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About Wedge Chief Scientist

Husam Kinawi, Chief Scientist Dr. Kinawi has a PhD and MSc in Computer Science from the Universities of Calgary, Canada and London, UK. In 1997, he co-founded Mpower Technologies Inc., a wireless telecommunications software company. In 1999, Dr. Kinawi co-founded ActiveIq.com (NASDAQ: AIQT), a Boston-based e-Business applications firm. Dr. Kinawi has over seventeen years of research and development experience working with industry leaders such as Newbridge (Alcatel), Siemens, United Technologies, and Apple in the areas of distributed information systems, embedded applications and wireless Internet solutions. Dr. Kinawi has also spoken at several major conferences, published several research papers, and is the holder of several patents in the area of mobile and wireless devices.

The Accellion Breach Highlights the Need for Real-time Threat Prevention

The latest exploit to come down the pipe – the Accellion Breach; has the premise to be just as bad as Solar Winds.  Similar to the Solar Winds hack, where it was a supply-chain exploit that utilized a trusted update … Continue reading

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VPN Security, or Lack Thereof, Is Causing Security Liabilities: How WedgeARP™ Can Help with Real-time Threat Prevention

Techradar published a piece recently on how VPN security is causing businesses a lot of headaches; mainly because there is often a lack of security when using legacy VPN services.  In a survey, highlighted by the article, although businesses around the … Continue reading

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Microsoft Aiming to Battle Big Crisis Going on in Cybersecurity Right Now: Wedge Has Been Fighting This Battle For a While…

Yahoo!Finance recently brought to light the fact that Microsoft has now become one of the big players in cybersecurity. After seeing a 40% year-on-year jump in its growing security business (which totalled $10 billion over the past 12 months), it now … Continue reading

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The Global Pandemic is Causing Cyber-Security Teams to Burnout: Why Automated Real-time Threat Prevention Can Help

ZDNet published an eye-opening –  but at the same time very understandable – article that outlined why the Coronavirus pandemic is seeing cybersecurity teams struggling with burnout as time goes on.  With the second wave hitting many countries, and further lockdowns … Continue reading

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The SolarWinds Aftermath: Detection and Response is Not A Viable Solution – The Benefits of Real-time Threat Prevention

The SolarWinds compromise has unleashed a flurry of activity in the cybersecurity industry as of late.  Almost all of the activities are related to trying to remediate against the hack that has left untold numbers of organizations vulnerable; and trying … Continue reading

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Security Bulletin: SolarWinds Supply Chain Compromise Affects Various U.S. Government Agencies – What You Need to Know

Earlier this week, both the Canadian Government and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is a part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, issued an emergency directive calling on all federal civilian agencies to review their computer networks for signs … Continue reading

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New CSE Report Provides Warning That Critical Infrastructure Networks in Canada are At High Risk of Attack: What You Need To Do Now (LONG READ)

A recent report from the CBC covering a new intelligence assessment from the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) has highlighted the very real threat against Canada’s critical infrastructure, such as the electricity supply.  The CSE has intimated that state-sponsored actors are sharpening their cyber capabilities to … Continue reading

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Companies in Belgium Paying EUR100MM Per Year As A Result of Ransomware (Growing 29%!) : Wedge Absolute Real-time Protection Can Help Stop This!

According to the Brussels Times, a report by the Belgian parliamentary economy committee notes that Belgian companies are paying an estimated EUR100 MM per year to criminal hackers.  As claimed by a series of experts that were interviewed by the committee, … Continue reading

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Is Ineffective Technology The Real Reason Why Cybersecurity Is Failing? We Disagree…

HelpNetSecurity.com posted a rather provocative article recently that postulated that the reason why cybersecurity was failing is due to ineffective technology.  Although we can see how many might consider this to be an accurate representation of the cybersecurity industry right now, … Continue reading

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Another Municipality Hit By a Cyber Attack / Cyber Fraud: Why Not Prevent These Occurrences Using WedgeARP – Real-time Threat Prevention?

Here’s an interesting case of a municipality that has lost money, not due to ransomware this time (unlike the other blogs that we’ve done such as: this, this and this) , but due to cyber fraud.  Portageonline.com reported that the Municipality of Westlake-Gladstone, in Manitoba, “was … Continue reading

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