An analysis by Sophos suggests that the latest attack is similar to one that Kaseya endured in 2018. Kaseya issued its annual IT operations report only three days before getting hit by a ransomware attack. The report’s first finding was incredibly and unfortunately accurate: Improving IT security remains top priority amid a rise in cyberattacks. According to an analysis by Sophos, the bad actors behind this attack “not only found a new vulnerability in Kaseya’s…

Cloud is a top priority for IT organizations of all sizes looking to leverage scalable and elastic infrastructure services to develop new applications fast and deliver their most critical business applications. Over 76% of organizations employ a hybrid cloud strategy to gain flexibility in their application deployments, disaster recovery, and scalability needs. VMware Cloud on AWS is a jointly engineered solution by VMware and AWS to provide a VMware Cloud Foundation (based on vSphere) as…

Learn the three areas of technical-debt accumulation that business and IT leaders need to monitor in order to reduce cybersecurity or business continuity incidents. Image: monstArrr_, Getty Images/iStockphoto Getting products to market before they are ready can result in lawsuits, product recalls and cybercrime. If your family car is recalled, it’s inconvenient, but cybersecurity events such as the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and the Fastly global outage become much more than an inconvenience. As to…

We live in a world that thrives on digital connectivity. According to We Are Social, Canadians are now spending half a day more a month online than they did a year ago. Also, 33 million Canadians logged on to the internet at least once a month in 2020. As more people every year are spending hours upon hours online, they are knowingly (and sometimes unknowingly) unsafely releasing their personal information into the digital ether, making them vulnerable to all sorts of…

We live in a world that thrives on digital connectivity. According to We Are Social, Canadians are now spending half a day more a month online than they did a year ago. Also, 33 million Canadians logged on to the internet at least once a month in 2020. As more people every year are spending hours upon hours online, they are knowingly (and sometimes unknowingly) unsafely releasing their personal information into the digital ether, making them vulnerable to all sorts of…