The Whole Chain is Made from Weakest Links!

Chain

The Whole Chain is Made from Weakest Links! By Dr. Thomas P. Keenan, FCIPS, I.S.P., ITCP in collaboration with Ron Murch, I.S.P., ITCP – both with the University of Calgary. In a session conducted by Derek Manky, Chief of Security Insights, FortiGuard Labs, and moderated by Bobby Singh, CTO and CISO for the TMX Group, …

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How Do I Know You’re You?

By Dr. Thomas P. Keenan, FCIPS, I.S.P., ITCP in collaboration with Ron Murch, I.S.P., IPCP – both with the University of Calgary. Some of Canada’s leading Chief Information Security Officers spent an hour discussing the increasing vexing problems of  Identity Management. In a session conducted by Derek Mankey, Chief of Security Insights, Fortiguard Labs, and …

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What Keeps Canada’s Top CISOs Up at Night?

Awake at Night CISOs

By Dr. Thomas P. Keenan, FCIPS, I.S.P., ITCP in collaboration with Ron Murch, I.S.P., IPCP – both with the University of Calgary. What happens when you put a dozen of Canada’s leading Chief Information Security Officers into a (virtual) room for a frank discussion of their biggest challenges? In a session led by Derek Manky, …

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CIO Association of Canada Joins the Canadian Cybersecurity Alliance

August 25, 2016 CIOCAN is pleased to announce that it will be participating in the Canadian Cybersecurity Alliance (CCA) / Alliance canadienne sur la cybersécurité (ACC).  The CCA-ACC (originally initiated as the Inter-Association Working Group on Cyber Security – IAWGCS) is a voluntary, non-hierarchical, not-for-profit, agile network, founded by Grant Lecky in 2013. The primary purpose of …

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The Board of Directors’ Responsibility for Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

Kelly Friedman, Partner, DLA Piper (Canada) LLP recently spoke at a Toronto Chapter event acheiving some of the highest speaker ratings we have seen.  Kelly recently posted a blog offering further insights that CIOs should read. In December 2015, Wyndham Worldwide Corporation entered into a significant settlement with the FTC requiring the company to put …

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