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Canada Cyber Foundry - Speaker Series Experts

Meet our Speaker Series Experts

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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

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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.

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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.

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How I Hack Into Fortune 500s

Brendan Hohenadel, Team Lead for N. America and Principal Adversarial Engineer, LARESBrendan 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.

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Communication Skills for Cyber Professionals/Introduction to Threat-Informed Defense

Todd Brecher, CISSP, eJPT, Manager, Cyber Defense (CISSP, eJPT ), KPMGTodd 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.