My first post in this series covered the basics of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks: how they work, the different types of attacks and the areas of your IT infrastructure that can be targeted. Yet even when companies know…
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Businesses across Canada have likely heard quite a bit about distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the past year. The first three months of 2015 saw twice as many DDoS attacks as the same period the year before. Knowing…
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When you’re ready to go home at the end of your working day, I have no doubt that you carefully lock up and secure your business’ premises and, in all likelihood, set your alarm system so it will detect any…
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Cyber security threats are by no means limited to big brands and multinational businesses. According to the RCMP, cyber crime is expanding, and the tools and knowledge to perform cyber attacks are becoming easier to access. As a small business,…
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With organizations increasing their spending on cyber security every year – particularly in the mobile and cloud domains – why are security breaches and data thefts so often in the news? According to security research firm Mandiant, 63% of breaches…
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Enterprise decision makers often ask me what process they should follow to budget for security. While most mature organizations use one or more of the common approaches, the changing security landscape justifies their quest in looking for a new perspective….
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Many of us make them. Most of us invariably break them. We’re talking of course, about New Year’s resolutions. And in the midst of those resolutions – often centred around health and fitness – you may want to also consider…
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Imagine a bunch of lawyers prying into every email you sent and received during a certain period of time, on every device you use – even your own personal devices. That means any laptops, PCs, smartphones and tablets you use for work and play. What if…
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Even the Pentagon isn’t immune to data breaches. Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden are now either in exile, in prison or incommunicado: Assange is holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, Manning (formerly known as Bradley) is…
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For a long time, data centres were simply places to house computing equipment and store information. More recently, however, they’ve come to play a vital role in powering Canadian businesses through processing transactions, continuously backing up critical corporate data, hosting…
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