Speaker

Kashif Parvaiz is a seasoned cybersecurity executive with over 20 years of experience managing security programs for large private and public sector organizations in the Consulting, Energy, Education, and Healthcare sectors. Mr. Parvaiz is currently the Regional Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for a group of the largest hospitals in Ontario. In his career, Mr. Parvaiz has overseen the implementation of several successful enterprise-wide security awareness, vulnerability management, risk mitigation, security operations, and incident response programs. In addition, Mr. Parvaiz has developed, managed, and maintained detailed roadmaps to raise organizational cyber maturity levels. Mr. Parvaiz has reported to senior executives and board members regularly and has managed multi-million dollar portfolios. Mr. Parvaiz is an active member of the cyber community and has led thought leadership roundtable discussions for Gartner, IANS, and Forrester as well as delivered many keynote presentations at security conferences. Finally, Mr. Parvaiz holds multiple industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCISO, and CRISC as well as an MBA.