ISACA Victoria proudly presents an online “SPRING-BOARD STUDENT CONFERENCE 2022” for students and young professionals in the Greater Victoria Capital Regional District.
April 28, 2022 – 5:00 to 8:00 PM PST
** Free Event **
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Inspiring Careers in Cyber Security: The Future of Work in Technology
Helping you choose your future career field:
- Cybersecurity
- Security Awareness
- Vulnerability Management
- Incident Response
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Welcoming Remarks
5:00 pm to 5:10 pm
- Kent Berger-North - ISACA Victoria President
- Venky Thiruvengadam - ISACA Academic Relations Director
Session 1: Cybersecurity
5:10 pm to 5:40 pm
Round Table Panelists:
- Gary Perkins - Executive Director, Chief Information Security Officer, Ministry of Citizens' Services, Province of BC
- Spencer Tickner - Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer, Ministry of Education, Government of BC
Break - Poll
Session 2: Security Awareness
5:50 pm to 6:20 pm
Round Table Panelists:
- Trace Muldoon - Manager, Security Governance & Engagement/Awareness, Government of BC
- Professor Kin Fun Li - Professor in University of Victoria.
Break - Poll
Session 3: - Vulnerability Management
6:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Round Table Panelists:
- Brian Horncastle - Manager of Vulnerability and Risk Management, Government of BC
- Saranya Govvala - Application Security Analyst, Mirai Security
Break - Poll
Session 4: - Incident Response
7:10 pm to 7:40 pm
Round Table Panelists:
- Alexander Rau - Cybersecurity Partner, KPMG
- Dale Land - Director, Cyber Intelligence and Investigations, Government of BC
- Alex Dow - Co-Founder/Chief Innovation Officer, Mirai Security
Break - Poll
7:40 pm to 7:55 pm
Q&A/Break: Students to make connections and ask questions.
Closing Remarks
7:55 pm to 8:00 pm
- Kent Berger-North - ISACA Victoria President
Sponsors
Thanks to our sponsors for their generous support.
Speaker BIOs
Gary Perkins
Gary Perkins is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Government of British Columbia. As the Executive Director of the Information Security Branch, Perkins is responsible for providing cybersecurity services in support of the province. He has more than 18 years of experience in information technology, risk management and cybersecurity. Prior to joining the BC Government, Perkins worked in the private sector as chief of staff for security at TELUS and, earlier in his career, led teams responsible for incident response, operations, delivery, and architecture for both corporate and managed security services customers. A CISSP since 2004, Perkins also holds an MBA from Simon Fraser University’s Management of Technology program.
Spencer Tickner
Spencer Tickner is currently the Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer for the Ministry of Education and Child Care of British Columbia. His 18 year career with the BC Government has focused on how we can modernize government service delivery to citizens. Spencer oversees the Privacy & Security department for the Ministry and is passionate about how evolving system architectures, application development methodologies, and value delivery pipelines can offer opportunities in the cybersecurity space without hampering continuous improvement activities.
Trace Muldoon
Trace Muldoon is the Manager of Security Governance, Engagement and Awareness for the Province of B.C.
She leads the Governance and Engagement teams within the Office of the Chief Information Officer for the B.C. Government. Trace is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) with over 30 years of information systems and information security related immersion. She has a wealth of experience and knowledge and is passionate about cybersecurity awareness, risk management, security governance, and best practices. Her goal is to raise the cyber awareness bar for all levels of government, broader public sector clients, and citizens, ensuring cyber-savvy digital Canadians.
Professor Kin Fun Li
Professor Kin Fun Li initiated and managed two highly sought-after professional master’s programs in, Telecommunications and Information Security (MTIS) and Applied Data Science (MADS), at the University of Victoria, Canada, where he teaches both hardware and software courses. He dedicates his time to instructing and researching in computer architecture, education analytics, image processing and data mining applications. Prof. Li is also a passionate supporter and participant in numerous international activities to promote the engineering profession, education, and diversity. He is a senior member of the IEEE, an honorary member of the Golden Key, and a registered professional engineer in the province of British Columbia.
Brian Horncastle
Brian Horncastle has worked in the field of information technology since the year 2000 with information security as a major focus throughout. Brian has been in the public sector since 2007. From 2012 through to present Brian has led security related teams with the Province of British Columbia. Brian is currently Manager of Vulnerability and Risk Management for the province. Brian has significant skills and knowledge on these topics. He brings a balanced, logical, and pragmatic approach to conversations about the protection of IT assets and systems.
Saranya Govvala
Saranya has three years of IT experience with a master’s degree in Cyber Security. Saranya worked in various fields of Technology related to Application Virtualization and Application Packaging. With the belief cyber security as being the backbone of an IT infrastructure to perform daily organizational tasks with reliability, started a career in cyber security. Saranya worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, Helped in establishing a cyber security firm during her academics. Saranya currently working as an Information Security Analyst dealing with Vulnerability Management for various clients in Mirai along with Vulnerability assessment and Penetration testing.
Alexander Rau
Alexander Rau is a Partner in KPMG’s Technology Risk Consulting (TRC) Advisory Practice focusing on Cyber Security and Cyber Incident Response. Alexander is responsible for leading KPMG’s Cyber Response Practice providing cyber security services to support and enable clients to better respond to cyber incidents before, during and after a cyber breach. With over 17 years of experience in Cyber Security, IT and Privacy, Alexander has provided leadership to a number of multinational organizations, leading and delivering incident response and strategic cyber security engagements, practice leadership, and business development. His roles have included cyber security evangelism, conducting media interviews, keynote speaker and panelist engagements.
Throughout his career Alexander has leveraged his business and cyber security background to advise public sector and private enterprise clients on next generation cyber security threat prevention technologies, methodologies and resiliency concepts. Combining his knowledge and professional experiences in IT and cyber security management, consulting and strategy, with his finance and economics background, he brings unique professional qualifications, experience, and perspectives to his clients, addressing the ever-changing security landscape and its impacts on organizations.
Dale Land
Dale Land is the Director of Cyber Intelligence and Investigations in the OCIO/Information Security Branch within Government of British Columbia. Dale has worked on the defensive side of cyber security for a long time. Prior to his current role, he worked on critical infrastructure protection as a member of BC Hydro and has also held various IT leadership roles at a US Department of Energy Research Laboratory. Dale holds a MS in Computer Science and a BS in Computer Engineering. A licensed geek.
Alex Dow
Over the past two decades, Alex has worked within three mission-critical security operation centres (SOC), including the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics SOC, has established Vancouver’s cyber security community and in 2017 co-founded one of Western Canada’s largest cyber security consultancy. Alex is a community builder. In 2013, he established Vancouver’s cyber security community through the founding of the BSides Vancouver cyber security conference. In 2017, frustrated with how broken cyber security consulting had become, forged Mirai Security from within the community. Mirai Security has quickly become the centre for cyber security excellence in Western Canada by attracting cyber security professionals who want to do cyber security better.
Alex is an innovator. Over the years, he has focused on balancing risk by pragmatically improving situational awareness and incident response capabilities through business-enabling security architectures. Today, Alex is the Chief Innovations Officer at Mirai Security. Mirai, Japanese for the future, focuses on the “future of cyber risk” by helping enterprises securely digitally transform through innovative governance, secure Cloud adoption and maturing software development practices to align with privacy and security requirements. Alex is a thought leader. He has a passion for knowledge and giving back to the community through public speaking, contributing to cyber security books, has taught for the SANS Institute, and continues to advise the higher education sector on the future of cyber security.
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