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Security in Healthcare: Strengthening Your Defense Team With Analytics

January 15th, 2016

Today’s digital environment provides the opportunity to harbour, share and utilize endless streams of information, including healthcare. Healthcare organizations store incredibly private, and potentially valuable data that may reveal unique insights into both medical conditions and effective patient care. For instance, treatments are becoming more personalized than ever before, patients are monitored much more efficiently […]

Paul Lewis - Executive Consultant Security Services, IBM Canada

Paul has more than 25 years international experience in Information Technology, Privacy, Security, and Risk Management and an acknowledged expert in North American, Canadian, and European security and privacy practices. He is Executive Consultant for IBM Canada’s Security Services Practice and IBM North America Healthcare Security Leader. Paul has completed projects in many sectors with […]

Privacy & Security Issues We Are Facing in Today’s Digital World

January 6th, 2016

The largest issues related to privacy and security are so big and are cascading through the mind of society so rapidly that it is difficult to get our little individual minds around them. All we can do is sketch the monster emerging from the sea. The science fiction writer Vernor Vinge said at the NASA […]

Richard Thieme - Author and Futurist

Richard Thieme is an author and professional speaker focused on the challenges posed by new technologies and the future, how to redesign ourselves to meet these challenges, and creativity in response to radical change, including “identify shift.” His column, “Islands in the Clickstream,” was distributed to subscribers in sixty countries before collection as a book […]

Youth Series: Internet Safety as Educationally Mandatory

February 6th, 2015

Internet Safety as Educationally Mandatory I recently acquired my “New Driver” License in British Columbia. Getting this license required more work than I originally anticipated. I needed to read a book about driving, get lessons from my neighbour, have a practice test, and convince my adjudicator I was fit to be driving on the roads […]

Erinne Paisley - Student, Reynolds Secondary School

Erinne Paisley is currently a grade 11 student at Reynolds Secondary in Victoria B.C., where she is involved in Leadership, Vital Youth, Principal’s Advisory, Open for Change, Reynolds Eco-action, Outdoors Club, and the school’s Peer Mentor program. Erinne is also the founder of actionNow, a student-led group whose mandate is to focus on creating positive […]

Expert’s Corner: Privacy & Security Q&A with Faiz Abdulla

February 5th, 2015

Expert’s Corner with Faiz Abdulla: #PSV2015 In anticipation of the 16th Annual Privacy & Security Conference, Reboot is excited to present “Expert’s Corner”, a series of blog posts featuring outstanding privacy & security leaders and professionals who will be speaking at the conference in February. Read on for a glimpse of what the Privacy & […]

Faiz Abdulla - CEO, PaySavvy

Faiz Abdulla is the Co-founder and CEO of PaySavvy Inc. PaySavvy is a national human capital management provider that offers cloud-based payroll, human resource, and time and labour management software based in Vancouver, BC. It is one of only four payroll providers endorsed by the CRA. Faiz is passionate about changing the story around cloud-based […]

Bette-Jo Hughes: Avoid the Click-Wrap Trap

February 4th, 2015

Avoid the Click-Wrap Trap There is always talk about the potential and actual consequences of new, emerging technologies. In fact, it usually forms the basis of the discussion of these new technologies: – “can you believe how much cheaper/easier/faster things are going to be?”, or “don’t you think things will be more invasive/less secure/harder to […]

Bette-Jo Hughes - Associate Deputy Minister and Government Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Technology, Innovation and Citizens' Services, Province of British Columbia

Bette-Jo has been the Chief Information Officer for the Province of British Columbia since October 2012. The Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) plays a leadership role in promoting and guiding the management of government information as a strategic business asset, and supporting technology infrastructure as a key enabler of business transformation. Prior to […]

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