The Twin Cities have continued to become a hot spot for tech entrepreneurs seeking to solve complex problems as Start-Up Week Twin Cities recently reaffirmed. Two such companies with unique cyber-security tech approaches, Abstract Forward Consulting and LegacyArmour.com, will address how SMB business owners of all types can measure and mitigate growing cyber risk to beat the competition. Independent CISO/CIO consultant Doug Hahn will round out the two fiery founders. Club leader and financier Rick Brimacomb will moderate.
Register for the Thurs 11/01/18 11:15 a.m. luncheon at the Minneapolis Club here.
See the bios of these three-panel members below:
1) Jeremy Swenson has worked or consulted at 10 organizations in 7 industries on progressively complex and difficult problems in business technology including: proj. mgmt., business analysis, data archival and governance, audit, web application launch and decommission, strategy, information security, data loss prevention, and board governance. Overall his work can be tied to nearly a billion dollars of savings. He is the founder of Abstract Forward Consulting, a cybersecurity, process improvement, and change management consultancy. He has an MBA from Saint Mary’s University of MN and an (MSST) Master’s degree in security technologies from the University of Minnesota.
2) Doug Hahn CISSP, is an IT executive with a demonstrated history of working in information technology departments in a variety of industries. He is skilled in IT management, business process, requirements analysis, enterprise architecture, requirements gathering, IT security and agile methodologies. He was the CISO and CTO of Healthtel, now Revel. Prior to that, he was SVP of Enterprise Architecture at Ceridian. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional. He is a strong entrepreneurial professional who has advised many small businesses on cybersecurity. He has a BS focused in Mathematics from University of Wisconsin.
3) Sahar Ismail has a degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Security Technologies (MSST) from the University of Minnesota. She has strong experience in leadership, Healthcare, Education, Finance, Service Oriented Architecture, Project Management, and International Commerce. She has been the leader of a multinational team, a team lead for a nationwide cloud solution, and a Manager of Enterprise Architecture for one of the largest online education providers. She has 20 years of hands-on IT experience, is business savvy, multi-lingual, and is the driving force behind the creation of Legacyarmour.com as CEO and Co-Founder. LegacyArmour is an award-winning legacy planning platform powered by an Artificial Intelligence engine where you organize your important assets in encrypted vaults to have it automatically delivered to designated recipients based on date, death or incapacitation.
If your not interested yet, here are eight reasons why small to medium business are increasingly targeted for cyber attacks which could put them out of business fast – we aim to solve for these issues:
1) They have no or small IT dept.
2) They are less likely to follow internet security best practices.
3) They have simple networks and systems – often default configurations.
4) They use the cloud often.
5) Use third party software with little dependency knowledge.
6) They have big data most of which is not encrypted.
7) They are heads down in their business.
8) They have no incident response plan / tabletop exercises done.
Register for the Thurs 11/01/18 11:15 a.m. luncheon at the Minneapolis Club here.