Dec 16, 2020 | 2nd Tier Stories, All Articles, Blog, Most Popular, Threats, Top Story
What happened at SolarWinds? On Monday, December 14, SolarWinds Inc. published a statement advising that selected SolarWinds® Orion® Platform software builds have been compromised. A cyberattack on their systems inserted a vulnerability into versions 2019.4 HF 5,...
Dec 11, 2020 | 2nd Tier Stories, All Articles, Blog, Threats, Top Story
GRC – governance, risk, and compliance – is playing an increasingly important role in the operations of many organizations. Today we’ll discuss what GRC is, and how it can help support your cybersecurity infrastructure. The concept of formal GRC evolved in the early...
Nov 5, 2020 | 2nd Tier Stories, All Articles, Blog, Humans of Cyber, Top Story
This is part of our Humans of Cyber initiative, a series of in-depth interviews with key figures and leaders of the Canadian cybersecurity ecosystem.In mid-October, we presented a high-level look at some of the cybersecurity issues affecting the online gaming...
Oct 30, 2020 | 2nd Tier Stories, All Articles, Blog, Threats, Top Story
As Cyber Security Awareness Month draws to a close, we thought we would take some time to reflect on the past month. There were hard times over the past 31 days, with major cyber attacks felt in the legal sector (Seyfarth Shaw), pharma (Dr. Reddy Laboratories), steel...
Sep 25, 2020 | 2nd Tier Stories, All Articles, Blog, Threats, Top Story
ISA’s President and CEO Kevin Dawson was featured in “Privacy Across Borders”, a webcast held by the Privacy and Access to Information Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) on Thursday, September 17, 2020. Kevin was invited to participate in a panel that...
Aug 21, 2020 | 2nd Tier Stories, All Articles, Blog, Financial Services, Threats, Top Story
The financial sector is one of the hardest hit by cybercrime: not only are banks among the most frequent targets of attack, the Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020 suggests that recovery costs for financial institutions are consistently in the top two or three for...