Choose your own breach: An interactive approach to mitigating cyber threats within your firm - INTERN

Choose your own Breach: An Interactive Approach to Mitigating Cyber Threats within Your Firm

This webinar is part of the RAIC 2022 Virtual Conference on Architecture, now available to stream!

Topics: Practice / Business

Length: 1 hour | What's Included: Video, Quiz, and Certificate of Completion 

Cybersecurity is not an IT issue– it is a business issue and one that affects organizations of all shapes and sizes, including architectural firms. The cyber landscape is complex, with new cyber threats and actors emerging constantly. Regulatory changes, evolving technology, and people all contribute to an organization’s cyber readiness. To compound this, companies are now facing liability for significant penalties even when no data breach has occurred due to new compliance requirements dictating how sensitive data can be stored and used. With evolving data privacy regulations, firms must be aware of how they handle their clients’ personal data and the different regulations they are required to comply with. While it is easy to be overwhelmed by cybersecurity issues, prudent architectural professionals can avoid major financial and reputational losses with appropriate cyber due diligence and incident response frameworks. In this interactive session, participants will work through a live security breach most likely to affect architectural firms, leveraging incident response plans and mitigation strategies in real-time.

Learning Objectives:

By the completion of this session, participants will be able to:

• Define cybersecurity and their role in mitigating cyber threats.
• Explain the application of Incident Response Plans (IRPs).
• Outline the steps in the incident response life cycle.
• Identify the key stakeholders of an incident response team.

Subject Matter Expert:

Ryan Duquette is the Canadian lead for RSM Canada’s Security and Privacy Risk Consulting practice. A seasoned professional within the investigations and cybersecurity fields, Ryan focuses on litigation support, cyber incident response, privacy and cyber technology risks, digital forensics, and cyber fraud matters. Ryan has been an investigator for over 20 years and was previously a police officer focusing on cybercrime and fraud cases. He works closely with clients involved in workplace investigations and civil litigation matters, including intellectual property theft, human resources investigations and data breaches.