About the IAPP

Meredith Griffanti is a Senior Managing Director in the Strategic Communications segment at FTI Consulting and is based in New York City. She is an award-winning Crisis Communications and Cybersecurity PR professional and leads the firm’s Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Communications practice, specializing in complex cybersecurity attacks and data privacy investigations. She provides communications counsel to clients on both cybersecurity preparedness and incident response matters involving PII, PHI, IP and other sensitive data across a wide range of industries. Ms. Griffanti has worked on some of the most high-profile and highly sensitive data breaches around the world and has successfully navigated the communications response to cybersecurity incidents such as business email compromise, phishing and spear phishing, DDoS, credential stuffing, nation-state, critical infrastructure and major, double-extortion ransomware attacks. Ms. Griffanti helps her clients effectively and transparently communicate with their key stakeholders – from media, to employees, to customers and regulators – before, during and after a cybersecurity incident. She was named a “2020 Person of the Year for Crisis Management” by PR News and received a Cybersecurity Excellence Award for being the “2021 Cybersecurity PR Professional of the Year”. In 2021, she also received Consulting Magazine’s “Rising Star Award” for her crisis communications expertise. Ms. Griffanti is currently preparing for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam to further deepen her cybersecurity credentials.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Ms. Griffanti spent six years as a spokesperson for Equifax, a $3+ billion revenue, NYSE-listed company. As the Crisis Communications Leader, she was responsible for driving enterprise messaging around the response to one of the largest cyberattacks in history. Post-breach, she worked closely with the company’s Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Transformation Officer to rebuild trust with the public and communicate remediation efforts and program enhancements to other key stakeholders including clients, investors, and regulators. Ms. Griffanti also helped to revamp Equifax’s crisis management protocols and processes post-breach and advised executive leadership in advance of critical public appearances such as U.S. Congressional hearings and media interviews.

Previously, Ms. Griffanti was Equifax’s International Public Affairs Leader, where she spearheaded the company’s external engagement program across 10 Latin America countries to impact public opinion, shape favorable policy and mitigate regulatory risk to the company. A fluent Spanish speaker, Ms. Griffanti was responsible for driving the response to various crises across the region, as well as the integration strategies for several multi-million-dollar acquisitions. She joined Equifax in 2013 as the Senior Director of Public Relations & Corporate Communications and managed communications strategies for the company’s two largest businesses, helping to improve its reputation with consumers, regulators and clients.

Ms. Griffanti began her career on Capitol Hill, where she served as a communications director, spokesperson and press secretary to several elected officials. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Georgia and furthered her international studies abroad at the Universität Innsbruck in Innsbruck, Austria.