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THOUGHTS ON CYBER WARFARE

Holly-Dale Monych, CSFI Canadian Fellow

Holly-Dale CSFI Fellow

CSFI Canada

Holly-Dale Monych, MCSE, MCDBA
Western Canadian Government, Corporate Executive Learning Consultant
CSFI Canadian Fellow

Holly-Dale avows that ‘Training is Always Cheaper than a Breach’. As an award winning business development leader with Global Knowledge, she has accumulated over 15 years of corporate training, curriculum development, and learning consulting experience; specifically in the areas of Cybersecurity & Privacy, Digital Risk Management, Agile Transformation, Business and IT Alignment, Business Analysis, Project Management, and Digital Leadership Skills.

In her roles as the Executive Training and Development Learning Advisor for the Canadian Government’s Western Region, Holly-Dale is currently developing Security and Privacy programs for Canada’s Provincial Government employees and working on IT readiness training solutions for the Royal Mounted Police and the Canadian Department of National Defense. These initiatives are critical learning paths to ensure that technical teams and end users alike know how to respectively shield their organizations from the increased risk of cyber warfare attacks.

As CSFI’s Fellow in Canada, Holly-Dale is excited to evangelize the CSFI Mission to expand Cyber Warfare awareness through education and training. She believes that collaboration and knowledge-sharing is the most effective way to ensure that intelligence grows exponentially in the Cyber Warfare domain.

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Bio

Dr. Paul de Souza is the founder of the Cyber Security Forum Initiative (CSFI). Dr. de Souza has over 20 years of cybersecurity experience. He is faculty at George Washington University and has worked as the Chief Security Engineer for AT&T, where he designed and approved secure networks for MSS (Managed Security Services). Dr. de Souza also worked as a security engineer for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and U.S. Robotics. He has consulted for several governments, military organizations, and private institutions across the globe. He served as a Federal Director of Training and Education for Norman Data Defense Systems.

Dr. de Souza serves as a CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence & Organized Crime Research) Visiting Researcher at Sheffield Hallam University, U.K., and as a Guest Lecturer at the Swedish Defence University (SEDU) Försvarshögskolanand; former Institute of World Politics Board of Advisors for the Cyber Intelligence Initiative (Ci2) in Washington, D.C.; and served as an Advisor for the MCPA (Military Cyber Professionals Association). He is a Cyber SME NATO Instructor and an Order of Thor Medal recipient.

He is a Negev Hi-Tech Faculty Startup Accelerator Advisor for Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and an Advisory Board member at IntellCorp (Lisbon, Portugal – Counter-Terrorism/Counter-Intelligence/Cyber). He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel (INSS) – Cyber Security and Military & Strategic Affairs Programs. He has completed the Executive Program in Counter-Terrorism Studies from the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya in Israel. He is also a Cybersecurity Exec Ed alum at Harvard Kennedy School. He serves as an American Public University Ambassador, a Cybersecurity Programs Advisory Board Member at Capitol Technology University, and a Professor of Cyber Threat Intelligence at The University of Georgia, Tbilisi.

Dr. de Souza has a master’s degree in National Security Studies (M.A.) with a concentration in Terrorism from American Military University, West Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Critical Infrastructure from Capitol Technology University, Maryland

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