Network Security Monitoring and the Internet of Things.
On May 31st join the Ottawa ISC2 chapter for our next event - a presentation and discussion evening with Alexander Zakharov and Jacob Heilik two area security professionals with more than 55 years of experience in the field.
As a late addition, Robert Smith from Phirelight will be joining us for a short presentation introducing Cyber Threat hunting and how a tool like Phirelight's rapidPHIRE can assist with cyber threat hunting to combat the growing sophistication of modem cyber attacks. By combining human investigations with automated detection network security professionals can get a leg up on their adversaries.
The presenters:
Alexander Zakharov
With more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunication, information technology and IT security field Alexander was responsible for the creation and deployment of solutions protecting networks, systems and information assets for organizations in both the private and public sector. He has developed IT security policies, standards, guidelines and procedures; conducted compliance audits of IT operations, application systems, reviews of backup and recovery plans; evaluated and assessed secure encrypted voice communications and infrastructure, and performed security threat and risk assessments of IT facilities, IT infrastructure, application systems and communications.
Alex has a Masters in Science in Mechanics with Majors in Robotics, Cybernetics and Automated Control Systems, and holds certifications CISSP, ISSAP, CAP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CEH, PI, EMCDSA, ITIL, COBIT.
Jacob Heilik
Jacob worked 35 years in law enforcement (regulatory compliance and criminal investigation) with the Canadian Federal Government. The last ten years of his career were spent learning and practicing digital forensics - searching and seizing in the field, analyzing in the lab, and managing a talented team of examiners and analysts. Since retiring from public service in 2009, Jacob has concentrated his efforts on improving digital forensic skills in law enforcement. He has helped to train officers from around the world, being involved with projects sponsored by Interpol, Europol, the European Cybercrime Training and Education Group, and University College Dublin.
Robert Smith
Currently a Security Solutions Architect and in charge of the vSOC at Phirelight Security Solutions Inc., Rob Smith has been a member of the networking security community for over 15 years. Rob began his career with Jetnet Inc. as a firewall/VPN technician in a managed security services environment. As Jetnet was acquired by Bell the scope of security offerings increased, Rob specialized in firewall and VPN technologies and branched out to IDS/IPS, data loss prevention, anti-DDoS, URL filtering, SIEM, and incident management practices. As a former CISSP Rob has been a mentor and strong proponent of proactive security approaches to protecting network assets. Now with Phirelight Security Solutions, Rob’s focus is moving away from legacy protection technologies and toward next generation strategies to combat the growing sophistication of modern network security threats.
