Presented by the school's Helen and Oscar Sufrin Lectureship in Accounting, Burg's talk — titled "Cybersecurity Issues and Implications for Financial Reporting" — will be held at 5:45 p.m. March 29 in 225 Natural Sciences Complex on UB's North Campus.
Financial markets and investors continue to view cybersecurity as critical to the integrity of business processes and the underlying financial information, making Burg's lecture particularly timely for accounting students and professionals.
Burg is an expert on practical issues related to cybersecurity. In his role at EY, one of the Big Four accounting firms, he assists clients in reactive and proactive consulting capacities involving the deployment of information technology solutions and their use.
He regularly contributes to, and has been quoted in, a variety of business and industry journals, and is passionate about presenting on a wide range of topics at global corporations, law firms, industry events and government agencies, and has lectured at NYU's Stern School of Business, Georgetown University and Penn State University.
Open to the public, the free lecture will be followed by Q&A. Advance registration is required by March 27; visit https://bit.ly/UBsufrin23 to reserve a seat. For more information, contact Cassie Nguyen, clinical assistant professor of accounting and law in the UB School of Management, at phuongng@buffalo.edu.
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