12 December 2018

• Project Prospects: The business management of IT projects
  Experience project manager Robin Hornby launches his blog series that will look at why IT projects are so prone to failure, and the project management approaches that might be able to fix that.
• Tech Sector Growth Map of Canada updated for 2018 – Focus on Toronto
  New venture capital investments data shows that the tech startup scene is heating up in Canada. See our map for all the top deals.
• Game-changing VMWare cloud stack coming to Canada in 2019
  Many tech pundits make cloud migration seem straightforward. They point to the statistics that paint a picture of a world where data and apps in the cloud are the norm – no longer a curiosity or a business differentiator. But the journey to cloud is in many cases not straightforward, and in many cases more…
• Privileged access management in the spotlight
  The first-ever Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management was just published by Gartner.1 What, exactly, is privileged access to us? In the mid-2000s networked computing ushered in a new era of business communications and operations. This led to the growth of online data storage and management, as well as the rise in...
• Microsoft offers incentives to migrate to cloud for SQL Server 2008 users as end-of-life date approaches
  If you're weighing your options as to what to do about the SQL Server 2008 end of life, Microsoft will let you bring your licence to the cloud.
• The Business Leadership Podcast: Andrew Witkin President StickerYou
  Andrew Witkin is an experienced entrepreneur, marketer and the founder and president of StickerYou, a successful e-commerce startup that was named the fastest-growing promotional products company in Canada in 2017 by SGR magazine. Over the past decade, Andrew has built StickerYou into an influential e-commerce trendsetter...
• Hashtag Trending – Meng Wanzhou’s elaborate bail plans, Google+ breach, Baby it’s cold outside
  Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou makes her case for bail in a Vancouver courtroom. (You have to hear these conditions). Google Plus will be killed sooner than expected. And baby, it’s cold outside, but music streaming services aren’t putting the ice on this Christmas classic.
• Congress report: Equifax breach ‘entirely preventable,’ blames ‘culture of cyber security complacency’
  A story of patching failure. failure to renew SSL certificates on an intrusion detection device and lack of network segmentation compounded by security and IT teams that didn't communicate well.
• All Hands on Tech – Amazon DeepRacer League encourages developers to train self-driving cars
  At Amazon Web Services re:Invent in Las Vegas this year, Amazon launched an autonomous model car racing league and hosted the first race.
• Cyber Security Today: Dec. 10, 2018 — Malicious attachments, support problems and it’s no toy
  Today's podcast  covers a new malware campaign that includes targeted attachments, a games publisher's customers get a surprise from its support centre and a reminder that kids' Internet connected devices have to be patched.