Where I've worked, studied, and spoken

Talks

Selected speaking engagements — slides, recordings, and writeups where available.

  1. 2026-11

    SuriCon Lisbon

    SuriCon · Lisbon, Portugal

    Suricata user community's annual conference, hosted in Lisbon.

  2. 2025-11-19

    Modern Techniques for Visibility and Detection in the Cloud

    SuriCon · Montreal, Canada

    Cloud visibility and detection techniques delivered at the Suricata user community's annual conference.

  3. 2025-08-11

    Navigating Multi-Cloud Challenges

    ILTACON · Washington, USA

    Multi-cloud operating model and security challenges for legal-industry IT leaders.

  4. 2024-11-20

    A Comparison of Security Monitoring Approaches

    ILTACON · Webinar, Remote

    Comparative analysis of security monitoring approaches for legal-industry technology teams.

    Event page

  5. 2024-08-12

    Security Monitoring Approaches by MDR Providers

    ILTACON · Nashville, USA

    How MDR providers actually approach security monitoring — strengths, tradeoffs, and evaluation criteria.

  6. 2022-10-06

    The State of Packet Capture in a Hybrid Infrastructure

    Black Hat Toronto (SecTor) · Toronto, Canada

    Where packet capture earns its keep — and where it stops scaling — across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid network footprints.

    Event page

Conferences I follow

Communities and events I actively track — where the working conversations happen.

SecTor (Black Hat Toronto)

Canadian security flagship.

RSA Conference

Where the industry meets to talk shop at scale.

ILTACON

Legal-industry IT and security community.

SuriCon

Suricata user and developer community.

Bikes and Hikes

Small-format practitioner gathering.

Ski and Snowboard

Winter practitioner gathering.

atl.sec.con

Atlantic Canada community-run security conference.

ot.sec.con

Operational-technology and ICS security conference.