Cybersecurity Financial Services Summit: Toronto

October 23-24, 2025 | Virtual

On Demand Through October 24, 2025

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As Canadian financial institutions accelerate AI adoption, expand digital ecosystems and face rising regulatory pressure, security leaders must deliver resilient, adaptive strategies. The 2025 Toronto Financial Services Cybersecurity Summit will bring together senior cybersecurity executives, regulators and risk leaders to address these challenges. Sessions will spotlight priorities from agentic AI and autonomous threat response to deepfake-enabled fraud, cyber insurance disputes, regulatory alignment and real-time intelligence in fraud prevention. Attendees will gain insights to shape effective, future-ready cybersecurity strategies in Canada’s fast-evolving financial sector.

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Priya Mouli

Head of Information Security and Compliance, Sheridan College

Sunil Chand

CISO, VP, Centrilogic

Imran Ahmad

Partner/Canadian Head of Technology, Norton Rose Fulbright

Ruth Promislow

Partner, Bennett Jones LLP

Neal Jardine

Chief Cyber Intelligence and Claims Officer, BOXX Insurance Inc.

Denny Prvu

Director of Architecture: Innovation and Technology, Fortune 500 Financial Services Company

Carl Montreuil

Director, Federal Policing Criminal Operations - Cybercrime, Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Goran Novkovic

Director, Industrial Cybersecurity, Toronto Transit Commission

June Leung

Director Identity and Access Management, Mackenzie Investments

Priya Mouli

Head of Information Security & Compliance, Sheridan College

Deniz Hanley

Canada CISO & Head of Technology Risk, Morgan Stanley

Gennady Duchovich

Head of Cybersecurity, Haventree Bank

Elena Carroll

CISO, Davies Ward Philips & Vineberg LLP

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Agenda

Given the ever-evolving nature of cybersecurity, the agenda will be continually updated to feature the most timely and relevant sessions.

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM ET

Opening Remarks

9:00 am - 9:30 aM ET

Agentic AI and Autonomous Threat Response in Financial Services

This session will highlight real use cases where autonomous agents have been deployed in SOC environments, fraud analytics and policy enforcement, and will explore how banks are building guardrails around AI autonomy.
 
Key Discussion Points:
 
  • Deploying autonomous threat-hunting agents in Canadian SOCs;
  • AI agents in fraud detection and payment anomaly recognition;
  • Ethical and operational challenges of letting AI act independently;
  • How financial institutions are building governance frameworks around autonomous AI tools.
 
 

Denny Prvu

Director of Architecture: Innovation & Technology, Fortune 500 Financial Services Company

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM ET

Secure AI 2025: Lessons We've Learned

As a result, the term “Secure AI” has new meanings as well. In this session, Anton Chuvakin, security advisor at Google Cloud, shares insights on:

  • The AI security issues we should be discussing in 2026;
  • Lessons learned over the past three years;
  • Today’s practical and effective AI use cases.

Vaibhav Bhadauria

CISO, Total Credit Recovery

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM ET

Securing the Financial Supply Chain

Recent breaches tied to upstream vendors and managed service providers have revealed critical blind spots. This session explores how institutions are embedding third-party risk into security strategy, auditing cloud providers and driving accountability across the digital supply chain. 

Key Discussion Points:

  • Lessons from recent third-party or cloud-related incidents impacting financial institutions;
  • Continuous monitoring vs. point-in-time assessments of vendor risk;
  • Ensuring data residency and sovereignty across multi-cloud; environments
  • Embedding third-party risk into contract language and exit strategies.

Vaibhav Bhadauria

CISO, Total Credit Recovery

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM ET

Lonely at the Top: How to Prepare for That CISO Role

But it also comes with a target painted squarely on your back. Who’s to blame when the organization gets breached? Who is potentially legally liable for a security lapse, and who might be the sole executive prosecuted if that worst-case scenario comes true?

Not a dream, not a hoax, not an imaginary story. This is reality for today’s top security leaders. And in this exclusive fireside chat, veteran security leader Sunil Chand opens up on what he looks for in his next CISO opportunity – questions to ask, answers to seek and red flags that make him walk away.

Key Discussion Topics:

  • What does it take to earn that seat at the table – the skills and experiences?
  • What’s your coverage – who has your back – if you’ve done all the right things and still get breached?
  • What’s the reporting relationship – and what does that mean regarding access to senior leaders and the board?

Sunil Chand

CISO - VP, Centrilogic

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET

Cyber Resilience by Design: Incident Response and Recovery in Financial Services

As ransomware tactics evolve and destructive payloads target core financial infrastructure, Canadian institutions are doubling down on cyber resilience strategy.
 
This panel will explore how to align incident response planning with enterprise risk, integrate simulations and crisis testing, and partner with internal and external teams to accelerate recovery timelines.
 
Key Discussion Points:
 
  • How Canadian financial institution’s are aligning incident response planning with OSFI guidelines and business continuity plan requirements;
  • What resilience testing looks like in practice (e.g., simulations, tabletops, red/blue teams);
  • Integrating threat intel into response playbooks;
  • Communicating with regulators, customers and internal stakeholders during crisis recovery.

Imran Ahmad

Partner/Canadian Head of Technology, Norton Rose Fulbright

Ruth Promislow

Partner, Bennett Jones LLP

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM ET

Cyber Insurance Deep Dive: Navigating Coverage, Claims and the Changing Risk Landscape

This session will explore how Canadian underwriters are approaching coverage in 2026, what it takes to avoid exclusions, and how security leaders are rethinking the value of cyber insurance in light of recent claim denials and market shifts.
 
Backed by real-world experience from a seasoned security executive, this conversation will examine what’s changing – and what boards need to understand – about risk transfer in a climate of rising breach costs and insurer skepticism.
 
Key Discussion Points:
 
  • How Canadian insurers are evaluating security maturity and incident response plans in 2026;
  • What insurers are looking for in claims today and how clients and brokers can work together to meet expectations;
  • How to align cyber insurance with security investments for maximum impact;
  • Strategies to help boards see cyber insurance as a component – not a substitute – for robust security.
 

Neal Jardine

Chief Cyber Intelligence and Claims Officer, BOXX Insurance Inc. 

Karen Continenza

Senior Vice President and Cyber Claims Specialist, Marsh & McLennan Companies

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm et

Deepfake-Enabled Fraud: Hardening the Human Layer in Financial Institutions

In 2024, attackers impersonated executives via deepfake video to steal $25 million from a global firm, sparking alarm across the financial sector.
 
This session looks ahead to how threat actors are evolving these tactics in 2025, and what Canadian banks are doing to counter them – including controls at the human, technical and process levels.
 
Key Discussion Points:
 
  • Anatomy of recent deepfake-enabled financial fraud cases;
  • Detection strategies: voice biometric failsafes and AI-based validation;
  • Employee awareness programs in the age of synthetic media;
  • Preparing for future deepfake variants across audio, video and text.

Priya Mouli

Head of Information Security and Compliance, Sheridan College

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