Tucker helps clients address digital, advanced analytics, and technology strategy issues. Focusing principally on supporting public and private-sector clients with strategic challenges related to innovation, security, digital risk management, public safety, and digital enablement, Tucker empowers clients on a broad range of industries to improve strategy and better achieve their missions.
An expert on cybersecurity, Tucker coleads McKinsey’s digital risk work globally. In this role, he coordinates McKinsey’s client service on cybersecurity issues, convenes several chief information security officer roundtables, and drives McKinsey’s research agenda on the topic. In addition to his core client work, Tucker is a frequent contributor to our publications and is the coauthor of the book Beyond Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Digital Business (Wiley, 2015).
Before joining McKinsey, Tucker served as a US naval officer and a special agent with Naval Criminal Investigative Service. He also cofounded Harbinger Technologies, a security technology company that was acquired by Acxiom Corporation.
Published work
“Enterprise cybersecurity: Aligning third parties and supply chains,” McKinsey & Company, May 2021
“The energy-sector threat: How to address cybersecurity vulnerabilities,” McKinsey & Company, November 2020
“Cybersecurity: Emerging challenges and solutions for the boards of financial-services companies,” McKinsey & Company, October 2020
“Building security into the customer experience,” McKinsey & Company, June 2020
“Insider threat: The human element of cyberrisk,” McKinsey & Company, September 2018
Beyond Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Digital Business, Wiley, 2015
“Repelling the cyberattackers,” McKinsey Quarterly, July 2015
“Why senior leaders are the front line against cyberattacks,” McKinsey & Company, June 2014
“The rising strategic risks of cyberattacks,” McKinsey Quarterly, May 2014
“How good is your cyberincident-response plan?,” McKinsey & Company, December 2013
Education
Harvard University
MBA, management
Duke University
BSE, political science and civil engineering