Opposition MPs hammered the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) on Tuesday for its role in not tightly overseeing the $59 million spent on the ArriveCAN app, but failed to get answers to repeated demands asking who made decisions. But as a report by Auditor General Karen Hogan last week spelled out, […]
Canadian organizations are nowhere near ready for the new environmental, social and governance standards and reporting regulations, a study finds. With the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) mandate, sustainability reporting pressures on Canadian companies are becoming demanding and complex. The mandate requires that, by 2025, companies both inside and outside the European Union have […]
CyberCatch Holdings Inc., a cybersecurity compliance and risk mitigation solutions provider, has announced the launch of its compliance assessment offering. The Digital Standards Manager is designed as a comprehensive solution that serves as a catch-all for digital technology compliance assessments within organizations. It contains, “A workflow engine, compliance tips, charts, reports and an evidence repository,” […]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and eight U.S. states are suing Google for allegedly monopolizing online advertising. The complaint, filed Tuesday in Virginia, alleges that Google monopolizes key digital advertising technologies, collectively referred to as the “ad tech stack,” that website publishers depend on to sell ads and that advertisers rely on to buy […]
The ability of victims of data theft in Ontario to sue organizations for failing to protect their information under a fledgling privacy right has been almost eliminated by a ruling of the province’s appeal court. However, in a decision that will be of interest to data privacy officers, chief information security officers, chief executive officers […]
This afternoon the Trudeau government begins its campaign to convince businesses that there’s nothing to fear in its second attempt to update the federal privacy law covering the private sector. Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne will address the Canadian Marketing Association’s online privacy conference on the new private-sector privacy law package, called the Digital Charter Implementation […]
Why enterprise architecture and IT are distinct There are often misunderstandings about what enterprise architecture is and who it is for. Frequently we think in terms of databases, computing platforms, user credentials, and everything else which might need to be put in place for a modern, fully-fledged organizational infrastructure. In fact, the lines with IT […]
Canadian privacy regulators are urging governments, health sector institutions, and health providers to strengthen the IT networks that support the country’s medical infrastructure. Following a meeting in Newfoundland this week, privacy commissioners and ombudsmen from the provinces and territories demanded authorities show “concerted effort, leadership, and resolve in implementing modern, secure and interoperable digital health […]
The CIO Strategy Council has announced that it is now inviting comments on the draft second edition of the National Standard of Canada for the fundamentals of digital trust and identity (CAN/CIOSC 103-1: 2020, Digital trust & Identity – Part 1), which specifies minimum requirements and a set of controls for creating and maintaining trust […]
Even as recession indicators sound the alarm, financial analysts and even central banks remain split on the likelihood of a recession. In July, Scotiabank economists downplayed the likelihood of Canada falling into a recession in 2022, pointing toward a high level of pent-up demand which should keep the Canadian economy from falling into a recession. […]
During a panel discussion on awareness training at the recent SC Congress security conference in Toronto two weeks ago an attendee described how an organization had been suckered for over $300,000 through the so-called business-executive scam. The man’s client, a financial institution had been curious why a customer hadn’t been making their regular payments for […]
The Canadian chapter of the Internet Society, dormant for over a decade, has been reborn. On Thursday night ISOC Canada’s last legally elected board of directors — who were chosen in 1996 — voted to transfer control to a new three-person interim board headed by Evan Leibovitch, a communications architect at Toronto’s York University and vice-chair […]
Filling the knowledge gap Murray Wills, managing director, Maxsys Murray Wills is a ‘virtual CIO’ for a range of private and public sector organisations. “Lately I have been presenting courses around the country in conjunction with the NZ Computer Society on the topic of IT Governance and, as part of this, raising awareness of the […]
LAS VEGAS–Oliver Bussmann, chief information officer with SAP AG, joined the Germany-based software company in 2009 to head the global IT department of 1,500 staff. He talked to ComputerWorld Canada at SAP TechEd about the goals and challenges of running a dispersed IT organization within SAP: ComputerWorld Canada: SAP’s very own IT department was the first […]
The first UK Internet Governance Forum (IGF) took place at the Houses of Parliament last week with representatives from the Specialist Crime Directorate, MPs and a British ambassador. IGF will share information between law enforcement, Internet service providers and charities for victims of abuse online, in order to discuss strategies to tackle online crime. The […]
Businesses that clutch on to arcane innovation practices are less likely to realize success than if they take an open, collaborative approach, according to senior IT industry analysts. Research director for IT analyst firm Hydrasight, John Brand, believes fewer than 20 percent of organizations have formal innovation programs in place and so face more failures […]
