Author: Asad Yaseen

More COVID scams, reporter tricked by phony Harvard job offer, and Uber wins and Twitter loses in Canadian courts. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday January 18th. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. To hear the podcast click on the arrow below: More COVID-19 related scams pop up every day. But not all of them directly involve the vaccine or health products. Cybersecurity provider Proofpoint has collected a few of the…

We’re not going to lie: implementing an ISO 27001-compliant ISMS (information security management system) can be a challenge. But as the saying goes, nothing worth having comes easy, and ISO 27001 is definitely worth having. If you’re just getting started with ISO 27001, we’ve compiled this 9 step implementation checklist to help you along the way. Step 1: Assemble an implementation team Your first task is to appoint a project leader to oversee the implementation…

Almost exactly a year ago, cybersecurity professionals were locked in a heated debate about insurance. While some were keen to point out that the future of the industry would need to include some form of insurance market, others argued that cyber insurance would never be worth the premiums, especially given the inherently volatile nature of cybersecurity. The pandemic has changed all of that. According to the FBI, cyberattacks have increased by almost 400% since the…