Privacy Commissioners, rightfully, seem more incensed than ever when yet another loss of personal information occurs. Whether it's a server breach from poor firewalling or a lost laptop with unencrypted data, they know the technology is readily available to prevent the breach or make the loss of...

As a young salesman based in Edmonton, Alberta, I called on Syncrude in Fort McMurray. There were outrageous stories that flew around about the construction and early operations of this megaproject. Many of those, I am sure, urban legends. This one I picked up on the inside so I am...

I spend a fair bit of time and more than a few words talking about how to secure our businesses and our pocketbooks from electronic threats. So let's take a break from my rants on guarding our financial and corporate assets and talk about electronically protecting our most important assets:...

Surveying about data breach has always been a bit sketchy. No one wants to admit, even anonymously, they were breached. Data breach is embarrassing. And if word gets out it happened, costly, brand-wise, liability-wise, and otherwise. Ticking boxes on surveys about "the incident" makes the mouse of any executive twitch,...

I remember when seat belts became law in Ontario. It was 1976, I was still in high school, and, ironically, it was the first year I had my driver's license. They must have seen me coming. My dad, God rest his hard-arguing, intensely self-determined soul, made a convincing case that...