Despite the money being poured into cybersecurity by IT departments, the leading cause of breaches of security controls was the failure of technology to detect an attack, a new survey from Trellix suggests. Forty-two per cent of respondents to the international survey of infosec leaders whose organization had suffered a recent cyber attack said their […]
Increasing cyber attacks and the pressures COVID put on organizations is making chief security officers and their equivalents think of the unthinkable: Quitting. In fact, Gartner believes by 2025/26, almost half of current CSOs will have left their job for another post, and of them, 25 per cent will leave cybersecurity. Some call this The […]
A single infographic released recently by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) revealed the extent of the current cybersecurity staffing crisis. One stat that rang alarm bells everywhere was this: At a time when there is acute demand from corporate boards to increase cybersecurity headcounts, the worldwide shortage of skilled resources last year […]
Janet Lin It’s 2008 and Janet Lin is in a fancy ballroom in downtown Toronto meeting with a dozen male bank executives. She’s there to discuss the launch of an industry-breaking financial product. “I am this young, little woman in this room of power,” said Janet. She may have looked like an outlier, but she had […]
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) role has evolved dramatically in recent years, and in 2023, with the proliferation of incredible new technologies as well as highly sophisticated cyber-attacks, the CISO role has never been more important. But with this increased profile, the challenge becomes much greater. Scope is one issue. The CISO role was […]
New research reveals that almost 46 per cent of female tech professionals are experiencing burnout. Mason Frank International, a Tenth Revolution Group company, conducted a study on burnout, specifically amongst women in cloud tech roles. The research found that a further seven per cent were unsure about how burnout was impacting them, indicating that more […]
Sustainability goals cannot be achieved without significantly reducing the energy usage of technology infrastructure, a study from Pure Storage reveals. Pure Storage, an American technology company which develops all-flash data storage hardware and software products, partnered with Wakefield Research to survey over 1,000 sustainability managers in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany. The Drivers of […]
A Canadian university-associated business accelerator for helping early-stage cybersecurity companies says its first two years of operation have been more than satisfactory. The Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst Accelerator has had “an incredible impact” on Canadian cybersecurity entrepreneurs and founders, executive director Charles Finlay said this week in the first report on the program’s progress. Despite having […]
Most companies and organizations are now fully in transformation mode, changing continuously on not only the process level, but also in terms of business model, culture, and domain or market. NATO CIO Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer has seen a lot of leadership philosophy changes in his career: from an autocratic top-down setup to something more consensus-based. “I […]
New research from Gartner reveals that 72 per cent of high tech leaders in the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe have plans to grow revenue this year. The company’s survey found that almost half of those leaders believe they will be able to outperform their competition in 2023. The survey, conducted in the second half […]
When you picture a typical work conference, a four walled room with tables and a screen comes to mind. There may be a table for drinks and food and some presentations throughout the day. Now imagine a work conference, but instead of business casual clothing, you’re wearing skis and you’re on a ski hill. The […]
The DMZ’s Women Founders Summit wrapped up this week after focusing on funding and pitching opportunities for female entrepreneurs. The DMZ, Toronto Metropolitan University’s business incubator for early-stage technology startups, hosted the summit in honour of International Women’s Day and was designed to highlight women founders disrupting the Canadian tech space. According to reports from […]
It may take up to three decades before organizations achieve gender parity in leadership roles, a new study from IBM reveals. “Women in Leadership: Why perception outpaces the pipeline and what to do about it,” the 2023 study by the IBM Institute for Business Value, surveyed 2,500 individuals from 12 countries and 10 industries. Some […]
Infosec leaders are still behind in cybersecurity basics, leaving their organizations unnecessarily open to attacks, says the vice-president of Microsoft Security. Cyber attacks aren’t successful because they are getting more sophisticated, Kelly Bissell told the siberX CISO Forum Canada on Tuesday. “Ninety-eight per cent of attacks are elementary,” he said, and take advantage of unpatched […]
Imagine an adult in front of you talking in an unintelligible foreign language. That, says Jeffrey Wheatman, is how most chief information security officers (CISOs) sound to their boards and senior management. Wheatman, the cyber evangelist for U.S.-based IT supply chain security ratings service Black Kite, gave that analogy during his presentation Monday to the annual […]
Many boards don’t make put privacy as one of their organization’s priorities, a survey of professionals suggests. According to the annual state of privacy survey of members of ISACA (formerly known as the Information Systems Audit and Control Association) — released in conjunction with Data Privacy Week — 22 per cent feel their boards don’t […]
By Peter Near, National Director of Technology – Canada at VMware The role of the Chief Information Officer is continuing to evolve as information itself changes – including how it is stored, how it is secured and how we consume it. This message was loud and clear in IT World Canada’s recently released annual Canadian […]
Mohammad Qureshi has had a varied and interesting career that has led to his current position as Government of Ontario CIO and Associate Deputy Minister. “I got my start with a clean water agency fixing laptops and PCs,” Qureshi told ITWC CIO Jim Love in a recent episode of the ITWC podcast series Leadership in […]
Merriam-Webster defines an influencer as someone who inspires or guides the actions of others, and throughout this year, we have covered a multitude of them on IT World Canada, IT Business, Channel Daily News and Direction Informatique. One of the joys of being a journalist is the opportunity to speak with and write about these […]
CISOs increasingly brief boards on their organization’s cybersecurity strategies and risk profile. But a new survey of directors suggests sometimes it’s a game of broken telephone. On average, 65 per cent of the board members of large organizations in 10 countries surveyed thought their organization is at risk of a material cyber attack in the […]
Welcome to Hashtag Trending, the Weekend Edition, where we have interviews with experts and thought leaders that help us explore news and trends in technology. This week we are featuring an interview I did with Jim Balsillie. Jim is known throughout the world as the co-founder of Research In Motion (RIM), the company that gave […]
Mark Bryant has worn two hats for more than a year in his dual roles as CIO of PCL, a group of multi-national, independent construction companies, and CEO of Latium Technologies, an end-to-end solutions provider for IoT technology. He suspects there will come a time when it becomes too much, but for now he’s enjoying […]
Jennifer Quaglietta has led countless initiatives that have a positive impact on the health of Canadians. As Vice President, Performance Excellence and Information Services at Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada (HIROC), she applies her expertise as a biomedical and industrial engineer to building relationships that will support the healthcare sector for generations to come. “I’m […]
Some leaders pay lip service to the notion of lifelong learning, opting instead to settle for what they already know. Bobby Singh was taught to learn something new every day and continues to follow this sage advice. “Almost 20 years ago, I made a commitment to myself that each day I would do something that […]
