Darrin Nowakowski Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Cyber Security Leader for an Iconic Canadian News Service.
• Established a Governance Framework, Security Strategy and 3 year-roadmap.
• Developed Security KPIs and reported on progress to Executive Leadership and at Board Meetings.
• Continually stay current by liaising with external agencies and the vendor community and updating new enterprise information security and IT risk management programs, policies and technologies to address latest threats.
• Measurably Reduced employee rate of susceptibility to phishing
• Applied a vulnerability management program reducing risk.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Supply Chain Security Prime, Province of Ontario --Supply Ontario. Providing for cyber security across the broader public sector – including government ministries, provincial agencies, hospitals, school boards.
• Created a risk management framework for platforms enabling multi-billions of dollars in procurement, ERP and analytics for the Province of Ontario including Health Care, Law Enforcement, Education and the Broader.
• Architected a zero-trust security model, significantly reducing the attack surface and improving the organization's overall security posture while working collaboratively with all departments to develop.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Building multi-line cyber security for risk management and resilience including operations, IAM, DLP, Architecture, Incident Response Teams while mentoring staff and ongoing C-Suite advisory at a high paced and.
• Established Threat Hunting as a proactive capability.
• Navigated the organization through a complex SOC 2 audit
• Established a data breach response plan that minimized downtime
• Communicated Security Risks to Executive Leadership by briefing senior executives on current and potential security risks, providing strategic insights for informed decision-making.
• Developed and reduced new cyber security KPIs and metrics

Montreal, Quebec, CA

Building and mentoring high quality teams while developing a talent pipeline through collaboration with Universities and institutes.Leading the successful delivery of cloud transitions and digital transformations including technology buying and evaluation process, vendor management, negotiating and collaborating with executives, legal and operations.

Montreal, Quebec, CA

With deep cloud experience (AWS, Azure and GCP), operations and investigations expertise Darrin built and directed evolving capabilities for a Global Managed Security Services Provider including DFIR, eDiscovery, Cyber Investigations, Threat Surface Reduction, Threat Hunting, Cyber Intelligence, Managed XDR, SOAR, Data Security and SOC automation. Major.

As the main client facing consultant Darrin has helped many customers see the full benefits of IT through security. Project and Program build expertise and solid knowledge of integrating Security and Privacy controls into Software and Service Development processes. Deep expertise in cloud, risk, policy and governance, Operations, Investigations, Mergers.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Strong focus on Canadian Tire Financial Services including Security Architecture, Big Data, New project integration and development for Financial Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Threat Intelligence, automation and robots for product distribution, private public and hybrid cloud, IoT, retail systems, mobile, Identity and Access.

Ontario, CA

Risk Management, Policy Development, Audit Lead.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Security Architecture and Assessment services for Card Products (Visa, Debit).Key deliverables included Threat Risk Assessments and audits for the Credit and Debit lines of business. Designed the Enterprise Vulnerability Management Program, Role Based Access Control rules, remote desktop security, firewall policies and Intrusion Detection Systems.

Toronto, ON, CA

Lead the design and vendor integration effort for 17 large-scale Payment Card Industry projects including Harris Bank (Chicago) web based payroll processing for large businesses, MasterCard transaction processing facilities (Non-Stop Computing environments), New Automated Bank Machine technologies as well as the first Chip Cards introduced in Canada..

Honours B.A., History

Computer Science