Quarterly Cybersecurity Community Call: Cybersecurity Insurance

Based on the feedback from Cybera’s members, we are expanding the depth and breadth of our cybersecurity community discussions initiated under the AB SecureIT project. When SecureIT was launched in 2020, the goal was to bring together Alberta’s 26 post-secondary institutions to strategize ways to share information and combat cybersecurity threats. We are now looking to bring Alberta’s K-12 community to the table.

On June 8, we will host our third quarterly community conversation with cybersecurity leaders across Alberta education (K-12 and PSI). 

This session, running from 1:30pm - 3:00pm MT, will feature  a discussion on “Cybersecurity Insurance”. Three practitioners from across Canada — Christopher Nelson from Edmonton Public Schools, Eric Charleston from Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, and James Cairns from Bow Valley College — will discuss getting value from cybersecurity insurance, including integration into your overall security program, must-haves, and legal implications. They will then be available to answer your questions.

These quarterly conversations are aimed at the folks who act as the bridge between the technical practitioners and the executive-levels in their organizations. They are the ones who live in both worlds, pulling the strategic, the technical, and the tactical (or stratactical) together.

Please register here. A link to the webinar will be sent to registrants closer to the event date.

Questions? Contact security@cybera.ca.

Speakers

Christopher Nelson

Christopher Nelson is an Information Security Professional with 15+ years of extensive global experience where he has worked for organizations as a Senior Executive to develop security strategies and deploy enterprise-wide solutions.

He entered the working world at age 17 and rose through the ranks to receive the award from the Junior Chamber of Commerce as the Young Entrepreneur of the Year. An avid writer, he is the author of several books including The First Line of Defense – Beginners Book of Cyber Security and the Executive Director of Cyber Security for Everyone.

His work in technology has taken him from the USA, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean where he is regarded as one of the most respected cyber security professionals in many of these markets and is currently an ISC2 Authorised Global Trainer.

Over the past 15 years, his focus has been on enhancing corporate security with the deployment of DLP, encryption, firewall, IDS/IPS solutions with organizations such as Capital One, Amtrak, Royal Bank of Canada, and Scotiabank.

He is married, the father of four children, a motivational speaker, and a voice for parents with autistic children. 

Eric Charleston

Eric Charleston helps clients triage and overcome cybersecurity incidents, including ransomware, data theft, business email compromise, funds diversion and other privacy breaches.  He is a certified information privacy professional in Canada and the U.S. (CIPP/C/US), with extensive knowledge of Canada’s and the United States's evolving privacy law landscape. He sits on the Canadian Advisory Board for the International Association of Privacy Professionals. He is also a cyber insurance expert and is regularly called upon by the world's largest insurers to assist with the most significant cyber claims in Canada.

James Cairns

James Cairns loves the evolving challenges of his career in IT Security and has spent more than 18 years invested in growing his experience as he implements systems and designs solutions to help students and colleagues learn and work more effectively and efficiently. As Lead, IT Security at Bow Valley College, he has been invited to local and national conversations, CanSSOC, Cybera AB Secure IT and Director at Large to the ISC² Alberta Chapter. His passion for promoting Cyber Security awareness and training inspired him to lead the committee for the Calgary edition of the non-profit BSides and he hopes he and his team can continue to attract more industries and experts to this very forum each year.