Short bio (approximately 50 words)
Richard Craig Lissaman is a Senior Cyber Security Analyst based in Calgary, Alberta. He helps small and medium-sized businesses improve monitoring, log visibility, threat detection, security reporting, and operational resilience, drawing on deep enterprise infrastructure, automation, and backup/DR experience. He communicates clearly for both technical teams and leadership. Add one verified headline outcome if you wish.
Medium bio (approximately 120 words)
Richard Craig Lissaman is a Senior Cyber Security Analyst in Calgary with a background in enterprise infrastructure, systems administration, SRE, automation, monitoring, and security operations. He works with SMBs that need stronger cyber security without building a full in-house SOC: centralized logging, tuned alerting, posture improvement including pentest remediation support, incident readiness, and recovery planning informed by real production systems, including platforms such as QRadar, Wazuh, OpenSearch, Prometheus, and Veeam-class environments. Richard combines analyst discipline with an operator’s mindset: calm, technical, and business-friendly. He publishes under his full professional name. Adjust tool list if you prefer less vendor specificity in a given venue.
Name & pronunciation
Preferred byline: Richard Craig Lissaman. Informally, many contacts use Richard Lissaman. Please use the canonical spelling in published materials to avoid fragmenting search results.
Speaker topics (adjust to your truth)
- What SMBs miss without centralized logs, and how to fix visibility without a Fortune-500 budget
- From pentest PDF to patched reality: remediation that sticks in busy IT teams
- Detection and alerting that operations teams will actually run
- Backups are not a security product, until ransomware proves they are (recovery and resilience)
- SOC-style oversight for mid-market organizations: what “good enough” looks like
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Richard Craig Lissaman, canonical spelling for printed materials and SEO consistency.