A Note from Kevin Dawson, our President and CEO – 2019 was a Transformative Year for ISA Cybersecurity
2019 – A Year in Review It feels like it was just yesterday that I sat down to write the 2018 year in review message, yet here I am at the keyboard again. When I look at the achievements and initiatives our customers and team members have worked on this year, I can see how […]
#GrowTheGame and Grow Women In Cyber
Women in Cyber and On the Ice Every six months for over decade, and closer to 15 years, ISA has been hosting a hockey game and networking for our customers and partners. This event has been growing in popularity and this November, we even had our first female hockey player join #teamwhite in November, contributing […]
Computer Security Day.
November 30th was Computer Security Day. This year, Computer Security Day, which began in 1988 and has been observed on November 30th every year, happened on a Saturday. But everyday needs to be Computer Security Awareness Day! Imagine tomorrow morning at seven-thirty. Early employees who want to get a head start on their day arrive […]
Becoming Cyber Agile and More Cyber Secure
“Cyber agility isn’t just about patching a security hole; it’s about understanding what happens over time. Sometimes when you protect one vulnerability, you expose yourself to ten others.” – Jose Mireles, U.S. Department of Defense Academics at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) recently developed the first cyber agility framework that scores the […]
How to Pitch ISA Cybersecurity to Your Team, so You Pay Today – Not Tomorrow
“You can pay me today or tomorrow. But tomorrow includes a press release describing that we weren’t proactive in protecting our data and systems.” – Russ Verbofsky, CIO and CISO, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Organizations can adequately fund their security budgets today, or pay in clean up, fines, damages, and bad publicity […]
Socially Secure: Cybersecurity for Social Media
In 2019, a business will fall victim to a ransomware attack every 14 seconds. “It’s no longer enough to be on the lookout for something in your inbox that appears suspicious,” said FBI Cyber Division Assistant Director Matt Gorham. “As criminals have grown savvier and their efforts more targeted, individuals and organizations need to scrutinize […]
Call It Like It Is: The Ultimate Goal of Cybersecurity
“Change is challenging. And security is like a moving target, so make sure you are able to deal with and work through frequent changes.” – Unknown As we close out cybersecurity awareness month in October, let’s revisit what cybersecurity is, or rather, what cybersecurity should be. Cybersecurity seems to be a concept that individuals, media […]
Canadian Municipalities Transform in the Cloud
“The smart city paradigm is the holy grail for cities. Cities are marching toward greater adoption of technology and data-driven insights all over the world,” says Adcock. “We all want to be intelligent cities; we all want to be smart cities. We all want to use data to help us manage the city in an […]
Cybersecurity Assistance and Insurance for SMB
This is the second blog in a two-part blog series focusing on cybersecurity for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). In the first blog, we looked at the cyber risks that SMBs face. In this blog, we look at what cybersecurity assistance is available for SMBs. “Sit down and try and think of as many things […]