Practical cybersecurity insights for Canadian small and mid-sized businesses.
This Month’s Focus: Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Most businesses have backups. Far fewer have a plan for what happens after a disruption.
Whether it's a cyber attack, power outage, hardware failure, or human error, the real challenge isn't restoring data, it's maintaining operations while recovery takes place.
For Canadian SMBs, even a single day of downtime can affect revenue, customer confidence, productivity, and reputation. Yet many organizations have never tested their recovery procedures or documented how critical functions would continue during an extended outage.
This month, we're looking at Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR): the planning, processes, and technologies that help businesses stay operational when things don't go according to plan. Because resilience isn't measured by whether an incident occurs. It's measured by how well you respond when it does.
From the Contego Blog: How to Recover from a Cyber Attack
Here’s a hard truth that every Ontario SMB IT leader knows deep down: It’s not a matter of if an attack happens, it’s a matter of how fast you recover.
Attackers don’t need hours to break into your systems anymore. They need minutes. So why are so many SMBs still taking days or even weeks to recover after an incident?
Because they’re relying on outdated tools, slow backups, and manual response processes that simply can’t keep up with modern cyber threats.
If you want your business to survive a cyber attack without catastrophic damage, you need systems designed for rapid containment, rapid restoration, and rapid decision-making.
Mount Royal University Responding to Cyber Attack, Website Down
Mount Royal University says it's investigating a cyberattack that disrupted its systems on Wednesday.
"When the issue was identified, the university took prompt steps to contain the threat and protect its systems," the university wrote in a post on a separate page from its main website, which was still down as of 12 p.m. Friday.
"We have retained external cyber security experts to assist with the response and investigation, and we are following our established incident response protocols."
Ford Government Scolded Agency Over Cyber Attack. Docs Show it Knew a Month Earlier.
Senior staff in the Minister of Health’s office were notified about a cyber attack at a government home care agency more than a month before the public was told, despite publicly scolding the organization for not moving faster.
Last June, an Ontario Liberal MPP raised the alarm about a cyber attack suffered by one of Ontario Health atHome’s key vendors months earlier, prompting the government to direct the arms-length organization to take action.
“Our government expects all service providers to uphold the highest standards of patient care, security and confidence,” the Ministry of Health wrote in a statement three months after Ontario Medical Supply suffered a ransomware attack.
