Speaker:  Dr. Mandeep Pannu, Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Cyber Security awareness is one of the most important aspects that a business must handle in their day to day operations. Small to medium size businesses are especially at risk as they often do not have the proper funding, knowledge, or training to proect themselves from cyber security vulnerabilities. Any technical defense measure would be useless if the entire staff is not cyber-aware. Increasingly we see large organizationis suffer from coordinated, complex and damaging attacks. Just like us, criminals also enjoy the advances that technology brings to society. As devices become more and more sophisticated and interconnected, so do the cybercrime that can be committed using them. Most of the users think that cyber security is the responsibility of the IT and security team. One of the main goals of this presentation is to emphasize why cybersecurity matters to everyone, whether you are working as a faculty, students, university staff or administrators. This activity will discuss and demonstrate how technology becomes vulnerable to cybercrime and how hackers exploit technological systems.

Dr. Mandeep Pannu has MSc and PhD in Computer Science from Coventry University, UK. Currently, she is working as a Lecturer at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and as an Assistant Professor at University of Fraser Valley. Previously, she worked as a Lecturer at Coventry University. She has been involved in Teaching and Research in Higher Education for over ten years. Dr. Pannu serves on programme committee and advisory committee of many international conferences and journals. She has supervised to completion one PhD student in Intrusion Detection System. From 2007-2014, she was involved in a number of projects to introduce innovative teaching, learning and assessment methods in Cyber Security in Digital Forensic. Also, over this period, she was involved in a number of real world problem solving consultation activites. Since 2014, Dr. Pannu worked on a number of Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise Network projects in collaboration with Industry to develop high-tech solutions relating to data recovery apps, big data analytics for businesses, IOT and Dark web. In the past few years, Dr. Pannu has developed a number of Courses which include Computer Security, System Security, Ethical Hacking, Data Security, Digital Forensic, and Web and Cloud Security. Her main research interests are in the area of Big data, IOT, Cyber Security and Digital  Forensic.