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Topic: Information Security and Job Market Trends
Speaker:

Stewart Wolfe, CISA

 Senior Manager, IT Advisory Services – GTA Information Security Team leaderStewart Wolfe, KPMG LLP www.kpmg.ca

Experience: Stewart is a Senior Manager in the IT Advisory Services practice and leads both the Information Security and IT Asset Management & Software Compliance groups.  Stewart has over 16 years of experience in the IT industry as a consultant with 10 years specializing in IT Security services ranging from Identity Management, Ethical Hacking, Secure Messaging, Policy development and ISO 27002 security control reviews. Stewart has consulted for many years to Canada’s most well known financial companies, including CIBC (Mortgage and Commercial Banking), Bank of Nova Scotia, Royal Bank, TD Bank, Manulife Financial and Canadian Tire Financial Services.  Manulife Financial recently deployed globally a secure email solution that Stewart developed. Stewarts Identity Management experience ranges from architecture, business and technical requirements gathering, vendor selection and Role Based Access Control.  Stewart is currently working on a Role Based Access Control engagement for a very large manufacturing client.

Industry experience: Financial Services, Large Retail, Public Sector, Manufacturing, Insurance

Date: Saturday, September 19, 2009
Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location:

Toronto College of Tecnology Toronto Campus

Content:

Part 1: Career Management & the Technology Business

- Overview of Stewart’s career
- The changing technology landscape – the impact of globalization
- Skills that are in demand and are "outsource proof”
- Knowing the signs of when things are changing and how to manage your career path accordingly
- Who hires Information Security Professionals (Consultants, Full-time staff)


Part 2: Information Security – What is it and why is it important?

- Overview of Information Security – The field of the “Professionally Paranoid”
- Impact of security breaches
- Information Security trends and future forecasts
- Information Security certification and experience requirements
- KPMG Information Security team & methodologies
- KPMG Information Security clients and focus of the KPMG security offerings, the Information Security community – groups, conferences, information security resources

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