The concept would prevent a vendor from avoiding to work with municipalities that give unfavourable security assessments and sell to others who don’t know about the weaknesses.
The federal government on Monday launched the long-awaited cybersecurity certification for small and mid-sized businesses in hopes of increasing the attention SMBs pay to cybersecurity as well as increasing the confidence of online shoppers who buy from Canadian sites.
Just over a year after announcing an updated federal cybersecurity strategy, Ottawa has revealed how it will be implemented.
IT security experts say they still come across business leaders in Canada who don’t believe their organization…
The price of security incidents in organizations in 11 countries jumped an average of 12 per cent last year, according to a new study.
Canadian organizations are increasingly moving data and workloads to the cloud. But if a recently-released study is representative, the leading firms in this movement are among the least secure.
Small and mid-sized companies face a dilemma when it comes to cyber security: If they can’t afford full-time infosec experts to effectively defend themselves, what and how much can they afford to do?
Canada faced the second biggest increase in malware attacks last year among customers according to corporate security vendor SonicWall.
Some takeaways for business partners from the RSA Conference in San Francisco.
Security incident and event management (SIEM) systems have a reputation for being hard to configure and tune.…
Clarification: On May 17 Carleton University told ITWC that while an arrangement with the Canadian Cybersecurity Innovation…
Infosec leaders are often proud of the infrastructure they’ve built to protect their organizations. But at a…
After getting reports 11 days ago that some Intel-based computers were undergoing high amounts of reboots after…
The question of how fast to apply Microsoft’s January 3 patches for the Meltdown/Spectre processor vulnerability —…
The country’s biggest municipal power system has wasted no time in implementing patches to the Meltdown and…
