Robert Deane

Rob Deane

Associate Managing Director

Rob Deane is an associate managing director in the Cyber Risk practice, based in New York.

Rob  leverages more than 20 years of experience in securing application, infrastructure and cloud computing environments. He has assisted numerous financial services, health care and manufacturing clients in solving complex security challenges.

Prior to the acquisition of Security Compass Advisory (SCA) by Kroll in December 2021,  Rob served as a director at SCA. Additionally, he held leadership positions at Synopsys Incorporated, Protiviti and Accenture. Rob has spoken at numerous security conferences, such as RSA Conference, Black Hat and SecureWorld. He actively publishes content on DevSecOps, cloud security, virtualization technologies and mobile security. Rob has also served as an (ISC)2 Exam Developer for the past five years, in the hopes of preparing the next generation of security leaders for the challenges they will face in their future roles.

Rob holds a B.A. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MBA from Fordham University. He also holds CISSP, CCSK and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certifications. He is an active member of ISC2, OWASP, FS-ISAC, ISACA and ISSA NY Chapter.



Cyber Risk

Incident response, digital forensics, breach notification, managed detection services, penetration testing, cyber assessments and advisory.

Agile Penetration Testing Program

Integrated into your software development lifecycle (SDLC), Kroll’s agile penetration testing program is designed to help teams address security risks in real time and on budget.

Application Threat Modeling Services

Kroll helps development teams design and build internal application threat modeling programs to identify and manage their most pressing vulnerabilities.


Application Security Services

Kroll’s product security experts upscale your AppSec program with strategic application security services catered to your team’s culture and needs, merging engineering and security into a nimble unit.

Penetration Testing Services

Validate your cyber defenses against real-world threats. Kroll’s world-class penetration testing services bring together front-line threat intelligence, thousands of hours of cyber security assessments completed each year and a team of certified cyber experts — the foundation for our sophisticated and scalable approach.

Cloud Security Services

Kroll’s multi-layered approach to cloud security consulting services merges our industry-leading team of AWS and Azure-certified architects, cloud security experts and unrivalled incident expertise.


Cyber Risk Retainer

Kroll delivers more than a typical incident response retainer—secure a true cyber risk retainer with elite digital forensics and incident response capabilities and maximum flexibility for proactive and notification services.