How Antonina got here
Growing up in a family of accountants, Antonina followed suit with a degree in accounting, but quickly discovered her interest in information technology during her first post-college position when she worked on an IT audit. Her experience since then has led Antonina to assist organizations across various industries, as well as both small mom-and-pop businesses to large global organizations where Antonina coordinated the information technology audits across both geographic and language barriers for multiple key international locations.
She has found her passion by combining her love for networking with applying the technical knowledge she gained from helping companies identify control gaps and security weaknesses. Her innate ability to connect with people allows her to effectively communicate weaknesses identified and make strong recommendations to management to help improve their cyber-environment.
How Antonina can help you
Antonina McAvoy specializes in cybersecurity, data protection, and privacy. She has 15 years of experience leading and performing a wide spectrum of cybersecurity reviews, SOX 404 business control mapping and Information Technology General Control (ITGC) assessments, AICPA SOC reporting, HIPAA compliance audits, HITRUST CSF readiness assessments, FFIEC ITGC examinations, Department of Defense (DoD) System Security Plans (SSP) and Plan of Action & Milestones (POA&M), DoD DFARS and CMMC readiness assessments (CMMC provisional assessor candidate), outsourced IT internal audits, and internal control assessment services.
Antonina has strong technical skills and is instrumental in performing complex data mapping exercises to identify where key data resides in an organization’s environment, assessing the design and operating effectiveness of control environments, as well as identifying control gaps and weak cybersecurity settings. She is well versed in translating IT risks, recommending business solutions, and advising organizations on designing strategies to create and improve sustainable data protection and enterprise-wide risk prevention programs.
Focus Areas:
Cybersecurity; Risk Advisory
Industry Area:
Various
