Canada’s economy is built upon the success of our citizens, their ingenuity and innovations. WinMagic CEO, Thi Nguyen-Huu speaks of his passion for innovation in building WinMagic, its comprehensive data security solutions, and the value that we bring to our customers in this video produced by Collins Barrow, one of Canada’s largest associations of chartered accounting firms, in celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday!
The Key to Protecting Data, Featuring Gartner
If there is one absolute truth in business, it’s that data is now everywhere. Big or small, companies wrestle with keeping data secure with an ever expanding mobile and agile workforce. Increasingly companies are turning to endpoint encryption as the answer to protecting their data.
The 6 Point Data Security Spring Cleaning Checklist
As an enterprise, you should not need an occasion to ensure that your security practices are up-to-date, fine-tuned and resilient. However, when immersed in the day-to-day it’s easy to overlook or neglect some of the standard best practices to securing your environment. The first signs of spring seem to trigger an inherent need to clean, and it’s no longer isolated to the garage or the cottage. It’s easy and worthwhile to apply the concept of spring cleaning, an annual event, to getting your security house in order too.
Here’s a 6 point checklist to get you started!
Overcoming Weak Password Compliance
Have you taken the #LayerUP pledge? It’s an ingenious way to get people’s attention on a topic that might be considered frivolous, but which could result in some rather costly consequences if not followed – and that topic is Password Compliance. In enterprises, getting all of the employees to adopt password best practices on a consistent basis can be very difficult – especially since its human nature to use repetitive patterns or familiar phrases as passwords. Why? Because password requirements are everywhere, and the demand from IT departments to make them lengthier and more complex continue to grow and well, let’s be honest, the more passwords you have, the more likely you are to forget them.
5 Qs Security Professionals Should ask as they Move to the Cloud
Have you heard of the great migration of Modern IT to the Cloud? It’s not new, revolutionary or innovative, and many enterprises are doing it. But what we are seeing is, regardless of industry, migrating to a cloud solution is occurring for a myriad of different reasons – from strategic reasons, to the flexibility, productivity and cost-savings gained by moving workloads and storage from on-site to the Cloud.
Keep Data on the Right Side of the Law with Encryption
I reflect today on two online article headlines that recently captured my attention – “Legal firms prime target for cybercriminals warn experts” and “500 law firms targeted by scammers”. I wonder how an industry that has been historically known as the stalwarts of client privilege and protection has come into the crosshairs of cybercriminals.
Protecting Data Privacy: a Shared Responsibility
Data Privacy Day is a reminder that the privacy of data – corporate and personal – increases in importance year after year. And it’s amazing that this year, on January 28th, Data Privacy Day turns 10. You may recall another interesting announcement that occurred in January 2007 – the introduction of the Apple iPhone. Perhaps this was sheer coincidence, or maybe this was the foresight to know that the dawn of rapid data collection and sharing by individuals was about to create an evolution of data security challenges we’d never witnessed before.