Welcome to Cyber Security Today. From Toronto, this is the Week in Review edition for Friday May 13th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
In a few minutes Terry Cutler, head of Montreal’s Cyology Labs, will join me for a discussion about three recent news stories. But first a look back at some of what happened in the past seven days:
Yesterday was Anti-Ransomware Day. Everybody’s against ransomware, but what can IT leaders do about it? Terry will have some answers.
Speaking of ransomware, we’ll have a few words to say about a proposal to fine Colonial Pipeline after last year’s ransomware attack in the U.S. Why? Because the company’s incident response plan allegedly wasn’t thorough.
And we’ll also look at the acknowledgment by Ikea Canada that an employee searched through the company’s customer database in March without permission.
Also this week, the director of cybersecurity at the National Security Agency told a British cyber event that the number of ransomware attacks worldwide has gone down in recent months. He suspects it’s because economic sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine…
