Cybersecurity Skills Shortage: A Hiring Manager’s Perspective
As part of our “security takes a village” focus, we are exploring how stakeholders other than a dedicated cybersecurity or IT team can help keep your organization secure. In this post, Alyssa Miller, IntelliGO Networks’ Human Resources Manager, discusses a cybersecurity consideration with implications for HR teams: the cybersecurity talent ... Read More
Social Engineering’s Weakness? An Empowered Work Culture
One of our more popular posts last year dealt with the creation of a cybersecurity-conscious work culture. Today, we explore how the culture of your organization can help prevent an increasingly common (and non-technical) tactic used by hackers: social engineering. The cultural aspect is: how acceptable it is to challenge, ... Read More
Exploring Barriers to Justice in Cybersecurity with Eliott Behar
In 2018, we saw some interesting developments in how law enforcement addressed cybercrime; the FBI named Chinese nationals as part of the APT 10 group and charged suspects in Iran with perpetrating the SamSam Ransomware attacks. IntelliGO detects when incidents like these occur, responds to them, and enables our clients ... Read More
Achieving a Security-Conscious Work Culture
Security-consciousness is more natural for some organizations than others. For certain industries, like finance or data management, it is almost ‘built-in’… but, all companies are a target for data breaches and ransomware, and employees are a primary entry-point for hackers, so how mindful your people are of security risks is ... Read More
PIPEDA Best Practices Achieved with MDR
Last week, changes to the Personal Information Protection & Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) went into effect. Our CTO, Adam Mansour, wrote about the changes, and how our MDR service could help overcome new disclosure, reporting, and data retention requirements. Today we turn our attention to twelve tips for containing and ... Read More
PIPEDA Best Practices Achieved with MDR – Part 2
The previous part of this post discussed tips that the Office of the Privacy Commission of Canada (OPC) issued in anticipation of the November changes to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). Those tips fell under the first two of four directives they offered. We cover the ... Read More
Google+ Data Exposure: How Long Do You Retain Logs?
With the recent coverage of the exposure of personal information within Google+ and the announcement of its closure, one might be tempted to discuss how the existence of vulnerabilities and subsequent failure to disclose them can lead to the closure of your service… except that many suspected, and Google has ... Read More
