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Leadership
CH 8: Driving Change as Innovators
To remain competitive, organizations will increasingly have to innovate. As the speed of innovation increases, disrupting whole sectors, competitive intelligence, market intelligence even a bit of futurism will become essential skills. Leaders will have to stay informed not only of…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Growing Cyber-Kinetic Threats to Railway Systems
Cybersecuring railway systems from potential attackers must become paramount in the digitization that those systems currently undergo. Their cybersecurity is too closely interlinked with the railway safety to leave the door open to disruption. To make matters worse, they are…
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Leadership
CH 1: Introduction – The Future of Leadership in the Age of AI
It’s almost impossible to turn around nowadays without finding another article predicting the impact that AI and other emerging technologies – the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution – will have on our future. It’s one of the hottest topics being discussed…
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5G Security
5G Making It More Important for Governments to Lead IoT Security
The human brain is programmed to keep us safe and secure. Yes, we are separated from the rest of the animal kingdom by our advanced capacities of sense-making and decision-making, but at the core of our grey matter remains some…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Intentional Electromagnetic Interference (IEMI) IoT Threat
As IoT adoption continues to proliferate, manufactures and adopters are increasingly aware of cybersecurity risks to IoT. Yet, even among the IoT security professionals, one significant potential remote attack vector is often overlooked: intentional electromagnetic interference (IEMI). Electromagnetic interference (EMI)…
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Society 5.0
Innovation in Canada – What’s Not Working and What Is
Canada’s rankings in innovation has lagged that of other peer nations for decades despite government efforts to address this issue. Considering its success in developing research programs at its universities, its mediocre rankings overall in technology development is disappointing. Those…
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
The CRQC Quantum Capability Framework
This guide is a detailed, end‑to‑end map for understanding what it will actually take to reach a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC), i.e. break RSA-2048 - not just headline qubit counts. A CRQC must meet two conditions: the algorithmic requirements…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Canadian Critical Infrastructure Cyber Protection
Targeted cyberattacks against critical infrastructure (CI) are increasing on a global scale. Critical systems are rapidly being connected to the internet, affording attackers opportunities to target virtual systems that operate and monitor physical structures and physical processes through various modes…
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Society 5.0
The Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
If you’ve read the many predictions about the future of AI, you’ve likely found them to be wildly different. They range from AI spelling doom for humanity, to AI ushering in Golden Age of peace, harmony and culture, to AI…
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
The Challenge of IT and OT Asset Discovery
Every CISO understands the simple truth: you can’t protect what you don’t know you have. A comprehensive inventory of IT and OT assets - from servers and laptops to industrial controllers and IoT sensors - is the foundation of effective…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Stuxnet: The Father of Cyber-Kinetic Weapons
While Stuxnet is gone, the world now knows what can be accomplished through cyber-kinetic attacks. As we approach the 10th anniversary of when Stuxnet was (likely) deployed, it is worthwhile to examine the effect it still has on our world.…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Growing Cyber-Kinetic Vulnerabilities of Railway Systems
In their growing efforts to increase efficiencies through digitization and automation, railways are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyber-kinetic attacks as they move away from strictly mechanical systems and bespoke standalone systems to digital, open-platform, standardized equipment built using Commercial Off…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
IEMI – Threat of Intentional Electromagnetic Interference
As our cities, our transportation, our energy and manufacturing – our everything – increasingly embrace Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Controls Systems (ICS), securing its underlying cyber-physical systems (CPS) grows ever more crucial. Yet, even among engineers and cybersecurity…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
When Hackers Threaten your Life – Cyber-Kinetic Attacks Intro
The attacker stepped out from behind a hedge in the upper-class suburban neighborhood, being careful to stay in the shadows. Across the street, the last lights shining through the windows of the house had just flickered out. She tugged the…
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Leadership
Destructive Criticism – My experiences with negative feedback across cultures
Giving feedback is hard. Giving good feedback is even harder. Giving good feedback across cultures is next to impossible. I learned this the hard way on my first project in Canada. After years of working in very direct-feedback cultures, I…
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