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Article content The $144.9 million earmarked in the 2019 budget for cybersecurity of Canada’s critical infrastructure still hasn’t been put to use after two years, despite warnings that systems such as energy grids and telecom networks could be targeted by hostile actors. The 2019 budget outlined the money would be spent over five years “to protect Canada’s critical cyber systems including in the finance, telecommunications, energy and transport sectors.” The funding was dependent on new legislation to “introduce a new critical cyber systems framework,” which still hasn’t mate...

BlackBerry is having a busy week. On April 12, the enterprise software company announced it was chosen by Shared Services Canada (SSC), the federal agency overseeing government IT systems, to be its supplier of secure productivity and communication software. The multi-year agreement (no exact contract length was given) will provide public servants across the federal government access to BlackBerry Spark unified endpoint management (UEM) and BlackBerry SecuSuite, according to an April 12 news release. “BlackBerry and the Government of Canada have been trusted partners for over thirty years,�...

/PRNewswire/ -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced the Government of Canada has selected BlackBerry for their secure productivity and...

Article content Following multiple procurement disasters in the realm of information technology — think Phoenix Pay, the single email system and the modernization of data centres — the federal government’s main procurement czars have learned a thing or two. Above all, they have figured out that dividing very large, complex projects into smaller pieces — something known as agile procurement — substantially reduces the risk of catastrophic failure. The reason: this approach allows procurement officials to conduct multiple pilot projects before rolling out the main event. We apologize,...

Microsoft said more than 40 organizations around the world, including in Canada, were targeted using network-management software from Texas-based SolarWinds