Stephanie Gauthier (she/her)
Manager, NC3 Implementation Team, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Stephanie Gauthier has spent most of her career working in the RCMP across many operational and enterprise services. Ensuring proper alignment of resources for federal spending, establishing sound governance mechanisms and developing teams to drive client service have been her areas of greatest interest. Her most recent role with the National Cybercrime Coordination Centre is where she leads digital product development to support law enforcement activities. Of late, her focus is in transition management, Agile software development, striking meaningful conversations around cybersecurity in enterprise solutions and employing Design Thinking strategies to drive cultural change.
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Building cyber resilience: Challenges and opportunities facing Canada's digital transformation
Every day, institutions in Canada fall victim to cyber attacks. For many of those institutions, recovering from data breaches is a difficult and costly path. For example, it took over six months for the Toronto Public Library to recover from its 2023 ransomware attack, and the recovery costs were estimated at nearly $1 million. The City of Hamilton was also hit by a ransomware attack in February 2024, and was See More.