SecTor 2019 Press Room

07/11/19 “Security In Depth: Your Guide to SecTor 2019” – Link

18/10/19 “What infosec pros can learn from Tony Stark” – Link

18/10/19 “Password lessons: Longer is better, so is salt” – Link

17/10/19 “Is Blockchain the Key to Cloud Security?” – Link

17/10/19 “Canadian Cybersecurity Legislation Lacking, Survey Finds” – Link

13/10/19 “A Visit To SecTor 2019” – Link

11/10/19 “SecTor 2019: The past, present, and future of malware” – Link

11/10/19 “#SecTorCa: Finding a New Route to Solve Tomorrow’s Cyber-Attacks” – Link

11/10/19 “SecTor 2019: Experts say more resources needed to meet cybersecurity skills shortage” – Link

11/10/19 “#SecTorCa: Millions of Phones Leaking Information Via Tor” – Link

09/10/19 “SecTor 2019: How to survive a ransomware attack” – Link

Sector 2018 Press Room

18/11/18 “How to win at cloud security” – Link

09/10/18 “Canadian government IT security boss on Huawei: 5G review isn’t over yet “ – Link

05/10/18 “How to Enable Developers to Build Secure Software” – Link

05/10/18 ” Spotting cryptojacking, a phone scam and a dangerous fax con “ – Link

05/10/18 “SecTor 2018: How to help developers write secure code “ – Link

04/10/18 “Endpoint Security: It’s Way More Complicated than You Think” – Link

04/10/18 “SecTor 2018: Why the cloud means new ways of thinking about security “ – Link

04/10/18 ” SecTor 2018: Security industry is ‘squandering opportunity’” – Link

03/10/18 “How Ashley Madison Recovered From Its Massive Data Breach” – Link

03/10/18 ” SecTor 2018: Make better use of logs to improve security, staff satisfaction” – Link

03/10/18 “Why Organizations Should Embrace Friendly Hackers” – Link

03/10/18 “SecTor 2018: Canadian firms not quite ready for new mandatory breach notification” – Link

02/10/18 ” How the Government of Canada Is Improving Cyber-Security” – Link

Sector 2017 Press Room

22/12/17 “Top Canadian cyber security stories of 2017” – Link

01/12/17 ” Robots and the Future of Cyber Regulation” – Link

30/11/17 ” Bruce Schneier on IoT, Threats and Regulations | SecTor 2017″ – Link

27/11/17 “Focus on security basics and be good at them, says risk consultant” – Link

21/11/17 “Tips for tuning a SIEM” – Link

17/11/17 ” SecTor 2017 Photos and Recap” – Link

17/11/17 “SecTor Highlights Need for More Trust and Cyber-Security Regulations” – Link

17/11/17 “Build Playbooks to Meet Emerging Threats, SecTor Conference Told” – Link

16/11/17 “Simple hacks save IT security dollars” – Link

16/11/17 “Hacking Blockchain with Smart Contracts to Control a Botnet” – Link

16/11/17 “Focus on Security Basics and Be Good At Them, says Risk Consultant” – Link

16/11/17 “SecTor: What the Story of David vs Goliath Teaches Cyber-Security” – Link

16/11/17 “Government Regulation of IoT Coming, SecTor Conference Told” – Link

15/11/17 ” Schneier: It’s Time to Regulate IoT to Improve Cyber-Security “ – Link

15/11/17 “Canada’s new Cyber Security Strategy will be Based on 5 principles: Senior Official” – Link

15/11/17 “Researcher Provides Insight Into North Korea Cyber-Army Tactics” – Link

15/11/17 “Why Networking, Not Just Work on Networks, Helps an Infosec Career” – Link

15/11/17 “Defining a New Model for Cyber-Security Trust with Blockchain” – Link

14/11/17 “How the Government of Canada Plans To Set CyberSecurity Policy” – Link

14/11/17 “EAP-TLS Detailed as WiFi Security Best Practice at SecTor” – Link

07/11/17 “Comparing Marketing Slogans with What Happens in the Real World of Endpoint Security” – Link

1/11/17 “How Wireless Intruders Can Bypass NAC Controls” – Link

24/10/17 “Extending Bloodhound for Red Teamers” – Link

27/09/17 “Press Release – SecTor 2017 Speaker Lineup Announced” – PDF

Sector 2016 Press Room

31/10/16 “Are CAs keeping your mobile devices secure?” – Link

25/10/16 “Data-driven defence will best protect enterprises, says expert” – Link

24/10/16 “DDoS attack signals time for a two-tier Internet to boost security” – Link

24/10/16 “Ransomware gets creative, targets smartphones” – Link

anti-virus rants 21/10/16 “highlights from #sector2016” – Link

21/10/16 “Over 70,000 Canadian credit cards suddenly on sale on dark web: SecTor” – Link

21/10/16 “SecTor Features Snowden Appearance, Call to Secure All the ‘Things’” – Link

20/10/16 “Women feel like interlopers among men in IS, SecTor conference told” – Link

20/10/16 “Better trained people, not technology, will improve cyber security, SecTor told” – Link

19/10/16 “What Makes Ransomware the Worst Type of Malware” – Link

19/10/16 “SecTor: Retaking Surrendered Ground, Making Better Decisions to Fight Cyber-crime” – Link

19/10/16 “Only do penetration tests if your security program is up to it, say experts” – Link

19/10/16 “Snowden: ‘Politics of fear’ keep Trudeau from repealing Canada anti-terror law” – Link

18/10/16 “Over 100 groups cashing in on ransomware, Canadian infosec pros told” – Link

18/10/16 “Businesses cooperate with government mass surveillance at their peril, says Edward Snowden” – Link

18/10/16 “Snowden says Trudeau afraid to kill anti-terrorism bill” – Link

18/10/16 “Snowden Offers His Take on Security Today” – Link

05/10/16 “The Security Problems of an 11 Year Old “ – Link

29/09/16 “How to Increase the Number of Women in Information Security” – Link

17/08/16 “Press Release – Christopher Pogue returns to SecTor 2016 “ – PDF

14/07/16 “Whistleblower Edward Snowden to keynote Toronto conference” – Link

14/07/16 “Edward Snowden to keynote Toronto Security Education conference” – Link

14/07/16 “What’s Next For Canada’s Surveillance Landscape?” – Link

14/07/16 “Press Release – Edward Snowden Speaking at SecTor 2016” – PDF

17/05/16 “Press Release – SecTor Celebrates 10 Years with Impressive Speaker Line-Up” – PDF

Sector 2015 Press Room

27/10/15 “Messages from the Front Lines: Pizzo, Cavoukian and Brown at SecTor2015” – PDF

26/10/15 “Apple vs. Google: If you get hacked, which account could be bigger trouble?” – PDF

25/10/15 “Why Modern IT Security Is Like Aviation—100 Years Ago” – Link

23/10/15 “Keeping Organizations Secure in an Era of Cloud Apps, Millennials and Agile Development” – PDF

23/10/15 “Lock Pick Meets Hack Lab – a Virtual Introduction” – PDF

23/10/15 “Microsoft Runs the Largest Botnets to Protect Azure Customers” – PDF

23/10/15 “Privacy by Design Does Not Sacrifice Security “ – PDF

22/10/15 “SecTor 2015: Make detailed incident reports public, CISOs told” – PDF

22/10/15 “Microsoft Runs the Largest Botnets and Gets Stolen Passwords – All to Keep Customers Safe” – PDF

21/10/15 “Why you should be worried about IoT security even if you won’t buy into it” – PDF

21/10/15 “SecTor 2015: Take advantage of changing threat landscape, CISOs told” – PDF

21/10/15 “SecTor 2015: How Toronto’s Pam Am Games blocked security problems” – PDF

20/10/15 “Meet the Real-Life Mr. Robot” – PDF

21/09/15 “Just 30 days until the 9^th Annual SecTor Security Education Conference Toronto” – PDF

09/17/15 “Among Darknet surprises – news of privacy’s demise have been greatly exaggerated” – Link

09/08/15 “Avoiding ‘Magpie Syndrome’ In Cybersecurity” – Link

14/05/15 “IBM’s Chief Information Security Officer Kris Lovejoy to open SecTor 2015, the 9th annual Security Education Conference Toronto” – PDF

25/03/15 “Celebrating 10 years of providing a security community “ – Link

23/03/15 “TASK – Toronto Area Security Klatch Celebrates 10 Years” – PDF

Sector 2014 Press Room

 

11/05/14 “Careers in IT Security – experienced candidates only need apply” – Link

11/04/14 “Geopolitical security – it’s still all over the map!” – Link

11/04/14 “Researchers help vendors prevent The Internet of Fails” – Link

11/03/14 “The misapprehensions of penetration testing hinder security” – Link

10/30/14 “Security is Playing Catch up in the World of Cars” – Link

10/30/14 “Fragmentation in the midst of aggregation: the security landscape in ongoing transition” – Link

10/30/14 “From Cyber-Attacks to DevOps: Security Experts Cover Mix of Topics” – Link

10/29/14 “Internet of Things: Security vs. Time To Market” – Link

10/28/14 “SecTor 2014 – Security, starting with the people” – Link

10/27/14 “A former CSIS exec explains the ‘lone wolf’ effect on IT security” – Link

10/26/14 “Automate your very own Internet Rain Man” – Link

10/24/14 “Hacked: The escalating arms race against cybercrime “ – Link

10/27/14 “Why data breaches keep happening” – Link

10/24/14 “A black hat hacker that changed his colour” – Link

10/24/14 “Security pros forgetting the basics, complains expert” – Link

10/24/14 “SecTor Speaker Shows How Credit Card Thieves Get Caught” – Link

10/24/14 “Why security awareness testing can be a risky business” – Link

10/24/14 “How to break into containerized Android apps” – Link

10/24/14 ”
Carmakers ignore hacking risk, security expert says” – Link

10/24/14 “SecTor: Why DevOps Is the Key to Security” – Link

10/23/14 “Beware of gift iPads” – Link

10/23/14 “M2M will bring government regulation, predicts IT consultant” – Link

10/23/14 “Give up trying to stop attackers at the perimeter, says ex-CSIS official” – Link

10/22/14 “Join an Industry with a 100% Employment Rate” – Link

10/20/14 “SecTor 2014 Launches Exclusive Canadian CSO Summit, sponsored by KPMG” – PDF

10/14/14 “A Rare Chance to Hear a Car Hacking Expert” – Link

 

10/14/14 “Car Hacking Expert, Chris Valasek, Keynotes at the 8th Annual SecTor” – PDF

Sector 2013 Press Room

10/13/13 “SecTor2013 9 Highly Relevant Bits and Bytes” – Link

10/11/13 “How They Popped The Penguin: One Bash Tactic And What
It Means For Linux Data Security” – Link

10/11/13 “SecTor2013 – Highlight of Day 2, Crossing the Line, Oct 9th” – Link

10/10/13 “How much fun could an IT security conference be, anyway?” – Link

10/10/13 “Is the Breach Quadrilateral the Key to Understanding Security?” – Link

10/10/13 “Lock picking, hacking, and dongles on the Sector show floor”
– Link and Video

10/10/13 “SecTor 2013: Consultant scorns Apache Hadoop’s lack of security” – Link

10/10/13 “Internet of Things Could Bring On Attack of the Killer Toaster Botnet” – Link

10/10/13 “Building a spy phone is as easy as injecting malware into Android apps”
– Link

10/10/13 “SecTor 2013: Canadian CERT team about to officially launch” – Link

10/10/13 “ATMs Are Vulnerable to Attackers Looking to Steal Money: SecTor” – Link

10/10/13 “SecTor 2013 roundup: From limits on ethical hacking to three tips
for security pros “ – Link

10/10/13 “SecTor 2013: A call for DevOps for more secure software” – Link

10/09/13 “Three thoughts for IT security professionals, from SecTor’s G. Mark Hardy”
– Link

10/09/13 “Is Security a Game of Chess or Poker?” – Link

10/10/13 “SecTor 2013: Are there limits to ethical hacking?” – Link

10/09/13 “Microsoft turns corner on malware spike in Canada” – Link

10/09/13 “Malicious Remote Admin Tools Make Use of Old Vulnerabilities” – Link

10/08/13 “Canadians have ‘naive belief’ hackers won’t target them: Trustwave” – Link

10/08/13 “SecTor 2013: Highlights of Day 1, October 8th “ – Link

10/08/13 “Mainfram3 and SecTor release conference lead retrieval and
attendance tracking software.” – PDF

10/02/13 “The Interweb as a tool for control “ – Link

Sector 2012– 2012 Press Room

10/18/12 “Hadoop Forensics 101” – Link

10/16/12 “Gathering Threat Intelligence With Open Tools” – PDF

10/08/12 “US Mint Takes Control of Cloud Security Fate” – Link

10/04/12 “What Star Wars Teaches Us About BYOD and IT Security” – PDF

10/03/12 “Canada is winning the war against malware” – Link

10/03/12 “The Cloud Requires More Transparency” – PDF

10/03/12 “APTs Target Mac Users” – PDF

10/02/12 “This is SecTor 2012 – Canada’s Premiere Security Conference” – Link

10/02/12 “SecTor: Old Security Vulnerabilities Live On “ – PDF

08/07/12 “It Is All About the Content: SecTor Conference” – PDF

05/30/12 “Creating undetectable computer virus ‘surprisingly simple'” – PDF

04/03/12 “Can executives and hackers ever learn enough to work together?” – Link

03/27/12 “Why bad guys are better software builders “ – Link

Sector 2011– 2011 Press Room

 

21/22/11 “Clever patching keeps the system serviceable'”

11/03/11 “Google Chrome security bests other browsers in two ways: researchers” – PDF

10/27/11 “Canadian Infosec pro gives cubicle warfare tips” – Link

10/25/11 “There is no 911 to call for cyber crime” – Link

10/25/11 “Penetration Testing Shows Unlikely Vulnerabilities” – Link

10/22/11 “Forget new threats: It’s the old-school attacks that keep getting you” – PDF

10/21/11 “Which Browser is the Most Secure?” – Link

10/20/11 “Cyberattack forecast after spy virus found” – PDF

10/20/11 “Cloud providers rapped for hyping cloud security'” – PDF

10/19/11 “Cloud Security in Datacenter Terms “ – Link

10/18/11 “How Solid State Drives work for data recovery and forensics Part 2” – Link

10/18/11 “How Solid State Drives work for data recovery and forensics Part 1” – Link

10/18/11 “How Hackers Can Benefit IT Security” – Link

10/17/11 “Detecting Malicious Traffic in HTTP Headers” – Link

10/17/11 “SecTor conversation: on DLP for small businesses” – Link

10/17/11 “Social media tracking is no long for law enforcement only” – Link

10/14/11 “PC infection rates rising in Canada, Microsoft warns” – PDF

10/13/11 “Technology and humans – the good, the bad, and the unexpected” – Link

10/06/11 “Security Vendors: Trend-Setters, or Trend Followers?'” – PDF

10/03/11 “PayPal says mobile risks still far off” – PDF

9/29/11 “Google Wallet and NFC security: guarding against ‘sharks with lasers'” – PDF

9/26/11 “6 weird malware tricks hackers use to bypass security” – PDF

9/9/11 “Cybercrime affects minimum of two-thirds of all Canadians” – PDF

01/09/11 “Security in the Age of Social Media” – Link, Audio, Vide

03/02/11 “In The Middle” – PDF

Sector 2010– 2010 Press Room

11/19/10 “Selling security without playing the fear card” – PDF

11/04/10 “Four security start-ups, four paths to success” – PDF

11/02/10 “SecTor 2010: Frontrunner Training” – PDF

11/01/10 “Web threatdown: four new exploits you need to
defend against” – Video

11/01/10 “SecTor 2010 – Opening Video – Johnny Long” – Play

10/28/10 “Old school flaws still haunt mobile Web apps” – PDF

10/27/10 “Your locks are lame and easily picked: notes on
the first layer of your physical security “ – PDF

10/27/10 “Random wisdom from SecTor 2010” – PDF

10/27/10 “Canadians learn Defcon network security secrets”

10/27/10 “Q&A: Evercookie Creator Samy Kamkar” – PDF

10/27/10 “Stuxnet and SCADA systems: The ‘wow’ factor” – Play

10/27/10 “SecTor 2010: Touring (and surviving) the mobile
app minefield” – PDF

10/27/10 “The problem with privacy? Security” – PDF

10/27/10 “How I met your girlfriend” – Link

10/26/10 “Even Without Browser Flaws, Attackers Have
the Upper Hand on the Web” – PDF

10/25/10 “SecTor 2010: Researchers demonstrate malware
samples used in targeted attacks” – PDF

10/25/10 “Fuzzing proprietary protocols not that hard #sectorca”
– PDF

10/25/10 “SecTor 2010: Adventures in vulnerability hunting”
– Link

10/25/10 “SecTor 2010: Why security is the enemy of privacy”
– Link

10/25/10 “RAPID7’S HD MOORE and ANDRÉS RIANCHO
to present at SecTor 2010 Conference” – PDF

10/21/10 “Bell, McAfee offer cloud-based Internet Protect to
SMBs” – PDF

Sector 2009– 2009 Press Room

10/19/09 “Cloud security raises unanswered security questions” – PDF

10/19/09 “Experts question security of Canada’s e-passports” – PDF

10/09/08 “PayPal says mobile risks still far off” – PDF

10/09/09 “Canadian IT security survey uncovers paradoxes, ironies” – PDF

10/09/09 “How to pick locks and escape handcuffs” – PDF

10/07/09 ” Securing documents proves tricky” – PDF

10/07/09 “SSL Still Mostly Misunderstood “ – PDF

10/07/09 “The Reality Behind SQL Injection Attacks “ – PDF

10/07/09 “Malware Economy is Thriving” – PDF

10/07/09 “Canada Launching DNSSEC Test-Bed for Country’s
.CA Domain” – PDF

10/07/09 “How a Las Vegas casino was infected by malware” – PDF

10/07/09 ” Security needs to move beyond detection” – PDF

10/07/09 “Hackers Target Xbox Live“ – PDF

10/07/09 “DNSSEC Deployment Heads North” – PDF

10/06/09 ” A stormy road to cloud security” – PDF

10/06/09 “SecTor hands out first Canadian IT Security Awards” – PDF

10/06/09 “Canadian IT Security Award Winners” – PDF

10/05/09 “Media Advisory: CIRA to Launch DNSSEC Test-Bed
at Sector Conference” – PDF

09/15/09 “SecTor conference adds awards for year three” – PDF

09/15/09 “The seedy underbelly of online crime” – PDF

09/03/09 “Careers: Interviews Robert Beggs, International
Security Authority, Board Member Sector Advisory Council,
President DigitalDefence” – MP3

09/03/09 “Brian O’Higgins, Top International Security Executive
and Expert, Board Member Sector Advisory Council,
CTO Third Brigade” – MP3

09/03/09 “CIPS Connections: David Millier, Security Authority,
Board Member Sector Advisory Council” – MP3

09/03/09 “{You shape} it: Bruce Cowper, Top International Security
Authority, Chief Security Advisor Microsoft Canada” – MP3

09/01/09 “Exposing the black side of security” – PDF

08/31/09 “‘Freakshow’ Provides Inside Look At Real Malware
Behind Big Breaches” – PDF

07/28/09 “SecTor Announces Canadian IT Security Awards” – PDF

01/01/09 “Your biggest security risk is your own people” – JPG

Sector 2008– 2009 Press Room

04/11/08 “Three ways for security and compliance” – PDF

09/10/08 “No/Low/High-Tech Hacking: It All Matters” – PDF

09/10/08 “Canada’s PIPEDA act becoming more prominent” – PDF

10/10/08 “Think before you buy VAs” – PDF

09/10/08 “How security pros can do their job well and still be liked” – PDF

08/10/08 “Online players beware the video game police” – PDF

08/10/08 “XBOX Live Exec Leans on his Security Background” – PDF

08/10/08 “Security admins offer their risk management pitch” – PDF

08/10/08 “Avoiding the hassle of data compliance enforcement“ – PDF

08/10/08 “Metasploit 3.2 Offers More ‘Evil Deeds'” – PDF

07/10/08 “Coming soon: a Canadian cyber-security strategy” – PDF

07/10/08 “RCMP to collaborate with private sector on cyber
security” – PDF

07/10/08 “SecTor looks to build Canadian security community” – PDF

07/10/08 “Communications a missing aspect of security: panel” – PDF

06/10/08 “Man-in-the-middle attack tool automates hacks for
non-Web security experts” – PDF

02/10/08 “How to Root Out Bots in Your Network” – PDF

Sector 2007– 2007 Press Room

Dec 07 “SecTor makes a security splash in Toronto” – JPG

23/11/07 “The Bourne identity” – PDF

22/11/07 “Keep security simple, stupid” – PDF

22/11/07 ” IT security linked to better career prospects: Survey”
– PDF

22/11/07 “Keep security simple, stupid” – PDF

22/11/07 “The RCMP needs your help to get its cyber man” – PDF

22/11/07 “SecTor event highlights holes in DNS, databases” – PDF

22/11/07 “SecTor event highlights holes in DNS, databases” – PDF

21/11/07 “RCMP calls for security pros help on cybercrime” – PDF

21/11/07 “Canadian firms admit data protection challenges” – PDF

21/11/07 “RCMP calls for security pros help on cybercrime” – PDF

21/11/07 “How to avoid social engineering attacks”

21/11/07 “How to avoid social engineering attacks” – PDF

21/11/07 “Hacker unveils the basics at SecTor” – PDF

20/11/07 “Priorities, resources in security vary for IT pros” – PDF

20/11/07 “IT pros say security know-how crucial to successful
career” – PDF

20/11/07 “Should security pros get organized?” – PDF

16/11/07 “Attackers profiting from IT blinders” – PDF

14/11/07 “A helping hand in the battle against cyber crime” – PDF

09/11/07 “High Road Communications helps SecTor prepare to
host world-renowned IT security speakers” – PDF

26/10/07 “TASK kicks off Canadian IT security week” – PDF

26/10/07 “What Not to Do After a Security Breachs” – PDF

26/10/07 “ExploitMe: Free Firefox Plug-Ins Test Web Apps” – PDF

25/11/07 “Phoenix Partners With Rutkowska in Securing Hypervisor” – PDF

09/10/07 “Researchers Create New ‘Fingerprinting’ Method”

09/10/07 “SecTor conference spawns IT Security Week” – PDF

06/06/07 “Security at a standstill” – PDF

05/30/07 “Survey indicates Canadian businesses looking for more
security education” – PDF

05/24/07 “Survey highlights security skills gap” – PDF

05//24/07 “Canadian companies must ‘urgently address’
security skills gap” – PDF

05/23/07 PRESS RELEASE “New Survey Shows Canadian
Businesses Are Looking For More Security Education” – PDF

05/08/07 “Municipalities tap IT security community” – PDF

03/26/07 “The community should unite for security” – PDF

02/05/07 “Toronto firms plan Black Hat-style security
conference” – PDF