June 2022 was when the first reading of Bill C-26 was done in parliament. The full title of the Bill is: “Act Respecting Cyber Security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts”. Bill C-26 can also be called “ARCS” for short. If you want to dig into the actual wording on [...]
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Bill C-26 (ARCS) and what it means for Cybersecurity in Canada – Part 2 (Banking Systems & Clearing and Settlement Systems)
June 2022 was when the first reading of Bill C-26 was done in parliament. The full title of the Bill is: “Act Respecting Cyber Security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts”. Bill C-26 can also be called "ARCS" for short. If you want to dig into the actual wording on [...]
Bill C-26 and what it means for Cybersecurity in Canada – Part 1 (Telecommunications Services)
June 2022 was when the first reading of Bill C-26 was done in parliament. The full title of the Bill is: "An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts." If you want to dig into the actual wording on the bill, have a gander at it here. [...]
Recommendations to Improve the Resilience of Canada’s Digital Supply Chain
This is a summary of the document published by the Supply Chain Assurance Working Group (SCAWG), from the Canadian Forum for Digital Infrastructure Resilience (CFDIR). In June of 2022, version 0.1 of the document "Recommendations to Improve the Resilience of Canada’s Digital Supply Chain" was published here. This was created in response to the compromise [...]
30 days of Cyber Nights – Day 1 – Hacking Starlink
Lennert Wouters, a security researcher at the Belgian University KU Leuven, has shown a working example of how to bypass the security of the Starlink User Terminal to gain access to other functions that are not normally available to users. The presentation was done at BlackHat USA 2022. Here is a link to the writeup by [...]
VMworld 2018 sessions with Daemon Behr
This year I am presenting two sessions at VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas. Register for CODE5543U here. Register for VMTN7703U here.
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Podcast – 004 – Rubrik MSP Model
Earlier this year at the Toronto VMUG UserCon, I had the opportunity to speak with Demetrius Malbrough, Technical Marketing Engineer at Rubrik.
Podcast – 003 – VMware Enterprise Blockchain Solutions
In April, I had the pleasure of speaking in detail to Michael DiPetrillo, Senior Director of Blockchain Technologies at VMware.
Podcast – 002 – Beyond Bitcoin – VMware and the future of blockchain technology
In January, at the VMware HQ in Palo Alto, I had the opportunity to interview Dahlia Malkhi, the principal researcher and founding member of VMware research.