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VMware, BYOD, and the time Steve Jobs compared CIOs to an orifice

TORONTO – Ask VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger about the bring your own device (BYOD) trend in enterprise IT and he’ll tell you it’s still...

Revenue Canada shuts down e-filing due to Heartbleed risk

Are you planning to file your income tax return online today? Sorry, but you can't. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) shut down parts of its...

Cyber crooks set data breach record in 2013: Symantec

The year 2013 was a record year both in terms of the total number of data breaches and the total number of customer records...

Canadian ISPs need to be more transparent: report

Canadian Internet service providers need to be more upfront with the customers on how they are handling private data, according to report released today...

Fortinet brings security platform to Amazon’s cloud

Network security vendor Fortinet is bringing its FortiGate security platform to Amazon Web Services. FortiGate-VM implements critical network security controls including bi-directional stateful firewalling, intrusion...

McAfee inks security partnership with power vendor

A partnership deal between security vendor McAfee, now Intel Security, and Schneider Electric, formerly APC, may enable solution providers to resell security along with...

McAfee warns of the dangers of the “dark web”

Security McAfee Labs (soon to be known as Intel Security) is highlighting the role of the “dark web” malware industry as driving many of...

Top industries that get hacked

This should be no secret to the many channel partners in Canada, but data security still faces major challenges. IBM just released its 2014 IBM...

HighTech Countdown: Snowden affair rocks cloud security

In the second episode of the HighTech Countdown for 2014, CDN takes a look at how the Edward Snowden affair impacts cloud security. Snowden, the former CIA...

Brainshark’s John Salamone is Kaspersky’s new North American SMB chief

There’s a new boss for the small and medium-sized business (SMB) segment in North America for Russian security vendor Kaspersky Lab. Kaspersky said Wednesday that...

Security as a service could create a more secure future

SAN FRANCISCO – With all the weekly headlines about new malware, dangerous threats, and unforeseen attack vectors, it might be easy to believe that...

McAfee launches McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange

Security vendor McAfee (soon to be known as Intel security) has launched McAfee Threat Intelligence exchange, which it calls the first solution to orchestrate...

Turning cloud computing into a security advantage

SAN FRANCISCO - After the warnings about the cloud and its potential threats to security, it seems counter-intuitive to say the cloud can actually...

10 public cloud security concerns you shouldn’t ignore

SAN FRANCISCO - It’s not news that businesses are moving more  of their data to the cloud. But even as cloud storage and computing...

Newsmaker #21 Sean Forkan, Symantec Canada

In a year of change at Symantec, Sean Forkan was a constant as vice-president and general manager of Symantec Canada. In Canada, Symantec said goodbye...

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