Vogel Cyber Leadership & Coaching

I bring my nearly 20 years of experience in the cybersecurity field and mix that with my authentic, genuine, and pragmatic approach to provide cyber security leadership and coaching to my clients!!!! 

I am a self-professed positive troll and I believe in the power of uplifting others through my coaching practice and encouraging my coaching clients to explore their hidden dimensions and unleash their inner awesomeness!!!

Let's have an EPIC friendship building convo today!!!

President

Cyber.sc

Providing practical people and process oriented cyber security advisory services to startups, investors, and small/midsize businesses. Cyber.SC specializes in providing cyber security management and expertise to financial service companies and law firms. Cyber.SC provides "on-demand" cyber security services that augment an organization's current capabilities in a way that is less costly and more effective than "traditional" advisory companies. We seek to create trust and not dependency among our clients.

Services include:

• Performing cyber security maturity assessments
• Completing security questionnaires on behalf of clients  
• Conducting security gap analysis
• Developing security remediation and strategic roadmaps
• Providing security leadership in the form of "CISO-as-a-service"

Founder & Chief Strategist

TEC Canada

Joining as part of TEC Canada’s speakers' group sharing cyber security and leadership expertise with executives across Canada.

Cyber Security Speaker Resource

Provincial Health Services Authority

• Developing legacy healthcare system (WinXP) containment strategy and architecture data roadmap
• Developing business case (and mitigation strategy) for protecting HealthCare applications and systems
• Supported a clear strategic and cost savings roadmap of over 2.5M / Annum 
• Performing risk assessments (STRAs) for the following projects:
          • Systems deployed during Children/Women's Hospital upgrade
          • Cerner platform upgrade

Senior Security Consultant (Contract)

Netcoins Inc.

• Provide insight and expert advice relating to cyber security and online operations. 
• Netcoins turns any device into a Bitcoin ATM for retail stores
• Netcoins does all the heavy lifting; stores don't need to maintain any cash or Bitcoin inventory

Internet Security & Operations

CU Training

Cyber security subject matter expert. Providing content and appearing in various security training mechanisms: 

• Webinars
• E-learning modules
• Videos

Cyber Security Evangelist

TELUS (BC Hydro)

Overall Responsibilities
• Chairing security assessment group informing stakeholders of pertinent vulnerabilities and threats  
• Developing threat intelligence strategy  
• Developing comprehensive vulnerability management program   
• Creating web security reports and providing actionable advice based on expert analysis
• Security operation centre (SOC) duties 

Strategic Initiatives
• Providing actionable security advice to BC Hydro stakeholders

Accomplishments
• Reducing average vulnerability remediation time by 20%
• Reducing average number of unpatched systems by over 35%

Senior Security Contractor - Vulnerability Management

First West Credit Union

Overall Responsibilities
• Leading and developing the strategic and tactical information security plans  
• Providing security thought leadership to CIO 
• Managing staff resources in security projects 
• Developing performance indicators relating to PCI & ISO 27001
• Delivering timely reports and metrics to executive management
• Serving as representative on Credit Unions of Canada Security Group

Strategic Initiatives
• Forging key business relationships as IT security business partner
• Creating and overseeing security incident response framework
• Delivering integrated SIEM solution 

Accomplishments
• Forming a positive organizational security culture
• Serving as a brand ambassador within the community
• Appearing as “rising star” in 2014 annual company report  
• Reducing staff phishing click rate from 40% to 3% resulting in $25,000 in indirect yearly savings

Information Security Business Leader

Grant Thornton LLP

Overall Responsibilities
• Performing compliance audits and gap assessments for clients
• Providing proactive mitigation recommendation reports
• Perform risk and threat assessment using industrial leading standards and frameworks

Strategic Initiatives
• Providing actionable advice to clients pertaining to data privacy practices, frameworks such as NIST, COBIT, ITIL, and ISO and compliance requirements like PCI, SOX, PIPEDA, SB-1386
• Conducting business impact assessments

Accomplishments
• Security audit lead on major provincial security program review

Senior Associate, Business Risk Services

Overall Responsibilities
• Performing risk assessments on new business initiatives
• Scouring the landscape for new threats to information security
• Reporting on security metrics and quarterly information risks
• Updating and maintaining documentation for all security controls and processes
• Developing policies, processes, and procedures as it relates to IT security 
• Performing regular audits to ensure security controls operating as intended

Strategic Initiatives
• Performing vulnerability assessments reducing risk exposure
• Developing information risk assessment framework for all business projects 
• Recommending controls to security infrastructure to address threat landscape 
• Establishing mechanism for detecting and investigating breaches in security 
• Establishing effective security awareness program for employees and members

Accomplishments
• Transforming IT security function into trusted advisor role
• Speaking throughout the community and engaging the public by raising security awareness

Security Analyst

Cyber Risk Advisor | Speaker | Coach | #CyberSecurityMatters Podcast Host | Positive Troll | Board Director

Who I am: Father, husband, and supportive friend. I'm a self-labeled positive troll making the world kinder one alliterative filled comment at a time. I post about positive life lessons. 

Who I am: I offer friendship and kindness. I want to be the positive energy in your life!!!!! I want to be your professional hype man!!!!

What I do: I provide actionable, pragmatic and strategic cyber risk management for small and midsize organizations.

What I do: I provide high ENERGY coaching sessions to individuals looking to explore their hidden dimensions and unleash their inner AWESOMENESS!!!!

What I do: Perform engaging, highly entertaining and inspiring talks on life, cyber security, and the power of leading with kindness!!! 

If you are still reading this and it resonates deep in the inner fibres of your soul then let's schedule an EPIC friendship building convo!!!! ➡️https://meet-with-dom-vogel.appointlet.com

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