Over the last 25 years, John Reed Stark's name has become synonymous with data breach response, cybersecurity, and digital regulatory compliance. As president of John Reed Stark Consulting LLC, John's work emphasizes quarterbacking teams of technical, compliance, and legal experts in data breach, cyber-incident response, digital forensics, security science, cyber-risk resilience, and investigations for public and private companies, professional service firms (including law firms), and government agencies. He is also the author of The Cybersecurity Due Diligence Handbook, the first and only book of its kind.

John also serves as an expert in engagements pertaining to technological aspects of investigations, prosecutions, and enforcement matters conducted by the SEC, FINRA, and the US Department of Justice and aids in structuring and running corporate compliance projects for broker-dealers, investment advisers, and other regulated entities.

John provides expert testimony in the realm of securities regulation on behalf of individuals, entities, and government agencies, including in opposition to, and on behalf of, the SEC and other government agencies. During his 11-year tenure as founder and chief of the SEC's Office of Internet Enforcement, John led an extensive range of substantial and pioneering SEC enforcement actions.

In addition to authoring over 100 articles on cyber-related topics, John has been a frequent guest commentator in the national media on cybersecurity, securities regulation and other related areas. He also wrote a column for Compliance Week magazine and a blog, "Stark on IR," on Cybersecurity Docket, where he is also a contributing editor.

John served for 15 years as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School and since 2017 as a senior lecturing Fellow at Duke University Law School. He has taught a range of in-service sessions on cybercrime at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. He is a member of the Duke University School of Law Board of Visitors and the James B. Duke Society.