Learning from Dyn’s Crisis Response

Last week, Dynamic Network Services Inc., a web-technology provider, suffered a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that resulted in some of the top sites on the internet being disrupted, including Twitter, Netflix, PayPal and Spotify. An investigation is ongoing. The Wall Street Journals “Crisis of the Week” column asked experts to assess Dyn’s crisis communications response. Shannon Wilkinson, our CEO, was one. Her take: Dyn has embraced the most important quality inRead more

The Reputation Risk of Human Trafficking in Supply Chains

David Niccolini is a Reputation Communications Advisory Board member, and a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of professional experience. His work has spanned over six continents and across dozens of industry verticals, and his expertise is now sought after by multinational corporations, high-net-worth family offices, and senior executives from business, NGOs, and the U.S. Government. Through his most recent venture, Evidencity, he has become a passionate advocate for efforts to combat humanRead more

Introducing Reputation Communications’ Advisory Board

From serving CEOs and entrepreneurs to law firms and multinational financial companies, the mission of managing our clients’ reputational risk and shaping how the world sees them and their brands, remains our constant focus. Keeping this in mind, I want to highlight the members of our Advisory Board. They are leaders and innovators who offer a breadth of expertise from the top levels of their fieldsScott B. Alswang is a security expert withRead more

Charles Marino on Ultra-High Net Worth Reputation Management

Having worked with ultra-high net worth individuals and families over the years, we have become attuned to the issues they face: heightened privacy and security pressures, invasive interest in their private and business lives, unwanted attention in a high-risk world, and being the focus of unrelenting hacker attempts to access their confidential and financial data. Attorneys, family offices and security teams go hand-in-hand with reputation management. We work in tandem with one or more suchRead more

Expert Witness

Shannon Wilkinson, Expert Witness Shannon Wilkinson is an Expert Witness and consultant in defamation and related types of legal cases. Shannon WilkinsonFounder & CEO, Reputation CommunicationsExpert Witness DOWNLOAD CV (PDF) REPUTATION MANAGEMENT Reputation Communications – Founder & CEO Shannon Wilkinson is a nationally recognized expert in online reputation management. Her New York City-based firm Reputation Communications advises clients on all aspects of reputation management. She serves asRead more

Martha Josephson: Palo Alto’s Top Talent Sourcer

As the tech industry soars with start-ups and expansions, companies are continually seeking new talent: leaders who can innovate, emerging digital talent, senior management stars, board directors, and more. Martha Josephson helps Silicon Valley’s leading large companies and most promising start-ups to find this new talent. She leads Egon Zehnder’s global Digital Media Practice, a pioneering specialty she launched in 1996 to serve the technology and communications niche. We interviewed her on theRead more

Huffington Post: "Online, Your Reputation is Everything"

Huffington Post has published an interview with Reputation Communications CEO Shannon Wilkinson about personal branding online. These are highlights from Stacey Cohen’s article: “Personal brands are complex, shaped by our skills, our interests and the content we create, from our tweets to our blog posts. But at the foundation of any personal brand is a singular – and paramount – trait: our reputations. Without a positive reputation, no personal brand can flourish. If you’re notRead more