Tag: IT management & control
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...
Citizen everything
We live in a world where lines are blurring between professionals and amateurs. Except we're no longer calling them "amateurs" – they're now "citizen"...
Share alike for machine learning
Every year there’s a tech trend that starts to dominate conversations. With announcement of NextAI, there’s a lot of buzz in Canada right now...
Year of the bots
When most of us hear the term ‘bot’, we think of the infamous botnets that bombard us with malware-laden spam or deliver automated denial...
Vitamin Y: VMware’s “transition year”
Context: Pat Gelsinger was in town this month on what is emerging as a regular bi-annual tour to talk with major Canadian customers. While...
The ugly truth about ransomware
Recent media coverage of hospitals attacked by ransomware in Ottawa and Norfolk County has alerted everyone to the inherent dangers – and complexity –...
Stop helping me!
When Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be a free upgrade to systems running Windows 7 and higher, individuals and companies alike smiled, albeit...
Mabel’s Labels explores Office 365
Background:
Mabel’s Labels was established in 2003 as a home-based business by four Hamilton-based mothers. The waterproof label for children’s items company has grown...
Serving the common good: intelligence sharing in an era of automation
Vincent Weafer is a long term veteran of the IT industry and cyber security battleground. A former VP of Symantec’s security response unit, as...
Scalar Decisions launches Advanced SOC in new TO home
Context: Canadian solutions integrator Scalar Decisions is at a high peak in its growth trajectory, and has the new digs to prove it. This...
Eigen Innovations seizing Industrial IoT opportunity
Measuring IoT potential is a bit of dark art. Unlike other forecast areas in the tech world, where tangible products and solutions have SKUs,...
SAS takes analytics into the network
When Dr. James Goodnight and his partners founded the SAS Institute in 1976 after running almost a decade as a successful academic project at...
FOCUS 15 trains lens on the Threat Detection Lifecycle
The proliferation of technology – and how we consume it – are having profound effects on our productivity, work styles and service delivery. But...
The great communications divide
The saying goes that talk is cheap. But when it comes to managing an IT project, the wrong talk can mean considerable costs and...
Drawing the lines between Collabmobilicloud
Is cloud a solution? Are collaboration and mobility technology outcomes? Or is a solution the answer to a user’s problems? Increasingly, in a new...
