A pilot program aimed at training women and non-binary persons for careers in cybersecurity will soon start recruiting its third group of students. The program, offered to students in computer science and related courses in seven Canadian post-secondary institutions, should start looking for candidates next month for the fall academic year, said Vivian Lee, team […]
Infosec pros don’t have much respect for the cybersecurity or information security courses offered in colleges and universities, a new survey suggests. Half of the respondents to a new survey done for Kaspersky said the availability of cybersecurity or information security courses in formal higher education is either poor, or very poor. This number increased […]
The government of Canada has launched the Digital Talent Platform, an online recruitment site for digital and IT professionals. The platform simplifies the application process for individuals who specialize in digital and IT who are looking to apply for jobs within the government. It will also provide federal institutions with lists of pre-qualified individuals that […]
Chief information and security officers both have feelings of anxiety and see opportunity as the new year starts. That’s the summation of the analysis done by IANS Research and Artico Search in their State of the CISO 2023-2024 report. It’s an 18-page summary of interviews conducted last fall with 100 American and Canada CISOs, plus […]
A number of companies have publicly stated that they have dropped the requirement for a college degree to apply for many of their mid-level and highly skilled jobs. They cite the need to adapt to a tight labour market, the quest for better diversity, and the realization that AI will soon make a significant impact […]
Hydro One, an Ontario electricity transmission and distribution provider, has partnered with VR Vision, a virtual reality technology company, to transform the training experience for its customer care and field service teams. The collaboration integrates 360° VR video into training for approximately 530 employees from now until the end of June 2024. Hydro One’s new […]
This week, Channel Daily News hosted its annual Women in the IT Channel recognition luncheon at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Ont. to celebrate the achievements of women in the channel. The theme of the event was ‘Making an Impact’. Four honourees were recognized and added to the Women in the IT Channel Hall […]
Experts regularly insist that diversity — be it in age, colour, ethnicity or other categories — helps make an organization vigorous. An example is Susan Chiang. A woman born in Taiwan whose family moved to the U.S., she has risen to become senior director of security at Cloudflare, overseeing a staff of 100. Yet, by […]
A professional singer, a mother, and an association administrator are the backgrounds of five of the honorees for this year’s IT World Canada Top Women in Cybersecurity event. That came out at a panel discussion on careers during Wednesday’s fourth annual celebration honoring women in the industry. Consider these five women and their varied journeys […]
A strategic planning discussion organized by Gartner earlier this month, targeted at senior IT managers in Ontario’s public sector, examined the best approach they should take so they as individuals, and the organizations they work for, succeed. The session, which took place at the University of Toronto’s Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship, featured […]
The talent shortage in cybersecurity could disappear if organizations had looser needs and spent more on educating existing staff, Canadian experts say. “I think the resource challenge is actually manufactured,” Michael Glover, former CISO of an online betting firm told this week’s IT World Canada MapleSec Satellite series on Wednesday. “The reason is we’re painting […]
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Manulife is a leading international financial services group operating primarily as John Hancock in the U.S. and Manulife elsewhere. Manulife, which provides financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management for individuals, groups and institutions, managed and administered over C$1.3 trillion (US$1 trillion) at the end of 2022. In today’s constantly changing digital environment, Manulife […]
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On Jun. 7, Red Hat hosted its annual Women in Technology event, which celebrates the importance of women’s involvement in the technology industry, and gives women in the industry a space to talk about the barriers that still exist in tech today. From the venue in the Microsoft Canada head office on the 43rd floor […]
Octavia Howell isn’t a fan of ‘impostor syndrome’ — a theory created by psychologists in 1978 to explain why some high-achieving women feel they don’t deserve their jobs. “I think impostor syndrome is made up by stupid people who want to put other people down,” the CISO of Equifax Canada told the siberX Women in […]
E-learning platform and software company Redwood Performance Group has released a new interactive workplace simulation called GradForce Skills. It aims to help new hires with soft skill learning, such as writing emails, dealing with workplace conflict, critical thinking skills, and more. GradForce Skills was based on a successful collaboration between Redwood and Toronto Finance International […]
Over the past year, the Canadian government has announced it was investing C$17.6 million over three years, starting in 2022 – 2023, to to help 100,000 Canadians gain the skills they need to participate in the digital economy. This funding was created through the Digital Literacy Exchange Program (DLEP), launched in 2018, which aims to […]
ABC Life Literacy Canada is releasing new resources which aim to educate Canadians on online fraud. In 2022, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre received fraud and cybercrime reports totalling C$530 million in victim losses. This is an almost 40 per cent increase from 2021. In addition, The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre finds that fraud is rarely even […]
Thomson Reuters (TR) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have partnered to upskill TR’s female workforce and their cloud capabilities in India. This partnership dates back to 2021, when the Indian branch of internal mentoring group Women@Thomson Reuters (W@TR) partnered with Nuvola Academy, a cloud enablement program purpose-built for employees at TR, to build a cloud […]
Embracing equity is the major theme of the 2023 edition of International Women’s Day, which is taking place today, and the way Ruba Borno sees it, events like these and others can truly make a difference, particularly when it comes to attracting more women into the technology sector. Borno, vice president of worldwide channels and […]
Amazon Canada and TakingITGlobal, a charitable non-governmental organization which focuses on global issues through promotion of awareness and engagement among global youth, have launched the 2023 edition of Your Voice is Power. Your Voice is Power is a training program and remix competition that teaches coding skills to middle and high school students using music […]
Do you view yourself as an expert? How do you know? We need to be able to describe our skills and honestly say what level of expertise we have. The international (IFIP) code of ethics for IT that CIPS (Canadian Information Processing Society) is currently adopting says that we should “Perform work only in areas […]
Today, the government of Canada announced an investment of C$48.3 million, through the Sectoral Workforce Solutions Program, to train workers in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. Minister of Labour Seamus O’Regan Jr. made the announcement on behalf of Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion Carla Qualtrough at the Commons Theatre Verafin […]
