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Government of Canada invests $49.5M to digitize and automate agriculture

The Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network (CAAIN) has received an investment of up to $49.5 million from the federal government. The $108.5 million project, aimed at developing exportable farming solutions, aims...

Canada poised to solidify fintech/proptech lead

With its enviable status as a consistent early adopter of tech solutions for financial services, Canada is well-placed to become a global leader in fintech and proptech innovations – and...

A Globalized Cloud For A Globalized World

The web of today is truly global. It spans ever more of the planet’s surface, bringing an ever-greater portion of its population into the global communications fold. Building for such...

What if analytics is more of a leadership than a technical problem?

We’ve been talking about analytics, data, big data and all that for a hot minute. Data scientist is supposedly “the sexiest job of the 21st century.” Meow. There are flaws here, of...

How to measure your organization’s cyber security maturity

Spending money on cyber security doesn’t prove an organization is getting better at it. Ask Nicholas Johnston, Toronto-based vice president of the global data risk group at Duff & Phelps,...

More IT security teams meeting business, maturity goals (study)

Security teams may finally understand how to forge strong defences against online attacks, a new report suggests. In its fifth annual State of Security Operations Report, which studies the efforts of 144...

Is it time for HR to get more “tech-y,” finally !?

Technology has enhanced our everyday lives, both at home and at work. While it seems like there’s a new tech fad every week, many technologies are here to stay. HR...

What Does It Mean To Live Our Entire Lives Under Digital Surveillance?

We live in a world in which our every word and action is recorded and preserved for perpetuity by myriad companies across the globe. Whether we post a video sharing...

Rating themselves, more infosec professionals think their security posture is improving

Students hate being graded. Wouldn’t life be easier, many wonder, if we could grade ourselves? Infosec pros from around the world have been given that chance by Domain Tools, who today...

Experts sound the alarm on readiness for Canada’s new privacy regulations

Businesses that haven’t started preparing for the new privacy rules coming to Canada this fall could be in for an unpleasant surprise, say experts. The new regulations under the Personal Information Protection...