Security Insights
The Prairie Sentinel Security Blog
Threat intelligence, compliance guidance, and cybersecurity best practices — written by practitioners for Canadian organizations.
RaaS groups have lowered their minimum target size significantly in 2026. Canadian small and mid-market businesses — particularly in healthcare, legal, and accounting — are now the #1 growth segment for ransomware deployment. Here's a practical response framework.
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Many organizations pay for SOC services without fully understanding what their analysts do. This guide demystifies SOC operations, SLAs, and what "MTTD under 15 minutes" actually means for your business.
Mandatory breach reporting requirements under PIPEDA have teeth in 2026. We break down what constitutes a reportable breach, the 72-hour rule, and the penalties organizations are actually facing.
Threat actors are using LLMs to craft grammatically perfect, contextually aware phishing emails that bypass traditional filters. We've seen a 340% increase in successful delivery rates year-over-year.
After dozens of cloud security assessments, five misconfiguration types appear again and again. Fixing these five issues eliminates over 70% of the exploitable risk we find in most AWS environments.
Annual click-through training modules don't change behaviour. We analyze what the research says about effective security awareness, and describe the simulation-based approach that actually reduces click rates.
Most organizations don't have an IR plan. Of those that do, most haven't tested it in over a year. Here's a practical, Canadian-context IR plan template you can adapt and exercise this quarter.