Risk management is the process for identifying, analyzing, and communicating risk and accepting, avoiding, transferring, or controlling it to an acceptable level considering associated costs and benefits of any actions taken.
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ISN works closely with our clients to understand our client’s security risk profile and risk appetite. We then use industry best practices and subject matter experts to establish and implement a security risk management plan. These plans can include, creating a robust enterprise security management system, conducting threat, risk and vulnerability assessments, training employees on how they each play a role in minimizing the organization’s risk profile or conducting detailed investigations on security breaches or employee misconduct.
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The ISN Risk Management consultants work closely with our clients, providing a dedicated approach focused on helping protect their enterprise concerns. We provide hands-on expertise in key areas, including:
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KATE LINES
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
EXECUTIVE TRAINER


After an extensive career in law enforcement and as a contract Criminal Profiler with ISN, Kate Lines official joined the ISN team in 2015 as a Principle Investigator and Executive Trainer. Kate specializes in corporate internal investigations such as workplace harassment, violence in the workplace, and human rights investigation.
Kate was a member of the Ontario Provincial Police for over 33 years and retired at the rank of Chief Superintendent. She oversaw the OPP’s Investigation and Support Bureau with over 500 uniform and civilian employees working on major criminal investigations across Ontario. Throughout Kate’s career she worked as a police officer on uniform patrol, undercover drug investigations, fraud investigations, intelligence and major crimes such as homicide and sexual assault. In 1990, she was trained by the FBI to become Canada’s first female criminal profiler. Kate went on to be voted Canadian Police Leader of the Year in 2004.
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Kate continues to teach an online criminal profiling course and is also the volunteer board chair of the national non-profit, Victim Justice Network. In June of 2016, Kate received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology for her career as pioneer of women in policing and her leadership in criminal profiling. Kate has written a national best-selling book called Crime Seen: From Patrol Cop to Profiler – My Stores From Behind The Yellow Tape.