Howard Solomon

Currently a freelance writer, I'm the former editor of ITWorldCanada.com and Computing Canada. An IT journalist since 1997, I've written for several of ITWC's sister publications including ITBusiness.ca and Computer Dealer News. Before that I was a staff reporter at the Calgary Herald and the Brampton (Ont.) Daily Times. I can be reached at hsolomon [@] soloreporter.com

Articles by Howard Solomon

Infosec pros have shaky confidence in endpoint security: Survey

75 per cent of respondents said the most common security gap on their endpoint was out of date or unpatched software

Shared Services Canada’s response to Apache vulnerability proves its worth, says exec

Thanks to a combined security operations centre government was able to quickly respond, says COO. Read why he defends the controversial agency

Canadian cyber attack led to new mining industry threat sharing centre

The 2016 hack of Goldcorp led to the industry realizing it had to reduce vulnerability by sharing threat information

Persirai now biggest of IoT botnets

Four families of malware are now hunting for vulnerable IP-connected video cameras. Read what infosec pros should be doing

Canadian project shows potential for blockchain-based corporate registries

Proof of concept by IBM, B.C. and DIACC shows how blockchain could solve numerous problems

Canadian digital ID projects at centre of conference

At the annual Identity North conference talk was about an upcoming digital identification network and the release of a framework

Google improves Gmail phishing, forgery detection

New technique can delay suspicious messages for rigorous phishing analysis. Also G Suite subscribers can be warned when replying to messages sent from outside their domain

How to measure your organization’s cyber security maturity

Collecting random metrics like the number of patched systems isn't good enough. An expert shows how to go through a cyber security framework

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