Alumni Café: The Canadian Cyber Security Landscape
The Woodsworth College Alumni Association invites you to a virtual Alumni Café lecture featuring Sami Khoury speaking on "The Canadian Cyber Security Landscape."
In this session, Mr. Khoury will provide a comprehensive overview of the current cyber security landscape in Canada, exploring both the challenges and opportunities inherent in safeguarding digital assets.
Attendees will gain valuable insights into effective cyber security best practices and hear about the importance of both public and private sector partnering to developing a robust cyber security ecosystem capable of responding to emerging threats and challenges.
Additionally, this lecture will highlight Canada's efforts in fostering innovation and collaboration in the field of cyber security.
Safeguarding Canada's digital future is a collective responsibility in which everyone plays a crucial role in ensuring cyber security.
Sami Khoury
Sami Khoury is the Head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, part of the Communications Security Establishment (CSE). The Cyber Centre is the single unified source of expert advice, guidance, services and support on cyber security for government, critical infrastructure owners and operations, the private sector and the Canadian public. Sami began his career at CSE in 1992 as a research engineer and over the years has held various management positions and leadership roles at CSE more recently as CSE’s CIO. Sami is a graduate of Concordia University with a Masters of Applied Science. He also completed a certificate program in Public Sector Leadership. Sami was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 and the APEX Award of Excellence for Innovation in 2020.