Don Ulsch specializes in analyzing China as a national security, geopolitical, economic and technology threat. He is particularly interested in the Smart City competition between China and the United States, developing nation Belt and Road Initiative status, and space-based asset risk management. A former cyber threat advisor to the Central Intelligence Agency and industry executive, Don Ulsch is the author of two books, THREAT! Managing Risking a Hostile World (IIA Research Foundation, 2008) and CYBER THREAT! How to Manage the Growing Risk of Cyber Attacks (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014).
An internationally known keynote speaker on security and risk, he serves on the speaker faculty of SkyTop Media in New York, New York, and is a contributing author. Ulsch is a member of the Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum in Washington, D.C., where he addresses China and national security concerns. In June 2021 he founded of the LinkedIn China Poll, which has some 30,000 followers from hundred of companies and governments around the world.
Previously, Ulsch was a Senior Managing Director at PwC, where he was s one of the leaders of the Cyber Breach and Incident Response global practice. At Dun & Bradstreet/Dataquest, he was Vice President and Chief Analyst of Information Security. Ulsch was a subject matter expert and advisor to bestselling novelist Dan Brown for his national security thriller novel, Digital Fortress. He is a Research Fellow in cybersecurity at the woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College. He is a former Guest Lecturer at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and has lectured at Boston University, Boston University School of Law, University of Colorado-Boulder, University of Maine School of Law, Pace University, Fordham University, University of Delaware, Mercy University, Boston Bar Association, the Practicing Law Institute, and others.
He has advised the following organizations, and others, on matters pertaining to United States adversaries, cybersecurity, cybercrime, risk, national security, space, Smart Cities, and related subjects:
- The Vatican
- Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum
- Investment Banks, Insurance Companies, Investment Companies, Technology Companies, Telecommunications Companies, Media Companies
- Imagine Engine Studios (Space Research & Technology)
- MPAY Inc. (Board of Directors, acquired by Tenet Capital Management)
- NYPD Cyber Intelligence
- United States Semite Committee on Foreign Relations (Indo-China Group)
- Ponemon Institute
- American Bar Association
- United States Central Intelligence Agency
- United States Secret Service
- Boston Police Department
- Federal Police (Mexico)
- SkyTop Media Group
- National Security Institute
- United States Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrets
- United States Treasury Cybersecurity Task Force on Critical Infrastructure
- United States Department of Energy
- Practicing Law Institute
- The Ashcroft Sullivan Law Firm
- Near East Center for Strategic Engagement
- Industrial Development Board for Nothern Ireland
- United Kingdom Ministry of Defense
- KUSH Democratic Majority Party of South Sudan, Africa
- Member of Parliament, Kenya
- Mercy University, Graduate School of Business
- Securities Industry Financial Markets Association (SIFMA)
- Massachusetts Undersecretary of the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation
- The Santa Fe Group
- 2020 Partners
- United States Defense Contractors (Confidential)
- High Technology Companies, Public (Confidential