This conference was fantastic, it had such a great selection of speakers that it made choosing which talks to attend extra difficult. I highly recommend going to this conference next year.. just make sure your personal devices aren’t actively transmitting if you do!
Read MoreDisaster recovery is a team effort that requires regular practice. You don’t want your first practice to be during your first disaster!
Read MoreSeveral high profile security vulnerabilities were released in the last few days. Here's a quick rundown of the most relevant to our members.
Read MoreCanada is doing very well and so is the US so cyber security is not too bad in North America relatively speaking.
Read MoreMost organizations leave their cyber security up to their system/network administrators and/or programmers. Unfortunately this often results in unpatched systems, disabled firewalls, weak passwords, little to no secure software, and other bad practices that make overloaded IT teams’ and hackers’ jobs easier.
Sadly having a dedicated technical security team is a luxury few organizations think they can afford.
Read MoreMany people already know how to recognize sketchy files - usually they show up as attachments in unsolicited emails and/or have suspect file extensions. Viruses commonly have the .exe extension although several other file extensions are risky like .com, .app, or .vb.
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