Protecting businesses from cyberattack starts with awareness and understanding
The COVID-19 pandemic saw the majority of business go virtual with many firms trading off cybersecurity for digitalization of services. However, cybercriminals are used to working remotely, and taking advantage of the new ways to hack companies.
Deeper questions about the place of social media in our society
TikTok’s privacy and security issues may lead us to miss an arguably more important concern: the sheer impact on mental health and productivity caused by daily usage of the platform.
Cyber threat ‘continuously evolving,’ with autocratic states posing ‘greatest strategic cyber threat to Canada,’ Senate committee hears
Between malicious cyber activities and state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, Russia has long employed ‘a broader hybrid toolkit to achieve its geopolitical and military objectives globally,’ says Tara Denham with Global Affairs Canada.
Space systems are too important to leave unprotected against cyber attack
Canada has not designated space systems as part of the nation’s critical infrastructure, even though allies Australia, France, and the United Kingdom have done so.
Canadians deserve equitable access to psychedelic-assisted therapy
Supporting our veterans requires research and immediate investment to improve the lives of those who served on our behalf and the millions of people suffering from treatable conditions.
Canada must partner with allies, private sector to better protect against growing cyber attacks
It is imperative that Canada leaves legacy IT solutions behind, and moves to automated solutions. This is long overdue.
Recent cyber-attacks show that we need to get on with Bill C-26
Canada needs to raise the baseline level of cybersecurity across the systems we rely on most before we find ourselves making laws in the middle of a national cybersecurity crisis.
Global Affairs gauged ‘very likely’ chance of another breach weeks after 2022 cyberattack: docs
‘These attacks will continue to happen and the best we can do is create networks and systems with layered defences to make it harder, and to diminish the impact if it does occur,’ says researcher Alexander Rudolph.
Cybersecurity needs faster, seamless public-private collaboration, say cyber experts
Automated defences protected the government from 2.3-trillion cyber attacks in the last year, or an average of 6.3 billion a day.
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