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Now would be the right time to really get in the cloud game
Digital transformation has been occupying business leaders for many years, but the global pandemic has put transformation at the centre...


Weak cyber hygiene behind many successful cloud attacks, warns US agency
Experts maintain that organizations that mandate multifactor authentication as an extra step to protect logins greatly improves their...


Disruption – nonprofits should embrace it
The speed of technology adoption has allowed small startups to become entrepreneurial giants. Hospitality, taxi, food, and the finance...


How DLP systems adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic
Let us discuss what problems companies have faced when transferring all work activity to a remote format, which communication channels...


How tech can put patients back in the driver seat of their healthcare
In Canada, receiving public healthcare often feels like getting the cold shoulder, with the unspoken policy of “you get what you get, and...


Digital experienced directors are rare at the top 100 TSX corporations – that’s a problem
You may not recall, but 30 years ago, back in 1990-91, Canada was in a recession and corporate Canada was stressed with massive public...


3 factors that are driving us towards a data-driven decision-making world
A seismic shift toward data-driven decision-making will take place over the next decade. This shift or rebalancing between intuition and...


Nearly half of Canadian workers experience daily burnout, according to Microsoft Work Trend Index
With files from Pragya Sehgal High productivity is masking exhausted workforces globally, and the situation is worse in Canada, according...


WFH boom makes ‘employee experience’ a C-suite priority, says Microsoft Viva chief
Microsoft's new employee experience platform, Viva, is central to the company's bid to roll out software that helps organizations better...


Canadian IoT provider Sierra Wireless hit by ransomware
Richmond, B.C.-based Sierra Wireless says it was hit with ransomware on March 20. In a statement this morning, the publicly-traded...


Microsoft provides Exchange Server defensive tool to help SMBs stymie zero-day attacks
Microsoft Tuesday issued instructions and a one-click tool to small businesses with on-premises Exchange servers to patch the...


Hackers target developers to break into Apple’s garden
Developers should beware, as cybercriminals have figured out that the best attack vectors to infect the Apple ecosystem may be the...


Microsoft urges enterprise to test Windows 10 21H1 as May launch looms
Microsoft is now telling commercial customers that Windows 10 21H1 is ready for "commercial pre-release validation," a phrase it first...


Backup and Disaster Recovery Best Practices in the Work-From-Home Era
With the massive number of office closures brought on by COVID-19, millions of employees are now working remotely, creating new backup...


Backup Best Practices: Why You Should Follow the 3-2-2 Rule
The FBI’s Internet Crime Center (IC3) received 467,361 complaints in 2019—nearly 1,300 every day according to its 2019 Internet Crime...


Icon files abused in malspam to spread NanoCore Trojan
A new malspam campaign is abusing icon files to dupe victims into executing the NanoCore Trojan. On Thursday, SpiderLabs at Trustwave...


Speed up your home office: How to optimize your network for remote work and learning
Note: I first published this article on Aug. 18, 2020, when we were starting to realize we were in for a long haul with COVID-19,...


Everything you need to know about the Microsoft Exchange Server hack
Four zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server are being actively exploited by a state-sponsored threat group from China and...


ALERT: Malicious Amazon Alexa Skills Can Easily Bypass Vetting Process
Researchers have uncovered gaps in Amazon's skill vetting process for the Alexa voice assistant ecosystem that could allow a malicious...


Why do companies fail to stop breaches despite soaring IT security investment?
Adding to the list of difficulties that surfaced last year, 2020 was also grim for personal data protection, as it has marked a new...
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