How Mycroft scaled to over 100 customers without a playbook
This article was featured in Betakit on February 19, 2026. CEO Mike Kim shares the battle scars earned building his cybersecurity startup. For Mycroft co-founder and CEO Mike Kim, building a cybersecurity startup in Canada often begins without much shared experience to lean on. There just aren’t enough battle scars in the cybersecurity ecosystem, especially in […]
Canada’s cybersecurity startups have no room for error
This article was featured in Betakit on January 30, 2026. Daly Brown and Nick Foubert built a company around their defence expertise, before finding the support to scale it. Daly Brown spent more than a decade in defence, building battlefield networks and aerospace systems designed to work when failure isn’t an option. Now he’s applying […]
Rachel Clark is taking on cybersecurity’s scalability problem
This article first appeared in Betakit on January 28, 2026. Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst’s Cyber Challenge is helping bring machine-speed security to mining…
Move Fast, Break Everything: The Risk Landscape of A.I.
David Whyte, the CTO of Tidal Point Software, joined us at the second annual Catalyst Summit, held this past November 12 in Brampton, where he walked workshop attendees through the evolving threat landscape that the advent of AI has brought to cybersecurity. This felt particularly relevant because, in the year since the first Summit in […]
Five Questions on CyberStart Canada, with Roxana Rozembaigher
What inspired you to focus on empowering youth in cybersecurity? For me, it’s all about the power of knowledge and its impact on the next generation. Cybersecurity is such a critical area that touches every part of our lives, yet so many young people aren’t aware of the threats or how to protect themselves. I’ve […]
Five Questions with Dan Adamson, Cyber Challenge Program Founder
Dan Adamson is the co-founder of AutoAlign, which is now in stage two of Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst’s Cyber Challenge go-to-market program. AutoAlign provides powerful generative safety and performance solutions for powerful AI models. Using highly contextualized Alignment Controls, their product – “Sidecar” – mitigates critical issues such as data hallucinations, biased content, jailbreaks, and other […]
From logic to cybersecurity: the philosophy of asking the right questions
Jordan Shaw-Young is Chief of Staff, Security Solutions at BlueVoyant. BlueVoyant is an analytics-driven cybersecurity company whose mission is to defend businesses around the world against agile and well-financed cyber attackers by providing unparalleled visibility, insight and responsiveness. At the Catalyst, Jordan is a Fellow, and his research and publications focus on cybersecurity economic decision […]
Stay ahead of cyber threats: top tips from the experts
During Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we checked in with Senior Cybersecurity Experts at the Catalyst, Lester Chng and Randy Purse, to find out what practices and actions you can take to stay cyber-safe. Read on to get the most out of their three main takeaways. What is Phishing/Vishing/Smishing? Often used in social engineering, these tactics utilize […]
ACE: from a social post to a changed reality
For Joseph Martinos, graduate of the Catalyst ACE program, cybersecurity isn’t just a career,it’s a lifelong passion. Driven by the belief that cybersecurity is crucial for protecting both systems and society, Joseph joined the Catalyst’s ACE training program with an insatiable appetite for learning and a desire to push his boundaries. After discovering the program […]
Doing the work: equality, education, and diversity in cybersecurity
Sem Ponnambalam is the President and Co-founder of Xahive, an organization with over 160 years of combined experience. She serves as a Board Member for MAPLE Business Council. She has been a Panelist at WEF, a G20 YES Panelist, and an Online Cybersecurity Governance Advisor for both private and public sectors and a Post-Secondary Cyber Governance […]