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ISO/IEC 27701:2025: privacy certification no longer needs ISO 27001
The 2025 edition of ISO/IEC 27701 is a standalone privacy management system standard. Who benefits, how it maps to Quebec's Law 25, and what organizations certified to the…
Read the insight →The EU Cyber Resilience Act: what Canadian exporters must report since 2026-09-11
Selling connected hardware or software into the EU? The Cyber Resilience Act's 24-hour vulnerability reporting duty applies since 2026-09-11, and the main obligations follow on 2027-12-11. Scope, deadlines,…
Read the insight →Post-quantum cryptography: why your first step is a cryptographic inventory
NIST's post-quantum standards are final and Canada has a federal migration roadmap to 2035. Why the first step is a cryptographic inventory, and how PCI DSS requirements 4.2.1.1…
Read the insight →AI in the payment environment: what the PCI SSC’s new AI guidance means for your scope
The PCI SSC published Security Considerations for AI Systems on 2026-09-15. AI is scoped like any other technology. Where chatbots, agents and shadow AI pull systems into PCI…
Read the insight →ISO/IEC 42001: how to show clients your AI is governed
AI governance questions are landing in security questionnaires. What ISO/IEC 42001 certifies, how it builds on ISO 27001, why accredited certification matters in Canada, and a practical first…
Read the insight →Phishing and ransomware: the PCI DSS 4.x controls that actually help
Ransomware is the top cybercrime threat to Canadian critical infrastructure and phishing remains a leading way in. Five PCI DSS 4.x requirements that reduce the risk for any…
Read the insight →You can’t lose what you don’t keep: reducing PCI scope by not storing card data
The most effective PCI DSS control is often the data you never hold. How hosted payment pages, tokenization and segmentation shrink your cardholder data environment, and the traps…
Read the insight →Most breaches still start with a known weakness: scanning and patching under PCI DSS 4.0.1
Vulnerability exploitation is now the leading way into a breach. Here is how PCI DSS 4.0.1 links risk ranking (6.3.1), patch deadlines (6.3.3) and internal and external scanning…
Read the insight →How a penetration test runs: from scoping to retest
What actually happens during a penetration test, step by step: scoping and authorization, reconnaissance, exploitation, reporting and the retest that PCI DSS requirement 11.4.4 expects.
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