National Security, the Economy and COVID-19: Fifty Shades of the Grey Zone
COVID-19. It’s the stuff that gripping, suspense-filled movies are made of: A new virus of a mysterious origin emerges in…
Strong, Secure, Engaged: Canada’s Cybersecurity and Cyber Defence Update
Conflict and warfare have seen drastic changes in recent decades, mostly due to globalization, technology and geo-political and economic power…
Insider Threats, Informants and Whistleblowers: Different Animals, Same Stripes?
Along with Atomic Blonde and Kraftidioten, one of my all-time favourite movies is The Informant! A brilliant biographical-comedy, The Informant!…
Spies Among Us: Are We Blind To Insider Threats?
Playing out almost daily, the world’s most impactful nations masterfully engage in various tactics, like sanctions, tariffs, and detainments, for…
Artificial Intelligence: The Black Box Conundrum
The one thing guaranteed to make me laugh out loud is Boston Dynamics’ video of their robot-dog, SpotMini, slipping on…
Strong, Secure, Engaged: The Cyber Extract
Lately, hardly a day goes by without media headlines stringing out the latest on the SNC Lavalin scandal with proliferous…
The Perfect Cut-Out: When Global Politics, Espionage and Greed Converge with Technology
Fluid, agile and accessible – the malicious use of technology can range from simple, uncoordinated attacks to complex, highly coordinated…
Technology and Philosophy: An Exoteric View of Zero-Trust and Federated Identity
Whether it is a malicious attack or an inadvertent release on protected or classified data, a breach of government data…
What Canada can learn from Israel and Estonia’s rise to cybersecurity royalty: It’s complicated
A little over a year ago, I had the pleasure of presenting at CANARIE’s 2017 National Summit in Ottawa with my good…
Implied Trust … in Supply Chain Security – Part Two
Last month, my column “Implied Trust, Presumed Secure and Other Dangers of Supply Chain” covered supply chain security in the…
Game Changer: Louis Bibeau, President and CEO, Logistik
After several years with the department of foreign affairs as vice-consul in Marseilles and then in Boston, Louis Bibeau was…
Game Changer: David E. Luxton, President, DEFSEC Corporation and Executive Chairman, KWESST Micro Systems Inc.
David Luxton has a lot of experience working in the defence and security industry. For over 30 years, he has…
Game Changer: Natasha McLean, VP, Serco Canada Inc.
Natasha McLean began working in the defence industry about 20 years ago. Prior to that time, she was working in…