InfoSec Hamilton Monthly Meetup for November 2025

6:30 - doors open
7pm - What to Expect When You’re Expecting Pentesters w/ Andrew Wade
7:45 - intermission
8pm - continue talk / social time
9pm - wrap up

Session description:
What to Expect When You’re Expecting Pentesters: How to Talk to Your Cybersecurity Consultant Before the Exploits Begin

Your speaker:
Andrew Wade (linkedin) is a Principal Security Consultant at NCC Group, specializing in cloud and container security. He contributes to industry standards (CSA CCSKv5, App Defense Alliance) and holds certifications including CCSK, CARTP, CKA, and CKS. Over the last 5 years at NCC Group, Andrew has scoped and delivered a wide range of engagements, including cloud security reviews, container orchestration testing, security architecture and threat modelling assessments, firewall reviews, macOS native application testing, web application testing, and web services tests. He brings a background in network engineering, penetration testing, security architecture, and developing hands-on cybersecurity training environments for industry and academia.

Your host:
Todd Dow (linkedin) is a Technical Security Solutions Architect at Cisco. He is also a writer, speaker and founder of InfoSec Hamilton. Todd has over 20 years of experience in the cybersecurity field performing penetration tests, providing security architecture and compliance consulting and creating, developing and leading high performing security teams – this included working as the CISO at two organizations: First Ontario Credit Union and ArcelorMittal Dofasco. Todd maintains CISSP, CISA and PMP credentials and he has also earned an Hon BA in Philosophy and Religious Studies from the University of Toronto.