George Pajari

George Pajari is a “CISO-for-hire”, providing cybersecurity leadership to SaaS cloud startups. He was previously the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Hootsuite, the most widely used social media management platform with over 15 million users including more than 800 of the Fortune 1000 companies. He was responsible for information security, IS risk management, and IT general controls. Prior to that he was the Security Architect at Hootsuite, and before that, Manager of Network Operations for Glentel's national digital radio service. He is a member of the BC Government's Provincial Security Advisory Council, a member of the Vancouver (ISC)² Chapter executive, and one of the organisers of the Vancouver BSides and BC AWARE Day security conferences. He was invited by the (ISC)² to write the Security Architecture and Engineering section for the next edition of the Official (ISC)² Guide to the CISSP CBK (Common Body of Knowledge), to be published by John Wiley in 2019. George's professional certifications include the CISSP-ISSAP, CISM, and CIPP/E. He is learning to play the bagpipes and his paper on a new device for improving piping skills will appear in a forthcoming issue of Piping Times.