We’re pleased to announce that Redscan has been shortlisted as a finalist in two categories at the TEISS Awards 2020.

As efforts to modernize and digitize outdated and aging elections infrastructure take hold across the U.S., the demand for a revolutionized approach to cybersecurity has become an increasing imperative. Democratic nations rely on public trust in the integrity of their institutions and in a republic with the guiding principles of government “of the people, by the people and for the people.” There is perhaps a no more important system that that of free, fair, and secure elections.

The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) is the federal privacy legislation for private-sector organizations in Canada. PIPEDA became law in April 13, 2000 to promote trust and data privacy in ecommerce and has since expanded to include industries like banking, broadcasting and the health sector.

The Risk Management Framework (RMF) is most commonly associated with the NIST SP 800-37 guide for “Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems: A Security Life Cycle Approach,” which has been available for FISMA compliance since 2004. This was the result of a Joint Task Force Transformation Initiative Interagency Working Group; it’s something that every agency of the U.S. government must now abide by and integrate into their processes.

In cryptography, encryption is the process of encoding information or sensitive data so only authorized parties can access it. Encryption does not itself prevent interference and man-in-the-middle attacks, but denies intelligible content to the interceptor.

As we begin our new decade of the 2020s, we can look back at the last 30 odd years and examine the collaboration between technology and our daily lives. If you think of your day-to-day, it’s easy to see how much our society relies on technology. Consider our smart devices such as mobile phones, watches, even homes. However, what about the technology that we don’t see, that gives us clean drinking water, removes wastewater, and keeps our homes warm?

Although it may seem like IT security and cyber security can be used interchangeably, both terms refer to different things. In this article, we will take a closer look at what makes them different. You might have noticed that ‘cyber security’ and ‘IT security’ terms are often used as synonyms. Yet both terms refer to different things, and this slight difference in their meaning might lead to confusion. We aim to discuss how and why they differ in detail.