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Board members have oversight responsibility for the organizations they lead, including ensuring an appropriate cybersecurity strategy. 

Join us to hear Michael Doucet talk about:

  • How cybersecurity strategy combines multiple layers of security
  • What a cyber event means to board members
  • The potential costs and impacts of a cyber event
  • Ways your boards can mitigate the risk
  • What kind of reporting should you expect from management (clear, concise, memorable)

Panellist

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Michael Doucet

Executive Director, Office of the CISO
 

Michael Doucet

Executive Director, Office of the CISO
 
Michael Doucet brings more than 30 years of cybersecurity and information management leadership experience to his current role. As an executive director and executive advisor in the Office of the CISO at Optiv, Doucet uses his past and present experiences to assist public and private enterprises in planning, creating, and executing security strategies. Doucet uses his vast information security expertise to lead organizations toward a proactive approach to threat intelligence, third-party risk management, governance and compliance, and incident management.
 
As an expert in cybersecurity and information management, Doucet’s broad business and operational knowledge span multiple disciplines, including change management, IT service continuity management, capacity management, availability management, service-level management, service asset and configuration management, information security management, defense in depth incident management, vulnerability management, and policy and standard development.
 
Prior to Optiv, Doucet built, managed, and oversaw program, security, and technology initiatives in the Canadian Federal Government. As the executive director of the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), Doucet independently reviews the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) on operations and complaints accountable to the Canadian Parliament in matters of Canadian national security. He was previously responsible as the chief technology officer (CTO) and then chief information officer (CIO), for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Before leading the RCMP in information management, Doucet was the CIO/director general of the Information Management Services Branch at Correctional Service Canada. Doucet has also worked with the Communications Security Establishment of Canada (CSEC), where he represented Canada as CSEC’s senior cryptologic liaison officer to the National Security Agency (NSA).
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Moderator

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Karen Smith

C.Dir

Karen Smith

C.Dir

Karen Smith is the Chief Executive Officer of Better Business Bureau of Saskatchewan Inc. Karen brings a wealth of experience and a commitment to lifelong learning. She is a member of the Board of Directors for Access Communications Co-operative, the New Home Warranty Program of Saskatchewan, and the Regina Community Clinic Cooperative. She serves on the Saskatchewan Chapter of the Institute of Corporate Directors and is a member of the Leaders Council at the Hill & Levene Schools of Business, University of Regina.
 
Karen has both the C.Dir (Chartered Director Program through McMaster University and the DeGroote School of Business) and CTAJ (Certified Tribunal Administrative Justice through the Foundation of Administrative Justice, Alta.) designations and is accredited as a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist through Dalhousie University.
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