Alex Dow

Co-founder & Managing Director of Innovation, Mirai Security

Over the past two decades, Alex has worked within three mission-critical security operation centres (SOC), including the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics SOC, established Vancouver’s cyber security community and in 2017 co-founded one of Western Canada’s leading pureplay cyber security consultancies.

𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿: In 2013 he established Vancouver’s cyber security community through the founding of the BSides Vancouver cyber security conference. In 2017, frustrated with how broken cyber security consulting had become, forged Mirai Security from within the community. Mirai Security has quickly become the centre for cyber security excellence in Western Canada by attracting cyber security professionals who want to do cyber security better.

𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿: Over the years, he has focused on balancing risk and reward through business-enabling security architectures. Today, Alex is the Chief Innovation Officer at Mirai Security. Mirai, Japanese for the future, focuses on the “future of cyber risk” by helping enterprises securely digitally transform through innovative governance, secure Cloud and AI adoption and maturing software development practices to align with privacy and security requirements.

𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿: He has a passion for knowledge and giving back to the community through public speaking, contributing to cyber security books, has taught for the SANS Institute, and continues to advise the higher education sector on the future of cyber security.