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New platform will help fill Albertaโ€™s skills gaps

By Meagan Hampel / Feb 26, 2024

A web platform that helps Albertans match their skills and experience with the most sought-after jobs โ€” as well as find opportunities to learn in-demand skills โ€” is now available for a limited-time public preview. SkillUp provides an incredibly detailed (and user-friendly) Alberta labour market overview and education referral tool.  Built by […]

ShareIT hits new group spend/saving milestone as it opens up to municipalities

By Admin / Dec 12, 2023

Albertaโ€™s ShareIT public procurement program has hit a major new milestone in its group spend and savings. Since it was launched in 2017 by Cybera โ€” in collaboration with Albertaโ€™s post-secondary institutions โ€” the program has marked over $100 million in cumulative member spending on IT hardware, licenses, and other […]

eduroam comes to the Calgary Airport

By Admin / Oct 31, 2023

The Calgary Airport Authority has announced its launch of eduroam, the secure, global Wi-Fi roaming service for students and researchers. Post-secondary students, researchers, and faculty passing through the Calgary International Airport (YYC) now have access to the trusted and secure internet service. This represents the first airport in Alberta (and […]

Data science interns take a โ€œtripโ€ to Vertical City

By Zach Morrison / Oct 24, 2023

With exaggerated hand gestures, data science intern Aldebaran Saldaรฑa comedically ushers me in and out of a life-size โ€œelevator simulatorโ€ โ€” a small, curtained-off rectangle with a monitor mounted in the top right corner. “I feel like a border security officer,โ€ he says. โ€œPassports, please!” Rishabh Shukla, another intern, shares […]

The trials, tribulations, and triumphs of a k-12 school network analyst

By Zach Morrison / Oct 10, 2023

Chris Sluggett leads the talented and highly commended Technology Services team at Wolf Creek Public Schools, a school district covering rural communities north of Red Deer. The breadth of responsibility for his team โ€” from enabling online learning, to protecting student privacy, to keeping the lights on โ€” can be […]

Step five of building cybersecurity: Implementing the CIA triad to combat risks

By Brad White / Sep 27, 2023

Part 7 of Cybera’s Introduction to Cybersecurity series Confidentiality, integrity and availability โ€” also known as the CIA or AIC triad โ€” is a model designed to guide policies and actions to build information security within an organization. Confidentiality The National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) defines confidentiality as:ย  […]

Step Four of building cybersecurity: Identifying your risks

By Brad White / Sep 20, 2023

Part 6 of Cybera’s Introduction to Cybersecurity series What are some of the top cybersecurity challenges? Cybersecurity is continually challenged by hackers, data loss, privacy demands, and increased surface attack risks, coupled with the need to constantly evolve security strategies. These strategies must address these external threats, as well as […]

Step three of building cybersecurity: Threats vs Attacks

By Brad White / Sep 13, 2023

Part 5 of Cybera’s Introduction to Cybersecurity series In our previous post, we defined โ€œattacksโ€ and โ€œthreatsโ€, and provided a comprehensive list of the different threats modern organizations typically face. In this post, weโ€™ll focus on attacks. What is an attack? While threats are not always intentional (e.g. natural disasters), […]

Step two of building cybersecurity: What threats do you face?

By Brad White / Sep 6, 2023

Part 4 of Cybera’s Introduction to Cybersecurity series Once you have developed a full inventory of your operational environment (as outlined in our previous post), the next step is to try and uncover the intentional and unintentional dangers they face. From a security standpoint, threats and attacks are two separate […]

Step one of building cybersecurity: What do you Know?

By Brad White / Aug 30, 2023

Part 3 of Cybera’s Introduction to Cybersecurity series In our previous blog post, we talked about the importance of cybersecurity in the modern world, and the different kinds of โ€œthreatsโ€ and โ€œattacksโ€ institutions commonly face. Today, weโ€™ll review how best to understand your operational environment in order to determine your […]

What is cybersecurity?

By Brad White / Aug 23, 2023

Cybersecurityโ€ฆhow to eat an elephant one bite at a time Part 2 of Cybera’s Introduction to Cybersecurity series Cyberattacks are on the rise. According to the annual ITRC (Identity Theft Resource Center) Data Breach Report, there was a 68% increase in reported U.S. data compromises from 2020 -2021. Moreover, breaches […]

Cyberaโ€™s Introduction to Cybersecurity Series

By Brad White / Aug 23, 2023

Part 1 – Introduction For cybersecurity to be effective within any organization, it needs to be addressed as a continual lifecycle. Every day, new attacks are developed, so existing methods to repel them must be refined and improved. Why is cybersecurity important? Cybersecurity matters to everyone, from governments and large […]