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Calgary, Ab, Ca

Western Canada

Cyderes (cyber-defense-and-response) provides best-in-class managed security services on a global scale, for the modern digital workforce. Born from the best of two award-winning cybersecurity companies, Herjavec Group and Fishtech Group, Cyderes provides the people, processes, and technology to manage risk, and detect and respond to any threats – in ways that are better, faster, more scalable, and more cost-effective than traditional in-house solutions.

Canada

Kyndryl Security & Resiliency provides the expertise, services and technologies that help enterprises keep their vital systems secure, available, reliable and recoverable – regardless of their size and complexity.Our integrated security and resiliency approach can help you mitigate comprehensive cybersecurity and operational resilience risks for heterogenous infrastructures, including physical, virtual and cloud environments, while supporting evolving compliance and audit needs.

Canada

With the industry’s broadest portfolio of consulting and global managed security services, IBM Security Services delivers industry-leading assessments and security strategies to many of the world’s largest enterprises, including critical strategies such as zero trust. As a trusted advisor, IBM Security Services can help you quantify and understand your risks, extend your team resources, help detect and respond to threats, and unify your organization on security priorities to accelerate your business transformation.

Dynamic IT entrepreneur Robert Herjavec founded Herjavec Group in 2003 to provide cybersecurity products and services to enterprise organizations. Herjavec Group delivers SOC 2 Type 2 certified managed security services supported by state-of-the-art, PCI compliant, Security Operations Centers, operated 24/7/365 by certified security professionals. This expertise is coupled with leadership positions across a wide range of functions including Security Consulting & Compliance, Professional Services, Identity and Privileged Access Management, and Incident Response. Herjavec Group has offices globally including across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

Calgary, Canada Area

Tanium gives the world's largest enterprises and government organizations the unique power to secure, control and manage millions of endpoints across the enterprise within seconds. Serving as the "central nervous system" for enterprises, Tanium empowers security and IT operations teams to ask questions about the state of every endpoint across the enterprise in plain English, retrieve data on their current state and execute change as necessary, all within seconds. With the unprecedented speed, scale and simplicity of Tanium, organizations now have complete and accurate information on the state of endpoints at all times to more effectively protect against modern day threats and realize new levels of cost efficiency in IT operations.Learn more at www.tanium.com

Calgary, Canada Area

At Herjavec Group, information security is what we do. Supporting your IT Security Lifecycle drives our business and your infrastructure’s protection is our only priority. We are an expert team of highly dedicated security specialists, supported by strategic and emerging technology partners, who are laser focused on information security for our enterprise customers.• Hired to build the Western Canada region with ZERO customers or presence and sold a managed services deal in the 1st 6 months.• Responsible for hunting and closing new business in Western Canada selling Managed Cyber Security Services including SaaS and top tier Cyber Security Technologies.

Responsible for all security sales in Calgary including, products, services and managed security. TELUS Security Solution launched in January 2007 raising awareness of security practices in Calgary and Southern Alberta. Achieved goals by sharing a working business understanding of security practices and developing business relationships with security and IT professionals based on decades of commitment.

Responsible for all security sales in Calgary including, products, services and managed security. • Security Solution Sales: Responsible for Calgary and surrounding area.• Proposals and RFP responses: Created proposal responses to clients, with a win rate exceeding 80%.• Exceeded Targets: Achieved 170% of plan in 2004, 210% in 2005 and 150% by September 2006.• Strategic Security Sales Planning: Responsible for the creation of strategic security sales planning for the region (Calgary), including planning sessions involving senior practice leaders and sales teams.• Deliverables to Customers: Responsible for the review and QA of all final reports and deliverables prior to delivery to the client.

Accountable for security consultation, risk management, strategy, vulnerability management, policy and standard creation, compliance, monitoring and operations of security tools.

Managed IBM Security Office at TransCanada Pipelines• Initiated and operated the first enterprise wide comprehensive Security Program for TransCanada including design and implementation of all security solutions:• Provided written security assessment reports highlighting findings, potential solutions and recommendations.• Prepared and implemented security policies and standards.• Implemented security tools including Network intrusion detection, AntiVirus, Enterprise Security Management and vulnerability scanning.• Provided assistance to TransCanada in meeting audit requirements.• Part of the team to provide builds on IBM Security programs• Enjoyed mentoring and coaching junior team members and being a part of the team.

Accountable for operating, maintaining and supporting various Unix operating systems.

Education record

Cissp, Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

CISSP Certification (27418) – International Information Systems Security Certification