Growing financial inclusion
Let's face it, when it comes to payment methods, we're spoiled. We can use credit cards, debit cards, digital wallets, or even good old...
SMB Summit – the wrap
Panel: Governance, risk, compliance, and cloud security
Michael O'Neil, principal analyst at InsightaaS set the stage for the SMB Summit governance, risk, compliance, and cloud...
BadRabbit and other vermin
There's a BadRabbit in town, and it's slamming European media outlets, as well as transportation and government organizations in the Ukraine and Russia. Some...
Vitamin Y: moving the dial on gender in tech
Context: The midst of the “#Me Too” campaign seems an auspicious time to call attention to a “Move the Dial” initiative aimed at addressing...
Cyber Security Month – books to build awareness
October is Cyber Security Awareness Month in Canada, an internationally recognized campaign aimed at informing the public on the importance of cyber security, and...
How can we fix stupid?
Hanlon's Razor says, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." In the wake of the Equifax data breach, 145.5 million...
ReMAPping value networks: only in Canada, eh?
Software may be eating the world, but when combined with hardware, it has potential to unleash new productive capacity, while ensuring that the fruits...
Spammers an enterprise unto themselves
The business world operates according to many well-entrenched patterns. Work schedules are defined based on labour and customer demands; a majority of day-to-day business...
Fintech gaining serious street cred
Fintech has become a major entry in the buzzword lexicon in recent years. While not a new concept – in fact, some consider fintech...
The future of encryption
What does a simultaneously dead and not-dead cat have to do with cybersecurity?
Quite a bit, as it turns out. Schrödinger's quantum kitty is the...
Cyber security lessons from the energy community
Any widespread disruption of electricity, water or gas can have huge impact on day-to-day life. Critical infrastructure must be failsafe, protected and resilient –...
Held for Ransom and WannaCry
Ransomware is big business.
In early May, the UK's National Health Service (NHS), along with hundreds of other organizations worldwide, was crippled by a massive...
Acceleration labs bridge the gap between incubation and commercialization
In today’s fast-paced technology environment, it’s not always easy for a large-scale enterprise to fast track an innovation agenda. While there are new ideas...
Digital transformation – new capability or new core?
For the past while, pundits have been telling us that every company will become an IT company, and, more recently, that every company will...
General Data Protection Regulation: from the EU with love
If you think that you're safe from needing to be compliant with the European Union's upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), think again. If...
