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. That environment — in which authority structures are explicit, consequence is immediate, and the gap between what the governance framework prescribes and what actually happens under pressure is highly visible — provided the foundational lens through which Dr. Snyder would later interpret organizational behavior in cyber incident contexts. 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.

The pattern is visible in law enforcement contexts, where the technical resolution of a crime — arrest, prosecution, adjudication — leaves behind a victim's experience that no formal process addresses. It is visible in financial fraud investigations, where the discovery and remediation of misconduct exposes the governance conditions that made it possible — conditions that compliance frameworks rarely touch. And it is visible in cyber incident after cyber incident, where the containment of a breach triggers a second crisis that the organization is entirely unprepared to manage.

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 brings together conflict resolution theory, systems analysis, and governance design in a practice specifically built for the post-incident environment — a practice that did not exist before Dr. Snyder built it.

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. Technical expertise alone is not sufficient. Legal compliance alone is not sufficient. What organizations need in the aftermath of a cyber incident is the capacity to make sound judgments under conditions of uncertainty, competing narratives, and institutional pressure — and that capacity is what CPCS Advisory is designed to develop and support.

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. Organizations that engage CPCS Advisory are typically operating under heightened legal scrutiny, regulatory oversight, or board-level pressure. The confidentiality architecture of the engagement is designed to be consistent with the most demanding privilege and data security requirements those environments impose.

Data destruction is a defined phase of the engagement process, not an afterthought. At the close of an engagement, client materials are destroyed according to a documented protocol, and clients receive confirmation that this has occurred. This practice reflects an understanding that the organizations we work with cannot afford ambiguity about where their sensitive information resides — and neither can we.

When an organization chooses to partner with us, we are honored and take that commitment very seriously. That is not a statement of marketing intent — it is a description of how every engagement is conducted from first contact through final deliverable.