Risking the Enterprise - New Approaches to Identifying and Managing Information Security Risk in your Business

When: May, 17th 2007 (12:00 noon) Where: Terminal City Club (837 West Hastings St.) Cost: $35 non-members, $25 ISSA members, and $20 students RSVP: (space is limited)

The first and most important step in securing your system is understanding your system; the assets you possess and what the risks are to those assets. In ever more dynamic and changing systems, this can often be a challenging and difficult process. In this session we will compare traditional quantitative techniques with qualitative ones, where subject matter experts can rapidly identify risks based on their knowledge and experience. Once we have explored the risk assessment techniques, we will identify how they can be rapidly applied to Canadian businesses and other organizations using freely available tools

Robert Beggs is the founder CEO of Digital Defence. As leader of Canada's leading incident response and forensics consultancy, he has served clients in the banking, insurance, brokerage, and mortgage industries, as well as small and medium enterprises from a variety of market verticals.
He has been responsible for the technical leadership and project management of more than 200 consulting engagements, including policy development and review, standards compliance attack and penetration testing of wired and wireless networks, third party security assessments, incident response, and other consulting projects.
Before working as a Senior Consultant to one of Canada's largest financial institutions, Robert was employed by Netigy, a global network and security infrastructure firm based in San Jose.
Robert teaches Information Security at Ryerson University and is also the lead instructor for Digital Defence, providing instruction in ethical hacking, incident response, and data forensics. Robert is a founder and proud sponsor of the Toronto Area Security Klatch, TASK.
He holds the MBA in Science and Technology from Queen's University, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and a Certified Information Systems Auditor.

The ISSA would like to thank Digital Defence for providing ISSA with funds we will use in our
Outreach and Education programs

On-site registration and networking begins at noon, and lunch will be served at approximately 12:15. The presentation will run from 1:00pm to 2:00pm, to be followed by an open discussion forum. Members and non-members of the ISSA are welcome but space is limited. Cost for the event is $35.00 for non-members, $25.00 for ISSA members and $20.00 for students payable in advance at our web site using Paypal®, or at the door in cash or by cheque payable to “ISSA Vancouver”. RSVP to to guarantee your seat. Please note that we require 72 hours notice of any cancellations, or you will be invoiced for the event since we are required to finalize the food orders.

Please note that the TCC has a business-casual dress code, and contact us in advance if you have special dietary requirements or would like wheel chair accessible parking so that we can make the necessary arrangements on your behalf.

Contact:
James Crooks: (604) 806-7027.