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Compliance PHIPA, the Canadian Healthcare Compliance Regulation is More Than Just a HIPAA Clone North America has two strong healthcare compliance regulations, HIPAA (USA) and PHIPA (Canada). While the two are very similar, it’s important for Canadian healthcare companies to understand the differences - and what they are responsible for when choosing a provider that will help them communicate, collaborate, and share patient

Evan Blair • 3 min read

Cryptography & Cybersecurity The Challenge of Making Regulated Data Both Available and Secure When it comes to collaboration, the more available your data is to your employees, the less secure it is. Many organisations struggle to strike a balance between ensuring that employees have instant access to the data they need to do their jobs while shielding sensitive data from unauthorised users. With

Evan Blair • 4 min read

Compliance ITAR & EAR: Think You Are Compliant? Think Again... Anyone doing business with the US government and / or producing technology or physical goods that the US considers controlled needs to spend 5 minutes here and get a refresher on ITAR and EAR. The biggest thing that scares me when I think about how folks are handling their sensitive communications

Evan Blair • 4 min read

Cryptography & Cybersecurity Did You Know that 17% of Your Workforce Has Access to 100% of Your data? The biggest risk to modern organisations isn’t always a fraudster or cyber criminal halfway across the world; in many cases, it’s an employee. Research shows that between 2018 and 2020, there was a 47% increase in the frequency of incidents involving insider threats, and 66% of organisations consider

Evan Blair • 4 min read

Compliance Facebook's whistleblower and what it means for your data security & GDPR program With the recent testimony in Congress on October 5 by former Facebook employee and now whistleblower, Frances Haugen, has drawn the curtain back on management’s priorities at the company, and it isn’t good. Basically, she claims profits are the top priority among Facebook’s leaders. As a result

Evan Blair • 3 min read

Compliance GDPR & Collaboration: Are You Really Compliant using Slack, Box, Teams, etc...? Before we can answer that question, we need to better understand GDPR (there are a lot of false narratives out there) and what your responsibilities are, and what your providers responsibilities are. Once we understand those, we can look at some specific articles of the GDPR that will highlight (and

Evan Blair • 7 min read

Compliance What you need to know about HIPAA; email, collaboration, messaging, and data sharing The need for improved HIPAA compliant technologies is becoming more apparent. The number of data breaches in the healthcare industry has increased steadily for the past four years. From 2015 to 2018 alone, healthcare breaches increased by more than 26%. And while cyber attacks are growing across all sectors, the

Cecilia Clark • 7 min read

Cryptography & Cybersecurity [3 Minute Video] HighSide CSO dishes on “Dark Halo”, The First Global Microsoft 365 Breach Listen to HighSide CSO Aaron Turner give a 3 minute “deep-dive” on the Dark Halo attack, detailing how adversaries exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft Teams to gain access to sensitive, proprietary and regulated data.

Evan Blair • 1 min read

Cryptography & Cybersecurity Why can’t I use SFTP for secure file transfer? With most businesses still adapting to the new normal of remote and decentralized work, we wanted to take a quick look at two of the tools / techniques some businesses have dusted the cobwebs off of to share data with their employees and partners around the world – FTP, SFTP, and FTPS.

Evan Blair • 4 min read

Compliance Understanding & Meeting UK MOD’s DEFCON 658 Regulatory Framework Like CMMC in the United States, The UK Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) DEFCON 658 is a cybersecurity regulatory framework that applies to any organisation doing business with the MOD. The goal of DEFCON 658 is to protect MOD Identifiable Information (MODII) across the whole of the defence supply chain

Evan Blair • 2 min read