Description:

Personal privacy and the security of high sensitivity personal information is under attack every single day - whether from human error or malicious elements in our society with intent of personal gain at the expense of others.    •A truly successful social engineer gets you to provide the information and they never raise any suspicion about what they are doing.

This presentation will cover the following:

Speaker's Profile:

Francois van Heerden

Cluster Security Officer

Francois van Heerden has worked in the private sector (RBC Capital Markets / Dundee Wealth Management) as a security consultant and public sector (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Ministry of Government Services, and Ministry of Community and Social Services) in the information technology for over 25 years. He built his first computer - a Heathkit H89 and learned CP/M, Wordstar and Visicalc and while working for VIA Rail embarked on learning the earliest of the IBM PC technologies. Yes, he is sufficiently old to remember 8" floppy disks! He taught continuing education courses at Seneca College (WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, Introduction to PCs) and authored their first networking course.

He is currently the Cluster Security Officer with the Information Management and Architecture Branch, Ministry of Community and Social Services and responsible for providing security guidance for significant projects such as Ontario Works, the Family Responsibility Office, and the Ontario Disability Support Program. Francois is responsible for all aspects of security from developing policy guidance, security awareness, investigations, some aspects of business continuity and disaster recovery. He has deployed such tools as web content filtering (Websense), IDS / IPS (Sourcefire) and other enterprise level technologies . For the last ten years he has focused on the security environment and bringing security awareness to people in an entertaining and informative way. Francois has presented at Showcase Ontario on such topics as "Identity Theft", "Social Engineering: The Dark Art of Persuasion", "Threats on the Internet" and "Your Digital Trail" to audiences numbering up to 800. Francois is entirely self-educated in security: he challenged the CISSP exam and was successful on first writing.

On a personal note, Francois has been very busy doing presentations on astronomy at libraries, schools, and in the provincial parks (Algonquin, Sibbald Point, Balsam lake, and Port Burwell) for the International Year of Astronomy. He is engaged in learning astro-videography using his Celestron Nexstar 11" GPS and MallinCam and uses those tools for public education with his hobby.

Registration:

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Cost:

CIPS Members: FREE

Other(s): $10.00 for each session (CIPS IT Management SIG meetings are normally held on every second Monday of each month), please visit

Refreshments: Coffee/Water/Assorted Cookies