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Protecting Client Trust: Cybersecurity and PIPA Compliance Essentials for Alberta Financial Firms

What Does PIPA Compliance Require for Alberta Financial Firms? Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act requires financial firms to protect client personal information with safeguards reasonable for how sensitive it is — which, for financial data, means strong, demonstrable security. In practice that means controlling who can access client data, encrypting it in transit and at […]

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IT/OT Cybersecurity Challenges in Alberta’s Energy Sector: A Guide for IT Leads

What Are the Main IT/OT Cybersecurity Challenges in Energy? The core IT/OT cybersecurity challenge in Alberta’s energy sector is that converging IT and OT environments exposes physical operations — and safety — to network-based threats they were never designed to withstand. Operational Technology (the control systems running field equipment) was built for availability and uptime,

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Solving the Job Site Connectivity Puzzle for Alberta Construction Companies

How Do You Get Reliable Internet on a Construction Job Site? To get reliable internet on a construction job site, combine the right access technologies for the location and layer in redundancy: business-grade cellular or fixed wireless (FWA) as the primary link, satellite for remote sites with no coverage, and a failover connection so work

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