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

Time to get tougher with staff to improve cyber security?

A columnist says IT has to adopt both persuasive and coercive measures to improve security awareness. How far should it go?

Ransomware attacks on insecure Hadoop systems may be next, say security researchers

Judging by patterns in recent MongoDB and Elasticsearch attacks Hadoop could be the next target, reason researchers. Read what to do

Hunt teams no substitute for real-time threat analysis, says report

Latest study of SOCs by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise shows hunt teams, fusion centres growing

New Brunswick university opens Canadian Institute for Cyber Security

Institute starts with $4.5 million in financing, promising to be a hub for research, training and industry collaboration

Elasticsearch users increasingly targets of ransomware

Clusters used for analysis of log and other data shouldn't be open to the Internet, advises expert

Cloud security spending to increase in 2017, says vendor

CASB provider Bitglass predicts IT spend will move away from traditional on-prem security providers

Canadian infosec pros still too confident they can protect enterprise, says Accenture

Respondents say on average one-third of attacks discovered in previous 12 months are getting through defences

How to secure remote management software

A European security researcher offers tips on ensuring threat actors don't make use of a a common management tool

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