Dave Webb

Dave Webb is a freelance editor and writer. A veteran journalist of more than 20 years' experience (15 of them in technology), he has held senior editorial positions with a number of technology publications. He was honoured with an Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Business Journalism in 2000, and several Canadian Online Publishing Awards as part of the ComputerWorld Canada team.

Articles by Dave Webb

IT deserves its own day

Dell Canada has launched a petition for a National IT Day, recognizing "the hard-working men and women who keep our IT running -- even...

Predictions: 2011 as we see it

OPINION IT World Canada's editorial staff gaze into their crystal balls and call out what's going to be hot -- and what's not -- in the coming year

Bill C-28 and your inbox

OPINION Will Ottawa's freshly passed antispam legislation have an impact? Or will it simply be a burden to business?

Windows 8 on a tablet? Why?

Reports from our sister publication PC Advisor (UK) suggest that Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer will open the annual Consumer Electronics show with a...

This just in: Privacy is dead, Pope may be a Catholic

I'm a big fan of The Register, a U.K. Web site that brands itself as "Biting the hand that feeds IT." It's painfully tongue-in-cheek...

SC Congress cyber-attack demo, as it happened

On Wednesday at the SC Congress Security Conference and Expo, the show's big closing number was an on-stage simulation in real time of a...

Crimeware-as-a-Service

It's not news that cybercrime is big business. Here's a telling statistic from a presentation by Lance Wolrab, senior security engineer with SecureWorks, at...

What a DLP-mandated system might look like

OPINION At the SC Congress security conference, Ann Cavoukian expounds on her privacy by design concept. How data loss prevention technology could be a critical element

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