Cynomi: Actionable Roadmaps
Free Course at Smith Investigation Agency Inc
As the owner of The Smith Investigation Agency Inc., I’ve seen firsthand how critical cybersecurity awareness has become for both businesses and individuals. To address this growing need, we launched a free course this year through our national training platform, Training Centre Canada, called “Cybersecurity Fundamentals: Defending the Digital Frontier.”
We created this course with one purpose in mind: accessibility. Too often, cybersecurity training is out of reach for smaller companies or individual employees because of cost barriers. By offering it free of charge, we’re ensuring that more people—whether they’re business leaders, employees, or students—have the opportunity to understand the fundamentals of protecting themselves and their organizations.
The course covers essential topics like recognizing common cyber threats, building strong password practices, identifying phishing attempts, and understanding the importance of safe browsing habits. We’ve designed it with real-world examples so learners can see how these threats show up in everyday life and in the workplace.
Beyond our own initiative, I believe companies should make cybersecurity training a regular part of onboarding and ongoing professional development. It should be as routine as health and safety training—something every employee is equipped with from day one. Regular refreshers, simulated phishing exercises, and a culture that encourages reporting suspicious activity without fear of blame are all steps that go a long way in strengthening awareness and resilience against cyber threats.
Agile Extended’s VR Cybersecurity Experience
Our VR cybersecurity experience puts employees inside a live attack. In 10 minutes, they feel the stress of watching company data breached from a single click. The group debrief that follows cements lasting change because people remember what they felt, not just what they were told.
Leila Rao, Coach, Agile Extended
Netwrix Unifies Visibility and Control Across Data and Identities
Start with visibility,” said Jeff Warren, chief product officer at Netwrix. “You can’t protect what you can’t see. Businesses need unified visibility and control across their data and identities to detect risks early and respond faster. Our goal is to make that process easier through flexible, cost-effective solutions that strengthen security and maximize ROI.
Jeff Warren, CPO, Netwrix
Integrate Inoreader into Security Operations
One cybersecurity tool that’s transformed our approach is Inoreader. For most businesses, staying current with emerging threats can quickly become overwhelming, as numerous online resources claim authoritative status. The real challenge lies in cutting through the noise to identify which threats actually matter to your specific environment.
We’ve successfully integrated Inoreader into our security operations to aggregate, search and rapidly respond to relevant information. By configuring it to automatically collect updates from validated sources—including national CERTs, key vendors, regulators, and trusted technical experts—we’ve created a reliable information ecosystem that works for us.
What makes Inoreader particularly valuable is its robust filtering system. Using Boolean queries, we automatically surface updates specific to our technology stack. These alerts integrate directly with our JIRA Service Management system, allowing our teams to assess and act on threats immediately without wasting hours searching through disparate sources.
This approach has delivered real results. Recently, we identified a vulnerability in a technology supporting a customer’s primary product that cybercriminals were actively exploiting. The timely alert enabled us to notify our client promptly, helping them prioritise remediation efforts, reduce exposure and protect their customer base.
Inoreader has become central to our threat intelligence workflow, and I recommend it to anyone looking to make their cybersecurity monitoring more efficient, focused and responsive.
Elsie Day, Cyber Security Consultant, CyPro
Faraday Gear for Remote and Hybrid Workers at SLNT
One of the smartest tools a business can use to protect both its people and its data is SLNT® Faraday gear. These are simple, everyday products—like phone sleeves, laptop sleeves, and backpacks—that completely block wireless signals (cellular, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, RFID, NFC).
Why does that matter for businesses? Because today’s workforce is mobile. Phones, laptops, and tablets leave the office every day, often carrying sensitive data. That means every device is a potential target for hacking, tracking, or data theft. By handing out SLNT gear, businesses give employees a physical layer of cybersecurity that works anywhere—airports, hotels, coffee shops, client sites.
It’s not just about IT security. It’s about peace of mind, compliance, and protecting company IP. Whether you’re outfitting executives, traveling teams, or remote workers, SLNT makes it easy to add enterprise-grade privacy and security into everyday carry.
Avie Zar, Marketing Manager, SLNT
Keep Applications Patched and Up-to-date With Cloudpaging
First and foremost, enterprises have to keep their applications patched and up-to-date. In today’s world, there’s no easy way to keep up with the frequency and volume of updates unless you leverage application containers. InfoSec teams can rest-assured that end-user applications in our Cloudpaging containers can be patch quickly and securely, thanks to end-to-end encryption, granular isolation capabilities, per-user virtualization, and our paging technology. Combined with Cloudpager’s AI Packaging and dynamic provisioning capabilities, all your applications and updates can be rapidly deployed to any physical or virtual Windows desktop, regardless of where employees reside.
Doug Pfiffner, CTO of Numecent
Mitigate Domain Attacks With DPML
Cybersecurity Awareness Month serves as a timely reminder that as the internet evolves, so do our defenses, and we have the ability to adapt and strengthen them. Domain registries play an important role in keeping the digital ecosystem safe, though their impact is often underestimated. This year, 76% of security leaders reported they are only “somewhat confident” in mitigating domain attacks. By investing in preventative technologies early, businesses can create a secure foundation for their brands online. One of the most effective strategies is stopping harmful domains before they’re ever registered. Services like the Domains Protected Mark List (DPML), combined with trusted notifier partnerships, empower organizations to act quickly and decisively, preventing cybersquatters from claiming brand-matching domains. This kind of proactive shield makes brand protection both simpler and more powerful. Ultimately, domains are more than web addresses. They’re the cornerstone to secure, trusted online experiences. By working with reliable registries and taking advantage of preventative tools, organizations can build confidence, protect their reputation, and help create a safer, more connected internet for everyone.
Ram Mohan, Chief Strategy Officer, Identity Digital
Put Identity at The Center With Ping Identity
With only 23% of consumers feeling very confident in their ability to determine whether something is legitimate or a scam, and 39% citing AI-driven phishing as the modern scam that concerns them most, it’s clear that people feel increasingly vulnerable online. The rise of AI-powered scams makes it harder than ever for the average person to distinguish fact from fiction, creating a dangerous gap in trust that bad actors are eager to exploit.
To counter this, organizations must move beyond traditional defenses and leverage the powerful combination of biometric authentication and verifiable credentials. These technologies give people the tools to quickly and securely prove who they are, while ensuring businesses can validate trust at every interaction. By putting identity at the center of our digital lives, we can dramatically reduce the success of scams and take meaningful steps toward creating a more secure digital world.
Darryl Jones, Vice President of Consumer Segment Strategy, Ping Identity
Find the right security solution with an MSP like ManagePoint
As a security first MSP and outsoursed IT partner our entire role is to help guide and support our clients in making sure that not only is there business operating in a smooth and uninterrupted fashion, but arguably more importantly it helping them maximize budget for securing their business.
Things like a password manager, knowledge-based training, SPAM filters, Advanced antivirus systems (XDR/EDR), redundant server systems, air gapped backups, and I could go on.
Our philosophy is that backups of your data are the most important thing to have in place and we use many tools to accomplish this for our clients. Ranging from a simple cloud-based solution for a small company. To a hardware and data center based solution for our multinational clients.
Joe Gagnon, Account Executive, Manage Point
Using Phenom to Screen New Hires
Cybercriminals are particularly drawn to remote IT roles. Job seekers who are not what they seem to be can hurt an organization’s ability to scale and grow into new markets and hire top talent. The net effect of that can be devastating. Companies could literally go out of business.
This impacts legitimate job seekers too because the fraudsters are taking opportunities away from people who are truly looking for meaningful work to feed and take care of themselves and their family and be a productive part of their community.
There are tools on the market that analyze candidate responses in real-time during video interviews. The AI agent ensures the same individual appears for video screenings, phone interviews and final interviews, preventing imposter candidates from infiltrating the hiring process.
Cliff Jurkiewicz, VP, Global Strategy, GM CAB & Evangelist , Phenom
Stellar Cyber Agentic AI Supports Security Teams
Analyst workloads are spiking, alert fatigue is a real concern, and hiring top-tier cybersecurity talent is both costly and time-consuming. This is where Agentic AI changes the equation. Think of AI agents in cybersecurity as personal assistants, helping analysts to find the most urgent threats that would otherwise slip through the cracks and cause real damage to a business’s network and applications. Agentic AI behaves like an intelligent digital assistant. It analyzes behavior across your entire telemetry stack, correlates signals in real-time, and presents actionable narratives to the analyst. The result? Security teams can process more cases per shift, prioritize the right alerts, and significantly reduce the time wasted on investigating and chasing false positives. This is what businesses should be striving for when implementing AI: the human and the AI agent working together.
Subo Guha, Senior Vice President of Product Management, Stellar Cyber
MFT at OPSWAT
As the 22nd annual Cybersecurity Awareness Month urges us to “Secure Our World,” the speed at which data moves is as important as the integrity with which it is managed. File transfers remain one of the most common—and most vulnerable—points of exposure. In the AI era, where adversaries weaponize automation to embed malicious content or bypass traditional defenses, organizations cannot afford to treat this as routine infrastructure.
Managed File Transfer (MFT) should be seen not as legacy technology but as a strategic control. Its value lies in verifiable security: encryption, access policies, and auditable trails that demonstrate accountability. These capabilities are increasingly non-negotiable, as regulators from the SEC to the EU’s DORA demand provable safeguards.
Jeremy Fong, VP of Product at OPSWAT
Applaudo App Security
Applaudo implemented a zero-trust security architecture with real-time threat detection that blocked 100% of global attacks targeting healthcare patient data, preventing potential HIPAA violations and service disruptions.
Healthcare applications face sophisticated attack vectors that bypass traditional perimeter defenses. Applaudo’s case study demonstrates how multi-cloud security certification and standardized development protocols create comprehensive protection.
Scott Kenyon, CRO and co-founder, Applaudo
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