Resiliency in the Digital Age: Cyber Security Summit
The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade is bringing together experts in cyber security to explore the threats facing business in the digital age. As the internet expands exponentially, it is increasingly urgent for industry to maintain resiliency in the face of cyber threats.
MORNING KEYNOTE:
Ray Boisvert
CEO, I-Sec Integrated Strategies (ISECIS)
Cyber and Insider Threats: Understanding the complexity, velocity and business impact.
North American businesses and government institutions are under constant attack from the outside and within.
As predicted for 2016 and beyond, the principal target of the majority of cyber attacks will be small to medium size businesses. If subjected to a breach, private enterprise representing all sectors of the economy, from extractive industries to software, are at risk of losing their access to the supply chain, customer confidence and their core financial assets.
Socially engineered emails, or Spearphishing, along with the betrayal by "insiders", are the new normal. It is an age of asymmetrical threats, where a diverse set of actors, from organized criminal groups half way around the world to hacktivists nearby, have disproportionate power. It is also a world of Fifth Dimensional warfare targeting business, critical infrastructure, defence resources, intellectual property, a country's financial stability, and personal privacy – often from converging global interests.
SESSION 1:
Cyber Warfare: Arming Yourself
Protecting your assets is key to running a successful business. But in today's changing digital world, the threats to our assets are not as tangible as they used to be. With more and more businesses using cloud networks and online tools, protecting those assets is just as important. This panel will walk through the tools and techniques available to business to augment cyber security, increase business resiliency, and protect your online assets.
Michael Argast, Director of National Product Management and Solutions, TELUS Security
Additional panellists to be announced
SESSION 2:
Cyber Security as a Competitive Advantage
Understanding how to protect your online assets is one thing. Using your protected assets as a competitive advantage is another. Learn from field experts on how implementing increased cyber security measures can make your company stand out in your industry.
James Moore, Senior Business Advisor, Dentons
Pook-Ping Yao, Chief Executive Officer, Optigo Networks
Additional panellists to be announced
AFTERNOON KEYNOTE:
Andy Liuzzi
Privacy and Security Group: Crisis Lead, Edelman
Hacking, Hijacking and Heresy: The New World Order
In today's business environment, companies are increasingly at risk of cyber-attacks that can carry tremendous financial costs and threaten the loss of customers, suppliers, partners, investors, trade secrets, employees, competitive advantage, and, ultimately, their reputations and license to operate.
When subject to a cyber-attack, businesses must ensure they have protocols and processes in place to mobilize quickly, and ensure that communications is fully connected to their IT, legal and operations departments. Companies often overlook the critical importance of communications for engaging and addressing stakeholder concerns, as well as mitigating direct and indirect top and bottom line reputational and business risk. The new media landscape, with increased usage of digital and social media platforms, along with the rise of citizen journalism and activism, has drastically increased the speed, scope and severity with which a breach can damage a company's operations and its most valuable asset – its reputation.
Sponsorship opportunities are available. Please email sponsorship@boardoftrade.com
or call 604-640-5484 for more information.