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Making the World a Cyber Safe Place -Alexandre

Alexandre joined VARS Corporation infrastructure management Key Learnings
in December 2020, while he was experience when I decided to focus Communication and alignment
still working as the CISO of another on security, I faced issues passing across the organizations are vital
organization. During the period, he HR filtering in the hiring process. As to ensuring that the project is

continued sharing a great deal of a result, I began sharing on LinkedIn successful.
information and best practices on and became a world leader in Projects are successful and run
social media. Alexandre has cybersecurity topics and trends. smoothly when communication
always believed in aligning all the Another hurdle was challenging

team members to ensure higher the status quo or the global way of is well-handled.
speed and accuracy. He thinks thinking. Being ahead of the Top 3 technologies in 2021
that a team works much better market means I don't follow the Encryption and privacy solutions,
when everybody knows what role market, and that means facing a Security automation, and IoT.

they play. lot of resistance from the ones
holding a strong position in the
Achievements & Contribution
in the IT industry market.

At VARS, I have adopted a unique Best IT Deployment
approach wherein I focus on Information security and privacy
bringing advanced cybersecurity are my core values, so when I'm

solutions to organizations that do involved in a project, I make sure
not interest the leading security these areas are well covered,
i d e a l l y w i t h p r o p e r d a t a
vendors. My contribution in
bringing best practices, affordable governance.
and usable solutions to SMBs, and Another unique deployment was
larger organizations are aimed at bringing an organization to an

making the world a cyber safer ISO27001 certification for all their
place. key processes that made a huge
difference. Re-building trust in
Key Challenges
technology, not by checking boxes
One of the key challenges that I but by making all the needed

have dealt with is related to the
basics are covered.
lack of certifications. While I had
20+ years of IT (and security) -

Alexandre Blanc
vCISO, VARS Corporation
June 2021