There have been no major interruptions to the North American electricity supply since the blackout of August 2003, at least on the same scale.

But that doesn’t mean there haven’t been plenty of “incidents,” as Bryan Singer calls them. We — the public — just haven’t heard about them.

Retail giant TJX, which owns Winners and HomeSense in Canada, made headlines when it compromised 45.7 million customer accounts. But it also forced change. Breach notification laws, where businesses are required to notify clients in the case of a data breach, have been spreading across the U.S. Now legislative reviews of Canadian laws are heading in the same direction.

No one really knows the true magnitude of business losses due to fraud, as the vast majority of incidents aren’t reported to authorities.

In a $4.5 million deal, Unisys Canada Inc. has been selected by the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) to supply, integrate and manage a new identification management system for 29 airports throughout Canada.

When you’re the head of one of the world’s largest IT security companies, everyone wants your advice.
Dave DeWalt, president and CEO of McAfee, made a recent visit to southern Ontario to speak to customers and partners about the threats they should be most concerned about.

Overseeing the development of security infrastructure at an Olympic site is familiar territory for Brian Phillips.
During the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics he was part of the RCMP’s Integrated Security Unit. In 2010, he will be looking at things from a slightly different vantage point in Vancouver as the director of public safety for Bell Security Solutions.