The Team
Who We Are
Victor Munro
Chief Executive Officer
Secretary General, Insider Risk Practitioner Alliance
Sessional Lecturer, Carleton University, Insider Risk, Threat, and Mitigation
Lead Researcher, CInRM CoE, Insider Threat Monitoring Theory
Co-Author - Limitations & Opportunities in Reporting Insider Threats
Unfortunately, when a compromise occurs, it could become front page news and it can damage the reputation of the affected organization
Canadian Security (Winter 2021)
“What we’re seeing in insider threat right now in Canada is still this reluctance to admit that organizations have been victim to insider threat attacks. So that causes a challenge, not just for the industry, but also ... to conduct research on how bad is the phenomenon in the Canadian experience,”
When foreign adversaries plant or compromise insiders within government agencies, sensitive intelligence belonging not only to Canada but also to its allies in the Five Eyes community — Canada, the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand — can be at stake
Employees will always require a certain level of access to corporate systems to do their jobs, which creates “unavoidable exposure,”
To effectively combat the threat of rogue employees, organizations should have dedicated insider risk programs
Globe and Mail (October 2025)
Paul Huston
Chief Operating Officer, Program Lead, & Associate Instructor
Lead Facilitator, Operational Information Exchange
Instructor, CInRM CoE, Practical Certificate in Insider Risk Management - Program Building and Organizational Integration
...people in the security industry need to be able to bring together skillsets from various areas of a corporation to effectively address the different types of risks they face. With this skill... security professionals must also develop a better appreciation of risk and move away from... black and white “yes or no” responses.
Canadian Security (March 2022)
Brian Thompson
Chief Learning Officer & Associate Instructor
Instructor, CInRM CoE, Practical Certificate in Insider Risk Management - Foundations for Screening and Risk Factors
Daniel Bertrand
Chief Security Officer, Program Lead, & Associate Instructor
Program Lead, Centralized Insider Threat Dataset (CITD)
Instructor, CInRM CoE, Practical Certificate in Insider Risk Management - Open Source Research and Intelligence
Denis Desnoyers
Chief Partnerships Officer and Associate Instructor
Instructor, CInRM CoE, Practical Certificate in Insider Risk Management - Investigations
Investigators also consider “environmental factors” of the institution in question
Breach of trust is a big piece...That and fraud
Now somebody’s shined a light on what’s going on, and what was acceptable (in) that culture, all this lack of training, lack of moral standards, records – now it’s all sort of imploding
Global News (November 2015)
Dr. Eric Lang
Chief Scientist
Psychology, Social Research, and Organizational Innovation
John Pomeroy
Executive Advisor, Critical Infrastructure and Cyber Resilience
William Beiersdorfer
Senior Advisor
“Executive buy-in is integral to the success of any Insider Risk (Threat) Program and will determine whether it succeeds or fails. The field of Insider Risk is continually evolving and adapting to how the world is changing around us all.”
Mr. Beiersdorfer had a fruitful career as a police officer within the RCMP for 38 years with experience in organized crime, national security criminal investigations and northern service policing. He was integral in building open-source capacity (OSCIS/TIOS) within the RCMP National Security Program, before moving on to developing Insider Risk capacity by building the National Insider Risk and Awareness Program (NIRAP). Bill was instrumental in developing SERP (Security Event Reporting Program), an electronic means of reporting security events nationally for all RCMP employee resources. Bill has investigative insider risk experience relating to the criminal espionage investigation of a Canadian navel officer, and the Security of Information Act (SOIA) investigation of a director general of the RCMP intelligence program.
Mr. Beiersdorfer has achieved subject matter expertise certification by virtue of his training at Carnegie Mellon University and applying that knowledge to the development of insider risk capacity within the RCMP and applying that to criminal investigations.
Mr. Beiersdorfer has since transitioned to the Department of National Defence – Director Defense Security Operations (DDSO) as a Senior Policy Analyst for the Insider Risk Program.
Emanuel Lukawiecki
Researcher and Program Coordinator
Lead Researcher - Canadian Insider Threat Dataset - Open Source
Project Support, CInRM CoE, Centralized Insider Threat Dataset (CITD)
Lead Coordinator, CInRM CoE, Canadian Insider Threat Awareness Month (CITAM)
Antonio Bucciarelli
Assistant Researcher
Assistant Researcher - Canadian Insider Threat Dataset - Open Source
Project Support, CInRM CoE, Centralized Insider Threat Dataset (CITD)
Researchers
Individuals who are contributing original Canadian research on insider risk management
Steering Committee
Provides a governance structure within Carleton University, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, and strategic guidance informed by academia and the industry at large.
Past Researchers
Individuals who have contributed original Canadian research on insider risk management
Past Contributors
Interdisciplinary Views Informing on Insider Risk Management
Individuals providing points-of-view (POV) on the management of insider threats*
