Case Study: The Role of Human Error in Information Security

It has become an established fact that the human factor is the most important element to secure in any organization if security is to be maintained. This case study will take real-life examples (with no names used!) and examine some actual security incidents caused by human error and elaborate on the root cause and prevention tips resulting from these events.

Main points covered:

• Incident detection
• Incident reporting
• Incident triage
• Lessons learned

Presenter:

Our presenter for this webinar will be  Anthony English, who is one of the top cybersecurity professionals in Atlantic Canada with extensive Canadian and International experience in cybersecurity covering risk assessment, management, mitigation, security testing, business continuity, information security management systems, architecture security reviews, project security, security awareness, lectures, presentations and standards-based compliance. He sits on the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) IT Security Techniques committee (MC/ ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC 27), the Disaster Recovery Institute Canada (DRIC) Certification Committee, Cloud Security Alliance committee on the security of health care data in the cloud and is an Exam Development Volunteer for ISC2. Anthony has worked in utilities, law enforcement, consulting, education, health care, lottery and gaming, auditing and the financial sector.

Organizer: Ardian Berisha

Date: June 27th, 2019