The registration site for GovSym is now closed.

If you are interested in attending the event on Tuesday, December 1st, please register on site at Hilton Lac-Leamy, 3, boulevard du Casino, Gatineau-Ottawa, QC.

GovSym, an annual one-day security and information protection symposium, will explore endpoint security, disaster recovery, compliance, eDiscovery, crisis mitigation and other key issues affecting government today through plenary sessions and two educational tracks:

• Best Practices Track will focus on best practices and usage of influential IT systems and solutions that help protect information. This track is designed for government IT and program managers.


• Executive Track will focus on emerging business trends and government IT challenges that are affecting the public sector C-level decision-making process. This track is designed for senior government executives: Senior IT and program executives, CIOs, DCIOs, CTOs, DGs, and ADMs.

Attendance to GovSym is complimentary and limited to qualified government executives and their IT and program management teams. GovSym reserves the right to limit attendance to qualified practitioners.

Canada's info, privacy bodies want open government
Canada’s information and privacy commissioners have become advocates for open government, issuing a joint resolution and a call for all levels of government across the country to follow their lead
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Nokia setting up enterprise mail servers in India
Nokia will set up servers in India by November for its push e-mail service in the country to comply with government regulations
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RIM gets 60 days reprieve as India evaluates proposals
India says will try out interception solutions proposed by RIM and review the situation after 60 days. The government maintains that communications through telecom networks should be accessible to security agencies
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CRTC rules in favour of Internet providers
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ruled that telecommunications carriers and cable providers must provide wholesale services to independent ISPs at the same speeds at which they provide service to their retail customers. They are allowed to mark the prices up 10 per cent.
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