External IT security & privacy compliance check-ups are considered basic practices in every industry sector. Unfortunately, at least 24% of companies have never conducted a risk assessment, potentially exposing customer data and increasing the risk of embarrassing breaches.> read more
New data shows a surge in the intensity and sophistication of denial-of-service attacks is victimizing more companies than ever before. The impact of network flooding attacks on small and medium size companies can exceed $1 million/day.> read more
Canada’s 1.1 million businesses will need to have proof of voluntary opt-in for every recipient on their email lists or risk facing eventual penalties up to $10 million. But according to security experts, that’s the easy part.> read more
Since 2006, 1138 security lapses caused a combined 29,791,337 privacy data breaches. In Canada, the cumulative compromises of 6 million medical data records have alerted Privacy Commissioners and rocked public confidence.>read more
The Verify Challenge will award $25,000 in security solutions to the first 10 organizations that identify or report a significant data breach that could not have been prevented with the application of standardized security practices.
TORONTO, April 3, 2014 /CNW/ – Almost a year after the Snowden revelations began surfacing, as many as half of Canadian executives and business owners are still unaware that ongoing Internet surveillance and pervasive data interception vastly complicate their legal responsibility to protect the confidentiality of customer data. Privacy laws require organizations to protect personal
Baby abductions point to the need for clinics & healthcare facilities to conduct rigorous physical security and protocol reviews: HealthcareSecurity.ca TORONTO, May 28, 2014 /CNW/ – Following the AMBER alert at a Quebec hospital, health Minister Gaétan Barrette ordered widespread reviews of security protocols. Informatica, a Canadian company specializing in security auditing has responded by
TORONTO, April 21, 2014 /CNW/ – Informatica Security, Canada’s leading provider of data protection and privacy risk assessments announced that Heartbleed vulnerability analysis is now included by default in its Verify™ IT security audits. The comprehensive, 21-stage verification adds the ability to detect infected spam servers and privacy breaches, protecting reputations, bringing cost savings and
TORONTO, March 14, 2014 /CNW/ – Many of the security and privacy breaches from the past year have been traced to failures to protect data. Surprisingly, responsibility fell on trusted third parties with weak security practices. From the Target breach to global stock exchanges, up to 63% of security infractions and business disruptions have been
The Quick Response codes we see on everything from movie posters to business cards are becoming the ubiquitous contact links of an entire new generation of mobile devices and the people who use them. Originally invented in Asia at the end of the last millennium (circa 1994 Japan, actually), these matrix or 2D (two-dimensional) barcodes
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