Business Continuity, Data Privacy, and Information Security: How do they link?

Considering the increased number of cyberattacks and the significant damage caused to the IT infrastructure, organizations should ensure that their efforts to secure IT operations are linked with efforts to maintain resiliency within organizations.

The webinar covers

• Cybersecurity during pandemic through statistics
• Attack trends during pandemic
• Mitigating steps to take
• Relevance of IT Disaster Recovery in the time of Cloud computing
• Achieving optimal alignment and efficiency regarding your ISMS, BCP, BIA and Risk Management efforts
• Post-pandemic cyber and privacy considerations
• BCP and pandemic scenario planning 'beyond COVID'
• How to keep your privacy policy and incident response plan actionable  
• How to keep your BCP short, sharp, up-to-date and user-friendly during an actual invocation

Presenters: 

Rinske Geerlings 

Rinske is an internationally known consultant, speaker and certified Business Continuity, Information Security & Risk Management trainer.

She was awarded Alumnus of the Year 2012 of Delft University, Australian Business Woman of the Year 2010-13 by BPW, Risk Consultant of the Year 2017 (RMIA/Australasia) and Outstanding Security Consultant 2019 Finalist (OSPAs)

Rinske has consulted to the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet, 15 Central Banks, APEC, BBC, Shell, Fuji Xerox, NIB Health Funds, ASIC, Departments of Defense, Immigration, Health, Industry, Education, Foreign Affairs and 100s of other public and private organizations across 5 continents.

She has been changing the way organizations ‘plan for the unexpected’. Her facilitation skills enable organizations to achieve their own results and simplify their processes. She applies a fresh, energetic, fun, practical, easy-to-apply, innovative approach to BCM, Security, Risk and DR... Topics often perceived as dull and cumbersome.

Her 'alter ego' includes being a lead singer in SophieG Music and contributing to the global charity playing For Change, which provides music education to children in disadvantaged regions.

Seyed Hejazi 

Seyed Hejazi is a Director in RSM Canada’s Security and Privacy Risk practice. Having more than 16 years of experience in Cybersecurity and I.T., Seyed possesses deep knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy risks, governance models, frameworks, technologies, and leading practices. Seyed’s knowledge of security operations, cyber threat intelligence, incident handling, digital forensics, and the cybersecurity related regulations has enabled him to help organizations transform their cybersecurity practices to protect confidentiality, preserve integrity and promote availability. Seyed holds a Master’s degree and designations including CISSP, PMP, GCIH, GREM, CFE. He teaches Cybersecurity courses at the University of Toronto.

Horia Tabatabaei Soltani

Horia Tabatabaei Soltani leads the privacy practice at RSM Canada. Trained as a privacy lawyer, Horia possess extensive knowledge on privacy governance, compliance and leading practices. With her expertise she has helped organizations establish and transform their privacy practice through supporting them on privacy risk management, breach notifications, vendor assessment and privacy gap analysis. She has guided organizations in embedding privacy by design in their systems and leveraging privacy for their business growth. Throughout her practice, which included running a privacy law firm, Horia has helped SMEs in various industries in understanding the Canadian privacy regime and how they can operate within other privacy jurisdictions. Horia holds a CIPP/C certification.

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