Canada Cyber Foundry - Speaker Series Experts
Meet our Speaker Series Experts
Importance of Risk-based Vulnerability Management
Victor Diev, Vulnerability & Config Management Specialist at White TuqueWhite, Victor Diev LinkedIn
Victor Diev has a diverse business & security background. He is presently an InfoSec technical expert in risk-based vulnerability management (VM), and has worked with over a hundred customers of various sizes to (re)build successful, cost-effective VM Programs

Strategies for enhancing your career opportunities in cybersecurity
Dr. Tyler S. Zemlak, Manager of New Venture Creation, University of Guelph, Tyler Zemlak LinkedIn
Tyler has over a decade of dedicated experience with campus-linked innovation, both as a hands-on contributor and steadfast supporter of pioneering initiatives.

Qualitative & Quantitative Cybersecurity Risk Assessment
Walter J. Cooke, CISSP, CCSP, Sr. Enterprise Security Architect , The Co-operators Group, Walter J. Cooke LinkedIn
Responsible for providing secure design and risk assessments of cloud-based information systems at Co-operators Insurance. 40+ years of Information Security experience in the financial, health, telecommunications, government, military and intelligence communities.

How I Hack Into Fortune 500s
Brendan Hohenadel, Team Lead for N. America and Principal Adversarial Engineer, LARES, Brendan Hohenadel LinkedIn
Brendan got his beginning in desktop support before moving over to security, first as defense before switching sides to offensive security. His current focus is malware development and payload delivery, as well as scouring enterprise networks for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and loot.

Communication Skills for Cyber Professionals/Introduction to Threat-Informed Defense
Todd Brecher, CISSP, eJPT, Manager, Cyber Defense (CISSP, eJPT ), KPMG, Todd Brecher LinkedIn
Todd is a Manager in KPMG Canada’s Cyber Defense practice who oversees the delivery of technical security assessments, vulnerability management transformations, and adversary emulation exercises. Todd’s technical expertise and risk assessment communication skills have helped him to assist many dozens of Canadian businesses with bolstering their defensible cyber security posture. Todd is a firm believer in experiential learning and is a staunch supporter of COOP programming for post-secondary students in the cyber security field.
