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March 23rd, 2011

IDS and ID theft conference

Virtual Guardian will be giving a conference via “Réseau Action TI LLL (Laval-Laurentides-Lanaudière)” this coming April 13th, 2011. The conference, given in french, will have two topics: intrusion detection and identity theft. The speaker will be Eric Gingras Ph.D., Virtual Guardian’s CTO. The portion on intrusion detection will have a technical flavour to it, while the ID theft part will be non-technical and accessible to all. For all details and to register for the conference, click here.

 

 

March 22nd, 2011

Virtual Guardians sponsors Primes

Hackus is once again upon us (Sherbrooke, April 1st and 2nd) and as it was the case in past years, Virtual Guardian will be present in their own way. This year, it will be by way of team sponsorship. Virtual Guardian has decided to give a financial sponsorship to the PRIMES, a team of IT security students from Rosemont College. The team is composed of Jean-Philippe Desbiens, Alexis Talbot, Samuel Harvey, Marc Francoeur,  Éric Thibault, Jean-Claude Olivier, Raphaël Jobin and Simon Foucher, all of which will try to bring home first prize in the competition. “We are happy to promote IT security to students. It’s encouraging to see tomorrow’s leaders being so proactive in our industry today. I would like to wish the PRIMES good luck in the competition!” said Marco Estrela, Vice-President of sales and mareting at Virtual Guardian.

March 16th, 2011

Montreal hacking competition

Finally a hacking competition in Montreal! During the “Rendez-vous de la sécurité de l’information” (RSI) tradeshow (March 28-29, 2011) students will be able to participate in SYN/HACK, an ethical hacking competition focusing on IT security. The event will be held on March 28th at the CMR convention Center. Teams are composed of 4 to 5 participants and registration will cost 100$ per team. For all the details and the registration form, please click here. Come and put your Fu to the test! See you there!

March 8th, 2011

VGSM in the news

Article in La Presse newspaper: “Gardien virtuel pour PME” (french article). Full article here.

February 23rd, 2011

Virtual Guardian on TV: The Clip

On this past February 18th, members of Virtual Guardian were interviewed for a report on “Hacktivism” on the TV5 show called Le Club Social. To watch the segment with Virual Guardian, click here (7,4Mb FLV file read by VLC reader). The entire episode is also accessible (streaming) for a limited time on TV5′s website (our segment is the first one aired).

February 11th, 2011

IT threat: Managing disgruntled employees

If you are wondering what the difference is between an external and internal pen test is or what the benefits of an internal test are, this excellent article might shed some light on those question for you.

« While it’s commonplace to fear hackers, we are now being told to worry more about internal security than external; that our own people are a greater threat than outsiders. The people on the inside aren’t more hostile, they just have more access. Realistically, the vast majority of employees from your organization are well-meaning, honest people. Your company is far more likely to be a victim of an “oops” than an attack by a determined and hostile insider. An insider could access private and/or sensitive information. How do you manage a situation where a trusted insider has gone rogue? » The rest of the article here.

If you have interested in having an internal security test done on your infrastructure, email info@virtualguardian.ca.

February 3rd, 2011

Virtual Guardian on TV

Virtual Guardian will be featured on a TV show called Club Social (the Social Club) which will air at 10PM on TV5 on February 18th.  The show will focus on ethical hacking and our very own Director of R&D, Eric Gingras, will be featured prominently in the segment.

January 31st, 2011

ISACA conference: ISO 27001 case study

Did you know that there are thousands of ISO 27001-certified companies throughout the world, but only a handful here in Canada? What is causing such a disparity? After all, most companies on the Quebec IT market use and adhere to the code’s best practices don’t they?

Is it a budgetary problem?

Is it procedural misunderstanding?

Get the answers to these questions and more next February 9th at a lunchtime conference hosted by ISACA and given by Virtual Guardian. To register, please click here. We hope to see you there! Please note that the conference will be given in french.

December 2nd, 2010

Article about our Security Monitoring solution

Maxime Johnson, journalist for Jobboom magazine has penned an excellent article about Virtual Guardian Security Monitoring.  You can read the article, in PDF format, by clicking here (french version only).

November 30th, 2010

New PDF: Canadian Strategy on Cyber Security

The Minister of Public Safety of Canada has recently unveiled its new National Cyber Security Strategy aiming to protect private, corporate and government IT infrastructures from all threats emanating from the internet.

You can read this new strategy by clicking here.

Concretely, this three-pronged strategy will seek to increase protection of the government’s IT systems, increase corporate business systems’ resiliency and the protection of its citizens when venturing online.

Virtual Guardian sees two very positive aspects coming out this announcement: the Minister has declared that spending in IT expertise will increase to help it defend against threats. Furthermore, we are happy to learn that Canada will finally have its own « CERT » in the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre (CCIRC). Definitely some steps in the right direction.

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