July TASK: Business Resilience and Post-Quantum TLS
Join TASK this July for a dual deep dive into building resilient business continuity programs and preparing TLS and digital certificates for the post-quantum era—designed for practitioners, architects, and security leaders planning for today's disruptions and tomorrow's cryptographic challenges.
Live and in-person at TMU + Live-Streamed on Discord
Date: Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM
In-Person Location: DCC 208 Classroom at TMU's Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex - 288 Church Street
Registration: Not required
Live-Stream: Although TASK is always best in-person, we will steam live again on Discord @ https://discord.gg/aXfY76xgVJ.
Topic: Business Resilience in Action - Continuity Program Pitfalls to Avoid
Speaker: Stephen Litvack
This presentation examines the most common and persistent pitfalls encountered by practitioners when designing and operating business resilience programs. Drawing on real‑world client experience, it challenges superficial approaches to business continuity, disaster recovery, and crisis management that result in fragile, untested, and ineffective plans. The session highlights recurring issues such as poorly executed business impact analysis, unclear ownership, disconnected plans, unusable documentation, and inadequate testing. The presentation emphasizes the importance of actionable recovery strategies, defined responsibilities, and effective validation. Attendees will gain practical insights to move beyond compliance‑driven resilience toward capabilities that perform under real disruption conditions.
Stephen Litvack is a Manager in Technology Risk Services at KPMG Canada, specializing in business resilience consulting. With over a decade of experience, Stephen has helped clients across a wide range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, government, property management, manufacturing, nonprofit, and retail, to develop, implement, and manage business resilience programs. He is a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) with additional credentials in CRISC, ITIL, and project management.
Topic: Preparing TLS and Certificates for the Post-Quantum Era
Speaker: Matthew McPherrin
TLS is one of the most widely deployed and depended-upon cryptographic systems in the world, but currently relies on algorithms which could be broken by a quantum computer. However, despite that looming threat, migrating to post-quantum schemes has tradeoffs that mean it's not a direct upgrade.
We’ll discuss what it means to be post-quantum safe, introduce PQ-safe algorithms such as ML-KEM and ML-DSA, and show how they'll be used in TLS with Merkle Tree certificates.
Matthew McPherrin is the technical lead of the Let's Encrypt site reliability engineering team, which runs the Let’s Encrypt Certificate Authority and Certificate Transparency logs.
We look forward to see you all there!
The TASK Steering Committee