Presentations

Canada IT & Security Leaders Forum

  • This Event Took Place

    September 29 – October 1, 2024

Unifying Operations & Security in the Face of Advanced Threats

As advanced cyber threats escalate in sophistication, it’s imperative for organizations to rethink their defense strategies. This presentation underscores the critical necessity of unifying operations and security teams to effectively counter such adversaries, and the importance of strategic design in your tool ecosystem.

Agenda:

  • A Look at a Modern Threat
  • Building a Robust Cybersecurity Ecosystem
  • Converged Defense
  • Autonomous Endpoint Management

Presented by: Landon Tholen, Director, Solution Engineering, Tanium

Navigating the AI Security Maze: A Practical Guide to AI Security, Risk, and Compliance

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues its rapid ascent, concerns about AI security are becoming more prominent. This presentation addresses the intricate landscape of AI security, offering valuable resources for security, risk, and compliance professionals to identify and mitigate threats specific to AI effectively. With the proliferation of AI, malicious actors exploit various vulnerabilities, leading to emerging threats like data leaks, poisoning, and attacks on the AI supply chain.

The session will provide actionable recommendations, such as implementing AI governance practices, extending security and development practices into data science and machine learning, and ensuring a holistic approach to AI security. Join Simon Sulyma to equip yourself with practical tools and techniques to protect your organization’s defences against the evolving landscape of AI threats.

Presented by: Simon Sulyma, AVP, Information Risk Management, Manulife

From Detection to Resolution: A Forensic Guide to Incident Response

Join us as we embark on a journey from the initial discovery of digital disturbances to the final steps of resolving them, all through the lens of forensic expertise. Learn how to piece together digital clues, analyze them for insights, and apply this knowledge to effectively manage and mitigate incidents in the cyber realm. This session will arm you with the tools and techniques needed to navigate the complex world of incident response, turning challenges into opportunities for strengthening your digital defenses.

Presented by:

Steve Magowan, Former VP, Cybersecurity, Cineplex

Michael Seeley, Director Information Security Operations, BlackBerry

Future-proofing Cloud Security with CNAPP: A New Operating Model

A successful cloud security strategy needs to evolve to meet the rapidly changing needs of the business and growth of the cloud. Cutting-edge security teams are coming up with new approaches to increase their company’s adoption of the cloud and AI app development while managing the corresponding growth in potential attack surface. In this session, learn how you can improve your cloud security operational efficiency by 10 times while consolidating multiple siloed technologies using a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP).

Presented by: Thomas Nuth, Head of Cloud Product Marketing, Wiz

Quantum Preparedness and & Crypto Agility

Quantum computing is advancing rapidly and could soon break today’s encryption methods. To stay secure, organizations need to prepare by adopting systems that can quickly update to new encryption methods.

This session will focus on:

  • How quantum computing affects current encryption.
  • The importance of being able to quickly adapt to new cryptographic methods.
  • Practical steps to start preparing for the quantum future.

Learn how to protect your organization from the risks of quantum computing with practical, flexible security strategies.

Presented by: Natalia Bakhtina, Director of Cybersecurity and IT Risk Management, Former BFL Canada