DFIR

Kevin Smith

Principal Consultant, DFIR

Teresa Whitmore

Principal Consultant, DFIR

Kathy Helenek

Principal Consultant, DFIR

Kevin Poindexter

Principal Consultant, DFIR

Theo Papadopoulos

Senior DevOps Engineer

Nichole Pinto

Senior Consultant, DFIR

Brian Perry

Senior Consultant, DFIR

Maddox Williams

Senior Consultant, Restoration

Dalton Krupa

Senior Consultant, Restoration

Matt Winkelstein

Consultant, Restoration

Will Hearn

Consultant, DFIR

Violetta Imana

Consultant, DFIR

Lauren Brown

Senior Project Manager

Don Reece

Principal, Engineer

Our Board

Don Dixon

Board Chairman

Cyndi Gula

Board Member

Andrew McClure

Board Member

Billy Gouveia

Board Member

Reynaldo Kirton

Board Observer
Recent News

Surefire Cyber and Industry Updates

  • New Vulnerability in Connectwise ScreenConnect

    February 23, 2024

    By Karla Reffold A new patch has been issued for CVE-2024-1709, a vulnerability present in Connectwise ScreenConnect, a remote access support tool that can be cloud or self-hosted. ConnectWise also ... Learn More

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  • Toothbrush Botnet Army and DDoS Attacks

    February 9, 2024

    By Karla Reffold Gaining attention this week was the claim that 3 million toothbrushes were compromised to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a Swiss company. While this has ... Learn More

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  • Takeaways from the Google Report on Zero-days

    February 8, 2024

    By Karla Reffold Google issued a report this week about the proliferation of commercial spyware tools and the link to zero-days in their products. In 2023, 20 of the 25 ... Learn More

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