Led by a practitioner who has spent decades at the intersection of authority, accountability, and failure.
Background
Dr. Larry Snyder is the founder of Cyber Phronetic Conflict Advisory Group, a boutique consultancy focused on post-incident cyber conflict, governance failure, and executive decision breakdowns. His work sits at the intersection of cybersecurity, digital forensics, organizational governance, and conflict resolution.
He is a military police veteran, where early exposure to authority, accountability, and high-consequence decision-making shaped his understanding of how systems behave under stress. Following military service, he worked as a fraud investigator and auditor within the banking and finance industry, examining financial misconduct, control failures, and institutional blind spots across complex organizational environments.
Academic & Professional Career
His professional experience spans incident response contexts, forensic analysis, governance review, and executive decision environments during periods of operational disruption. In parallel, he has spent more than twenty years teaching cybersecurity and digital forensics at the university level, with a sustained focus on how organizations interpret risk, responsibility, and evidence when events do not unfold as planned.
As the founding Program Director of the Bay Path University MS in Cybersecurity, Dr. Snyder opened the inaugural cybersecurity summit — establishing the program's framework for understanding organizational risk, not just technical threat.
The Pattern That Founded CPCS
Across military, financial, academic, and cyber environments, one pattern remained consistent. Failures rarely originate from a single bad actor or missing control. They emerge when judgment, authority, narrative, and incentives collide. Dr. Snyder's work is dedicated to identifying those collision points and designing governance systems that can absorb disruption without cascading into paralysis, blame cycles, or institutional damage.
Cyber Phronetic Conflict Advisory Group was founded to address what traditional incident response, legal review, and compliance frameworks consistently leave behind: the human and organizational conflict that persists after containment.
The firm's name derives from the ancient concept of phronesis — practical wisdom, the capacity for sound judgment in complex, uncertain situations. That is precisely what post-incident governance requires and what existing frameworks consistently fail to provide.
A Note on Confidentiality
All CPCS Advisory engagements are handled with strict confidentiality. Client data is processed on an air-gapped workstation that does not connect to external networks or cloud services. This is not a policy — it is an operational commitment that reflects the nature of the environments we work in.
When an organization chooses to partner with us, we are honored and take that commitment very seriously.
Why CPCS Advisory exists.
The future we are building toward.
The principles that govern our practice.
A recognized voice on cyber risk since 2013.
The ideas behind CPCS Advisory were visible publicly long before the practice existed. Dr. Snyder has been a recognized voice on cybersecurity risk, organizational vulnerability, and the human cost of cyber incidents — years before post-incident conflict resolution emerged as a formal discipline.
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In 2018, a Massachusetts-wide media campaign placed Dr. Snyder in on-air appearances across Western Massachusetts, Hartford, Albany, Worcester, and Boston markets for the launch of Bay Path's online MS in Cybersecurity — the same year Governor Charlie Baker visited Bay Path to announce state funding for the program.
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We work with organizations that are ready to understand what happened.
Not every organization is in that position immediately after an incident. When yours is, we are prepared to assess whether there is a fit. All inquiries are held in strict confidence.