Steven Ross
Mr. Ross is Executive Principal of Risk Masters International and holds certification as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) as well as a Master Business Continuity Professional (MBCP) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). Mr. Ross is a specialist in the field of information systems security and control, specializing in Information Security, Business Continuity Management, and IT Disaster Recovery Planning services. He has implemented Information Security programs for numerous banks, government agencies and industrial corpo¬rations. Prior to founding Risk Masters, Mr. Ross was a Director and global practice leader with Deloitte & Touche.
In consulting engagements, he specializes in planning, policy development, implementation, and standardization of Information Security processes. In recent years, his focus has been on prevention, detection and recovery from the technical and business impact of cyberattacks. He is editor of the multi-volume series, e-Commerce Security, and author of several of the books in the series, including e-Commerce Security: Public Key Infrastructure. He has recently published Creating a Culture of Security. Since 1998, Mr. Ross has regularly published the column, “IS Security Matters”, in the ISACA Journal.
Robert Parker
Robert Parker has been involved in information technology and computer security and control for over 40 years. He was a Partner at Deloitte & Touche with national responsibility for the firm’s Personal Information Privacy practice. He was the CICA representative on an ISO Personal Information Privacy Committee. He is also a member of the Security and Privacy sub- committee of the Canadian eBusiness Initiative. Mr. Parker was President of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association.
He is a founding member of the AICPA-CICA joint Canada - United States Enterprise-Wide Privacy Task Force which has developed principles and guidelines to provide a framework for assessing compliance with privacy legislation. In that group he had responsibility for developing their Privacy Maturity Model. He is a past chair of the CICA’s Privacy Advisory Group which promotes privacy amongst businesses and professionals in Canada. He has authored a number of articles and books, including three books on microcomputers published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., four books on Year 2000, and he was the Project Director on the CICA publication Information Technology Control Guidelines.