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A Cybersecurity Overview of the Canadian Health Sector

This research report written by Louis Melançon for Serene-risc in August 2020, provides a cybersecurity overview of the Canadian health sector. It looks at the latest statistics concerning the cybersecurity practices of Canadian health businesses. This report also presents each of the five major cyber threats to healthcare and examines the recommended security safeguards and measures. Finally, it covers …

Avantages et inconvénients sociaux associés à la cyber agression-victimisation

La cyberagression est définie selon Schoffstall et Cohen (2011) comme étant un comportement commis avec une intention de nuire à un individu, et ce à l’aide d’un ordinateur, d’un téléphone portable ou tout autre appareil électronique. De plus, les auteurs ajoutent la nuance qu’il faut que le comportement soit perçu comme étant aversif par la …

Social advantages and disadvantages associated with cyber aggression-victimization

According to Schoffstall and Cohen (2011), cyber aggression is defined as behaviour committed with the intent to harm an individual, using a computer, cell phone or other electronic devices. In addition, the authors nuanced that the behaviour must be perceived as aversive by the victim. Cyber victimization is like cyber aggression but includes in its …

Blockchain-based Personal Health Records and Health Data Sharing: Are Patients Ready?

Presented by Victoria Lemieux et Chang Lu as a part of the 2020 Serene-risc Workshop on The State of Canadian Cybersecurity Conference: Human-Centric Cybersecurity. About the presentation Recently, researchers have suggested that Bblockchain technology may precipitate a paradigm shift in personal health records (PHR) by enabling patients to become co-contributor to the validation, maintenance and …

Is Persistence the key to offline contact: Identification of the online sex solicitors’ strategies

Presented by Vicky Desjardins as a part of the 2020 Serene-risc Workshop on The State of Canadian Cybersecurity Conference: Human-Centric Cybersecurity. About the presentation Research suggests two types of online sexual solicitors of minors, either those driven by sexual fantasies or by offline contact. Many of the studies on online sex solicitors were conducted using …

Améliorer les relations entre la criminologie et la cybersécurité

Considérant que les termes cybersécurité et cybercrime sont souvent utilisés dans le cyberespace, ne devraient-ils pas être reliés? La cybercriminalité représente l’ensemble des crimes « cyber ». Lorsqu’on y fait mention, on fait généralement référence au domaine d’étude des crimes traditionnels qui sont commis sur l’Internet, des crimes qui y sont créés et qui y prennent forme …

Enhancing relationships between criminology and cybersecurity

Considering that cybersecurity and cybercrime are often used in the cyber world, should they be related? Cybercrime represents the study of all “cyber” crimes. When mentioned, it is generally referring to the field of study of traditional offences committed on the Internet, crimes that have been created and which take shape strictly on the Internet …

National-level cybersecurity – architecture and results from a uniquely Canadian service

Presented by Mark Gaudet as a part of the 2020 Serene-risc Workshop on The State of Canadian Cybersecurity Conference: Human-Centric Cybersecurity. About the presentation Join Mark Gaudet, Cybersecurity Services Team Leader at CIRA as he walks through some of the Canadian threat landscape and the role of the DNS in delivering security, privacy and data …

The Impact of Cybercrime on Canadian Businesses in 2019

Presented by Howard Bilodeau as a part of the 2020 Serene-risc Workshop on The State of Canadian Cybersecurity Conference: Human-Centric Cybersecurity. About the presentation This presentation will examine recently-released statistics from the 2019 Canadian Survey of Cyber Security and Cybercrime (CSCSC). This survey, now in its second iteration, was designed to serve the following objectives: …