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Support Canada’s CCCS PBHVA overlay compliance with the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS

Naranjan Goklani — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:33:54 +0000

Organizations seeking to adhere to the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) Protected B High Value Assets (PBHVA) overlay requirements can use the Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA) on AWS solution with the CCCS Medium configuration to accelerate their compliance journey. To further support customers, AWS recently collaborated with Coalfire to assess and verify the LZA […]

Using OSCAL to express Canadian cybersecurity requirements as compliance-as-code

Michael Davie — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:00:23 +0000

The Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL) is a project led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that allows security professionals to express control-related information in machine-readable formats. Expressing compliance information in this way allows security practitioners to use automated tools to support data analysis, while making it easier to address downstream […]

AWS completes the CCCS PBHVA assessment with 149 services and features in scope

Naranjan Goklani — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:58:55 +0000

We continue to expand the scope of our assurance programs at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and are pleased to announce the successful completion of our first ever Protected B High Value Assets (PBHVA) assessment with 149 assessed services and features. Completion of this assessment effective October 4, 2024, makes AWS the first cloud service provider […]

Patrick Finn: why I joined Cloudflare as VP Sales for the Americas

Patrick S. Finn — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:00:44 +0000

Patrick S. Finn is joining Cloudflare as Vice President of Sales in the US, Canada, and Latin America

New AWS whitepaper: AWS User Guide for Federally Regulated Financial Institutions in Canada

Dan MacKay — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:48:09 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a new whitepaper to help financial services customers in Canada accelerate their use of the AWS Cloud. The new AWS User Guide for Federally Regulated Financial Institutions in Canada helps AWS customers navigate the regulatory expectations of the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) in a shared responsibility environment. […]

2023 Canadian Centre for Cyber Security Assessment Summary report available with 20 additional services

Naranjan Goklani — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:52:15 +0000

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are committed to providing continued assurance to our customers through assessments, certifications, and attestations that support the adoption of current and new AWS services and features. We are pleased to announce the availability of the 2023 Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) assessment summary report for AWS. With this assessment, a […]

AI literacy for teachers and students all over the world

Philip Colligan — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 10:10:02 +0000

I am delighted to announce that the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind are building a global network of educational organisations to bring AI literacy to teachers and students all over the world, starting with Canada, Kenya, and Romania. Experience AI We launched Experience AI in September 2022 to help teachers and students learn about…

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2022 Canadian Centre for Cyber Security Assessment Summary report available with 12 additional services

Naranjan Goklani — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 20:33:40 +0000

We are pleased to announce the availability of the 2022 Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) assessment summary report for Amazon Web Services (AWS). This assessment will bring the total to 132 AWS services and features assessed in the Canada (Central) AWS Region, including 12 additional AWS services. A copy of the summary assessment report is available for […]

New AWS whitepaper: Using AWS in the Context of Canada’s Controlled Goods Program (CGP)

Michael Davie — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 22:29:10 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a new whitepaper to help Canadian defense and security customers accelerate their use of the AWS Cloud. The new guide, Using AWS in the Context of Canada’s Controlled Goods Program (CGP), continues our efforts to help AWS customers navigate the regulatory expectations of the Government of Canada’s Controlled Goods […]

Cloudflare’s view of the Rogers Communications outage in Canada

João Tomé — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 17:28:12 +0000

An outage at one of the largest ISPs in Canada, Rogers Communications, started earlier today, July 8, 2022, and is ongoing (eight hours and counting), and is impacting businesses and consumers.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security Assessment Summary report now available in AWS Artifact

Rob Samuel — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 18:45:07 +0000

French version At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are committed to providing continued assurance to our customers through assessments, certifications, and attestations that support the adoption of AWS services. We are pleased to announce the availability of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) assessment summary report for AWS, which you can view and download […]

Disaster recovery compliance in the cloud, part 2: A structured approach

Dan MacKay — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:40:43 +0000

Compliance in the cloud is fraught with myths and misconceptions. This is particularly true when it comes to something as broad as disaster recovery (DR) compliance where the requirements are rarely prescriptive and often based on legacy risk-mitigation techniques that don’t account for the exceptional resilience of modern cloud-based architectures. For regulated entities subject to […]

Disaster recovery compliance in the cloud, part 1: Common misconceptions

Dan MacKay — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:39:37 +0000

Compliance in the cloud can seem challenging, especially for organizations in heavily regulated sectors such as financial services. Regulated financial institutions (FIs) must comply with laws and regulations (often in multiple jurisdictions), global security standards, their own corporate policies, and even contractual obligations with their customers and counterparties. These various compliance requirements may impose constraints […]