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Today, Trend Micro released its cybersecurity predictions for 2022 which predicts that organizations will be better prepared to handle cyber risks as they build out and implement proactive security strategies.

There was a 150-per-cent year-over-year ransomware surge in 2020. This is a huge concern, especially because 80 per cent of organizations globally now have a hybrid cloud strategy and 92 per cent have a multi-cloud strategy, according to a report from Trend Micro.

Recently in Canada ransomware attacks have plagued companies and organizations, with digital extortionists encrypting data, compromising communication, data security, and overall productivity. In today’s increasingly virtual world, these attacks are growing in both volume and ease, with inimical consequences that can impact almost any company or essential service, as seen recently in the attack on the Toronto Transit Commission. “Any technology that has an operating system is vulnerable”, said Greg Young, Vice President of Cybersecurity and Corporate Development at Trend Micro.

Trend Micro has served its Canadian customers who require data to be resident in Canada through its Deep Security, which is available on-prem as well as in the cloud, but Trend is now pursuing a cloud-first global strategy, and the Canadian data centre is part of that.

Government representatives of 30 nations including Canada have agreed to recognize ransomware as an escalating global security threat with serious economic and security consequences and have committed themselves to “urgent action.” On this matter, Canadian-based vice-president of cybersecurity at Trend Micro Greg Young, commented that the private sector is doing all it can to shield against ransomware, but governments need to move to stop the attack groups who create and use it.

Global cybersecurity firm Trend Micro announced the launch of its Cloud One regional datacentre in Canada to help its Canadian clients uphold data residency, safeguard data privacy and reduce the risk of a security breach. 

Most IT teams believe that working from home has become a “ticking time bomb” that might lead to a corporate network breach, according to a recent survey from HP Inc. This finding was in line with a survey from global cybersecurity company Trend Micro that found 84% of North American companies polled expect a data breach of customer records within the next 12 months compared to 74% last year. 

Carleton University is partnering with some of Ottawa’s leading tech firms on a new initiative aimed at closing the gender gap in fields such as science, technology, engineering and math. Trend Micro is one of them and  Adam Boyle, vice-president of hybrid cloud security is quoted.

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global cybersecurity leader, and Carleton University have partnered to support more women pursuing careers in STEM through the Women in Engineering and Information Technology (WiE&IT) Program, launching this September. As one of the first sponsored programs of its kind in Canada, it aims to close the gender gap in STEM careers by providing women undergraduate and graduate-level students access to tools, knowledge, and resources for a successful transition into the workforce.  

Trend Micro released results from a new study that reveals SOC and IT security teams are suffering from high levels of stress outside of the working day, with alert overload a prime culprit.