Thank you to everyone who made it out to Camp Secure Sense 2019! We appreciate each and every one of you that took time out of your professional and personal lives to come celebrate our 5th year anniversary. This event wouldn’t be possible without you all! Our day kicked off with Peter, our CEO, leading the opening ceremonies. From there Campers went right into the high energy morning icebreaker – Security Speed...
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By: Andy Green Data security is an all-encompassing term. It covers processes and technologies for protecting files, databases, applications, user accounts, servers, network logins, and the network itself. But if you drill down a little in your thinking, it’s easy to see that data security is ultimately protecting a file somewhere on your system—whether desktops or servers. While data security is a good umbrella term, we need to get into more...
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by: Jason Maynard As security practitioners we pride ourselves on our ability to respond quickly to remediate threats and minimize the impact they have on our business. We all know at some point a breach will happen. But the constant challenge of tight budgets, fragmented security technologies, and lack of automation doesn’t make the job any easier for Canadian security professionals. Imagine leveraging many technologies and batting down thousands of threats a...
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By: Matthew Balcer – SentinelOne Canada Most CIOs, CSOs, Security Analysts, Security Admins wake up every morning assuming that the solutions they’ve put in place, the solutions they have invested in on behalf of their organization, have kept their environment safe. This seems more like a general with his troops standing in a room with a ticking timebomb watching the clock hoping the triggering mechanism will fail. Over 80% of Canadian companies...
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Most IT teams only know if they are protected against a cyber attack when one actually occurs. Organizations spend considerable resources to ensure that they have the best defenses in place. Yet the only way to ascertain those tools’ effectiveness is by launching an offensive. Combining defensive and offensive attack strategies enables you to challenge your security infrastructure and ensure that when the moment of truth comes, your organization will...
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Tenable introduces Predictive Prioritization, a groundbreaking, data science-based process that re-prioritizes each vulnerability based on the likelihood it will be leveraged in an attack. Are you feeling overloaded by the number of vulnerabilities facing your organization daily? You’re not alone. There were 16,500 new vulnerabilities in 2018. The ‘good’ news is that only 7% of these vulnerabilities had a public exploit available and an even smaller subset is ever weaponized by threat...
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Partner, FireEye has released their most recent M-Trends report which looks at some of the significant trends and shifts of 2019, including the Hidden Phishing Risks During Mergers and Acquisitions. FireEye had previously discussed the risks of integrating a compromised organization into a parent organization back in their M-Trends 2012 report and this issue remains a large threat to organizations today. During a merger or acquisition, tight deadlines are in...
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We recently had an opportunity to deliver a presentation on FortiOS 6.0 at the Camp Secure Sense customer and partner conference in southern Ontario, Canada. With some of the most well-known organizations under the Maple Leaf Flag in attendance, the conversations that ensued from the presentation were quite interesting and fruitful. Our challenge in putting together the presentation for the conference was simple yet challenging. How do we describe a body...
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The Camp Secure Sense recap you’ve all been waiting for. Camp may have ended in June, but the memory will live on! We hope that everyone had a fantastic time and we are extremely thankful that over a 100 of you took time out of your professional and personal lives to experience Camp Secure Sense. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, this event wouldn’t be possible without you. To...
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The Internet of Things is emerging as one of the most significant technology developments of our time. Connecting people and things will be the new norm for consumers, but behind the scenes, IoT is already transforming how enterprises develop, market, distribute and sell products. The vast, fast-growing global network of Internet-connected devices and endpoints has led to a new stage in the digital transformation of enterprises – The Enterprise of Things. Today’s...
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