Is the cloud secure? with CISO from Insurity, Jay Wilson

10 Questions to Cyber Resilience

Assurance IT invited Insurity's CISO, Jay Wilson to discuss SaaS platform, cloud security and data privacy.

In this episode, Jay Wilson from Insurity and co-founder of Assurance IT, Luigi Tiano, discuss:

1. Pros and cons of SaaS platforms
2. Should hardware be back on-prem?
3. Cloud security: Is it where it needs to be?
4. Are security risks between cloud and on-prem similar?
5. How to backup SaaS applications
6. Difficulty of complying with data privacy regulations from around the world
7. Are the Data privacy regulations make us better?

Resources:

Watch the episode: https://youtu.be/a8YWmt-QcVU

Jay Wilson’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaywwilson/

Luigi Tiano’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigitiano/

Assurance IT Website: http://www.assuranceit.ca/

About Jay Wilson:

As an experienced technology executive across multiple disciplines and sectors, Jay leads operations, delivery and strategy across global cross-discipline teams to produce and protect innovative products, growth strategies and measurable results.

In his role of Chief Information Security Officer at Mercury Healthcare, he is responsible for advancing the information security and compliance program, ensuring our business operations and client-facing product technologies are safe from attack, exceed regulatory standards and protect the critically important protected health data assets that Mercury Healthcare manages for over 1000 hospitals. Additionally he lead our efforts to align to industry leading compliance and security frameworks, including HITRUST certification of the Mercury Patient Engagement Solution / CRM. Further, he also leads and directs the IT function at Mercury Healthcare to improve the efficacy, efficiency and effectiveness of IT/Helpdesk functions within the organization.

He is CISM, CHP and CSCS certified and has over 20 years of experience in various technology development and leadership roles. Also a graduate of SapientNitro's CMTO University program, with a background as a professional marketing technologist and a consummate student of innovation and psychology, he focuses additional effort on the potential of people in the world of business+technology convergence. He has previously led (at Healthgrades) the Learning Academy program, part of HG's previous leadership development program, to help grow our people in communication, leadership and creating impact.

His experiences in technologies are broad and diverse, but he has had the privilege of working in: Security Infrastructure, Network Engineering, Automation Engineering, Advertising Technologies, Data Engineering, Distributed Computing, Professional Video, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Containers, Front End Web Technologies, Server-side Technologies, Microservices & API Development.

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About Assurance IT:

Assurance IT (www.assuranceit.ca) specializes in data protection and data privacy for the mid-market in Canada, since 2011. The Montreal-based company’s unique approach to helping customers become cyber resilient is called the PPR Methodology which stands for Prepare, Protect and Recover. Based on industry best practices, the PPR Methodology is an easier way to achieve cyber security and compliance objectives.