Stefan A. Deutscher
Partner & Associate Director
Berlin
Stefan A. Deutscher is a core member of Boston Consulting Group's Technology Advantage and Technology, Media & Telecommunications practices. He is BCG's global topic leader for cybersecurity and IT risk management, as well as BCG's global topic leader for IT infrastructure and data center operations, and he often supports his clients at the crossroads of these two topics.
Stefan has worked on these topics across industries since joining BCG in 2001 and serves clients on all continents and in industries including insurance, banking, aerospace, media, industrial goods, mining, chemical industries, IT, telecommunications, and the public sector.
Since 2016, Stefan has also served as a project advisor to the World Economic Forum on the topic of "Advancing Cyber Resilience." Initially, this work focused on empowering boards and executive teams with tools and practices to identify and manage business risks emanating from cyberthreats. It has moved on to enable public-private collaboration around cyberresilience.
Before joining BCG, Stefan spent nearly ten years building, operating, and advising academic computing centers, while also teaching and conducting research in computational atomic and surface physics, quantum chemistry, and high-performance computing at several international research centers in the US, France, Spain, and Austria.
Autonomous vehicles are essentially computers on wheels, and their increasingly complex digital technology opens the door for a new kind of cyber attack. Cyber security will play a vital role in bringing self-driving vehicles from science fiction fantasy to the real world.
Ensuring the cybersecurity of the electric grid is critical, requiring the engagement of the entire organization, proper processes and training, and vigilant evaluation of new technologies.
The best response: answer this question with questions. That way, you can make an informed decision about what’s right for your organization.
A large-scale cyberattack on the power grid could inflict major economic damage. Utility boards must act now to address the looming cyberrisks.
Companies are in an arms race. They need to protect their fledgling AI programs. AI also gives attackers a powerful new capability. The solution? AI.
Persistent misunderstandings over policy and technical issues have plagued collaboration between public and private sectors on cybersecurity. More and better cooperation is needed.
In the critical struggle to keep their digital data secure, businesses must address the tradeoff between end-user comfort and effective security patch deployment.
The cyberrisks to the health care industry include more than ransomware and threaten more than hospitals. All kinds of companies and institutions are vulnerable.
Citizens rightly expect government to take steps to protect against cyberattacks. But state and local governments are typically poorly suited to addressing cybersecurity on their own.
Baby monitors shutting down major websites? It’s not science fiction. New malware threatens IoT-connected devices—and the internet economy. But a collaborative approach offers solutions.
Managing cyberrisk is becoming crucial for large corporations worldwide, particularly so for those in the insurance industry. Insurers must treat cyberrisk in much the same way that they treat traditional insurance risk—by defining the level of exposure they are comfortable with and prioritizing investments accordingly.
