Jim Love

I've been in IT and business for over 30 years. I worked my way up, literally from the mail room and I've done every job from mail clerk to CEO. Today I'm CIO and Chief Digital Officer of IT World Canada - Canada's leader in ICT publishing and digital marketing.

Articles by Jim Love

This week in ransomware – April 22, 2022

Ransomware continues to grow as a threat. While the overwhelming number of attacks are from a few of the “big players”, even when these...

This week in ransomware – Friday, April 7th, 2022

Ransomware:  Hospitals, schools and local businesses are all targets A recent study from telecommunications company Telus has noted that “the pervasive increase in ransomware seen...

This week in ransomware – Friday, April 1, 2022: something old, something new

Cybersecurity attacks are growing in frequency and severity: Telus study A recent study from telecommunications company Telus has reported that cyberattacks are on the rise...

This week in ransomware

A recent study from telecommunications company Telus, has revealed that not every company that pays a ransom gets their data back. In fact, the...

Splinternet: will Russia pull itself off the internet?

Ukraine's representative on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently asked that Russia's top-level domains (TLD) including .ru and .su be...

2021 year in review – IT under attack

Had Charles Dickens been alive today, his famous work might have started with “It was the worst of times, and some other stuff was...

MapleSEC Diary, Day 2 – Building Resilience

These are my insights from the second day of Canada’s MapleSEC Cybersecurity conference. Jim Love, CIO for IT World Canada Building resilience was the theme...

MapleSEC.ca 2021 – day 1 attendee diary

Canada's nationwide cybersecurity event, MapleSEC, opened for a second year with a look at the threat landscape, appropriately titled 'Standing On Guard'. Between the...

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