Digital Risk & Awareness
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Three Things Businesses Need to Know About Email Marketing to Canadian Inboxes
Your marketing emails aren’t harmless (and they’re costing people something real) Nobody started a business thinking, “I’d love to waste people’s time.” But that’s exactly what happens when you send unsolicited or poorly managed marketing emails. And unlike money, time is the one thing people don’t get back. Every unnecessary email you send is a
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Finding Public Files That Probably Shouldn’t Be Public
Most cybersecurity conversations about exposure focus on breaches, ransomware, or stolen credentials. Those are real threats, but many organizations overlook another category of risk: files that were never hacked at all, but which were simply made public or left publuc by mistake. That was the focus of my AtlSecCon 2026 presentation: how attackers, investigators, and
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Conduct a Digital Asset Inventory for Your Business
Most organizations know they have computers, websites, and email accounts. Fewer know the full extent of everything connected to their business online. Many things can exists outside of what you think you may be managing, including accidental leaks, shadow IT, forgotten vendors, outdated websites, abandoned cloud storage, and misconfigured systems. Whether you’re trying to get
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Guess Who? A Practical Look at Today’s Threat Actors
Aka, who’s actually out there, doing shady stuff… Understanding the different types of threat actors is one of the most effective ways to make sense of how and why incidents actually happen, and why many of them are far less sophisticated than we tend to assume. In today’s article, we’ll be exploring some of the
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Gmail address tagging… How and why to use it
A Simple Email Trick to Track Your Online Exposure There’s a small trick built into Gmail that most people either don’t know about or never think to use—and it can give you a surprising amount of insight into where your personal data ends up. Google refers to it as using email tags. On the surface,
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Your email is more than just your contact…
Your Email Address Is Not Just Contact Info It’s easy to think of your email address as something trivial—just the place where messages land. You give it out to sign up for things, to receive receipts, to log into services. But from a personal security perspective, your email address is one of the most stable
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My grandpappy didn’t die so you could continue sending me SPAM
My grandpappy fought long and hard, and gave his life for my right to an uncluttered inbox… Okay, maybe I don’t have a grandpappy that died in a spam war, but hear me out for a sec. As a Canadian, you have certain rights related to your email inbox as a commercial communications channel. Those