5 Steps to Engaging Your Audience on Social Media
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MARINER CONTINUES WITH LIVE CYBER SECURITY TRAINING SERIES
HALIFAX – Helping you think like a hacker will be the focus of Mariner’s upcoming cyber security course.
Ethical Hacking and Counter Measures will be a five-day program offered by Mariner Security Solutions at its Halifax office, starting November 27.
“This is a world class course, with a trainer live and in person, to help organizations defend themselves against hackers by understanding how they work,” said Paul Eisner, President of Mariner Innovations. “Ethical hacking is one of the hottest skills for information security professionals. By taking this course, you will be able to learn 270 attack technologies hackers are known to use.”
Eisner noted that by participating in the course, existing security professionals will also earn 30 continuing professional education (CPE) credits, which will support maintaining their certification.
Mariner is also announcing a full suite of security courses for 2018. Dedicated sessions for specific companies and other organizations can also be arranged.
As one of the largest independent information technology services firm in Atlantic Canada, Mariner has a proven track record of helping clients innovate beyond complexity. Since opening for business in 2003, Mariner has developed the top pool of senior hands-on executive talent, delivered advanced IT projects worth more than $2 billion and identified and deployed more than a million hours of skilled talent.
Gerry Pond | Investing in Atlantic Entrepreneurship
Gerry Pond is one of Atlantic Canada’s greatest entrepreneurship champions – an entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist and civic leader. As the Chairman and Co-Founder of Mariner Partners Inc., he has co-founded a number of successful ICT start-ups, including iMagicTV, Q1 Labs, Brovada Technologies, Radian6, Shift Energy and Cirrus9.
GDP Growth Rate Is a Good News Story About the N.B. Economy
Statistics Canada recently released its latest GDP and related figures for 2016 and New Brunswick has performed surprisingly well.
Business capital spending is still very weak but household expenditures are up and overall GDP is up modestly over 2015. If you combine the GDP growth rates over the past two years, the provincial economy grew by 3.5 percent – above average among the 10 provinces.
N.B. Startup Uses ‘Experiential’ Group Buys to Help Pro Teams Boost Ticket Sales
A New Brunswick startup is helping professional sports teams bring a more experiential approach to their group ticket sales– and some big names are taking notice.
We are very happy building a business in Halifax and Canada: LeadSift CEO
Tukan Das, CEO and co-founder of LeadSift – a company that generates leads by mining publicly available information – joins BNN to discuss the growth of the company and why it has no plans of moving its business outside of Canada.
Squiggle Park gets $500k for educational programs
Bite-sized, animated games to help kids learn to read, and made by Halifax-based Squiggle Park, have gotten a big boost with a loan from Canada’s economic development agency.
CVCA Reacts to Announcement of Passive Investment Tax Changes
The Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) welcomes today’s announcement by Finance Minister Bill Morneau regarding the passive investment income tax changes.
SWEPT RAISES $2.5 MILLION TO TACKLE EMPLOYEE TURNOVER IN THE CLEANING INDUSTRY
Swept has raised a $2.5 million seed round led by iNovia Capital with Afore Capital.
Swept initially launched as Clean Simple in November 2015, and later raised $600,000 from HIGHLINE VC, BDC capital, Innovacorp, and EastValley Ventures. Targeted to the janitorial industry, the platform streamlines communication between companies and their cleaners, and includes time-tracking, scheduling, and client problem reporting.