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ORION’s Belt: Issue 1

Brian Orlotti Network Operator, ORION

September 5, 2018

ORION’s Belt is our blog series highlighting a month of digital infrastructure’s latest shining stars. Each month, we’ll pick out some of the interesting stories we’ve been reading about. Have an idea you’d like to share? Shoot us a message. Researchers ... Continue Reading

CANHEIT Conference 2018

DAVID SMITH Chief Technology Officer, ORION

July 20, 2018

OverviewA few weeks ago, ORION’s Director, Marketing and Communications, Cathy Bogaart, our Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Farooq Naiyer and I attended the CANHEIT conference that took place at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Burnaby, BC. CANHEIT is the largest ... Continue Reading

ORION launches shared CISO to improve security for Ontario education institutions

April 25, 2017

(Toronto) —ORION is proud to announce the launch of a shared Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) pilot initiative together with eight Ontario higher education institutions.Introduced in response to demand from the research and education community, this two-year pilot project will establish ... Continue Reading

Higher Education Summit 2016 – Digital Learning Highlights

October 14, 2016

The countdown to Higher Education Summit 2016 is on! ORION proudly sponsors the annual event hosted by Colleges Ontario, and is pleased to host the opening gala, Decades, an ode to the 50th anniversary of the province's college system.As Ontario's ... Continue Reading

The Cyber Siege of Higher Education in North America

David Shipley Director of Strategic Initiatives, Information Technology Services at the University of New Brunswick

February 8, 2016

Why are higher education institutions particularly susceptible to cybersecurity threats, and what can be done to mitigate them? IT leader David Shipley, who will be speaking at the 2016 Tech Security Seminar, weighs in. The full-length article originally appeared in EDUCAUSE, a ... Continue Reading