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…
Jacques Comtois, Director of Canadian Operations, Arcfield Canada
As one of this month’s Game Changers, the Vanguard team sat down with Jacques Comtois, the Director of Canadian Operations…
Kelly Hancock, Director of Finance – Canada LAV Site, General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada
A Game Changer in her own right, Kelly Hancock is the Director of Finance – Canada LAV Site at General…
Duncan McSporran, Chief Operating Officer and Vice-President, Defence & Public Sector , Kognitiv Spark
What is the best advice you received? Lead, follow or get out of the way. What people or organizations do…