November 16, 2022 The poor state of cybersecurity of some of Ontario’s school boards, child welfare agencies, municipalities, and hospitals worries the head of the province’s expert panel that just evaluated the condition of the broader public sector. more...
November 2, 2022 Thirty-six countries, including Canada, have agreed to work together more closely fight ransomware. At the end of a two-day summit in Washington on Tuesday the countries involved in last year’s Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI) agreed more...
October 25, 2022 As Canada’s public and private sectors launch new digital identity programs, federal, provincial, and territorial regulators say rights to privacy and transparency must be fully respected throughout their design and operation. “The development and implementation more...
October 20, 2022 Last summer, the federal government proposed changes to the Telecommunications Act that it says will force Canadian telecom providers to toughen cybersecurity. However, a researcher at a university think tank says the legislation is full more...
October 14, 2022 The carbon-based units are again responsible for a huge breach of security controls at an organization. This time it was an employee of the City of Hamilton, who hit an email ‘send’ button too fast more...
October 11, 2022 After six months’ notice that they had to be prepared, all provincially-regulated employers with more than 25 workers today must have a written policy describing how they electronically monitor staff. Among those to be included more...
September 30, 2022 Canada’s recently-appointed privacy commissioner is still not saying what he thinks of the government’s latest attempt to update the federal privacy law covering the business sector. In the annual report to Parliament filed Thursday by more...
September 29, 2022 Canadian federal government employees are being encouraged to attend a bilingual cybersecurity webinar next month. The session, which coincides with the annual October Cybersecurity Awareness Month, is called “Cyber Safety: Your Behaviour Counts.” It takes more...
August 25, 2022 A group led by integrator Optiv Canada that includes Venafi and Ottawa-based Crypto4A Technologies has won a competitive contract to automate much of the federal government’s network device authentication process. The contract with Shared Services more...
August 19, 2022 A critical SAP vulnerability that was patched in February has been added to a U.S. government cyber agency’s list of exploited security bugs after being discussed last week at security conferences, leading to the possibility more...
