VIEW: The Catalyst at Web Summit Vancouver 2025
At Web Summit Vancouver 2025, the Catalyst team joined tech professionals from around the world to showcase their innovative programs and services and explore the future of cybersecurity. Alongside...
Opinion | In a new era of cyber risk, Canada must lead the charge
This op-ed first ran in the Toronto Star on June 22, 2025. As global tensions rise and the trade war continues, countries are bracing for conflict amid growing cyberthreats,...
Why the UK’s Marks & Spencer cyber crisis should alarm Canadian businesses
This past April, British retail giant Marks & Spencer faced a major crisis — not by a supply chain shortage or a product recall but by a silent cyberattack....
Double-edged sword of AI adoption
Municipalities are under growing pressure to adopt new technologies, including AI, at an unprecedented pace. Factors such as rising expectations for digital services, ongoing talent shortages, and rapid technological...
Mastering the transition from technical contributor to manager
In conversation with Jaclyn Parent As our Cyber Management Essentials course attracts the first cohort of future Canadian cybersecurity leaders, who better to speak with than Jaclyn Parent? As...
Five Questions with Jasvinder (Jazz) Singh
Jazz Singh is the partner for Cyber Risk, Anti-Money Laundering & Fraud Management at Gravitas Consulting. He’s now serving as a sector expert in Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst’s Cyber Challenge...
WATCH: PowerSchool breach leaves student data exposed — Catalyst’s Charles Finlay weighs in
On Wednesday, May 7, the Toronto District School Board notified parents that their children’s personal information — stolen in the PowerSchool data breach last December — was never deleted,...
Celebrating small wins: Tracey Nyholt’s cybersecurity journey
Tracey Nyholt is the Founder of TechJutsu and a specialist in Identity & Access Management. She leads a team on a mission to solve the challenge of caller verification...
