Golfdale Consulting conducted a study in March of 2023, examining current Canadian attitudes toward seeking medical treatment abroad. In total, 500 adult Canadians who had a previous serious medical condition were surveyed on their likelihood to consider treatment outside of Canada, their reasons and/or reluctance to consider doing so. This infogram provides key highlights from the survey.
The OCC’s 7th annual Ontario Economic Report (OER) offers unique insights into the perspectives and experiences of businesses across Ontario. The report is driven by data from our Business Confidence Survey, conducted by Golfdale Consulting, and regional economic forecasts.
The 2023 OER reveals the effects of prolonged economic uncertainty and a shifting business landscape. Labour shortages, inflation, and forecasts of an economic slowdown are dampening confidence in Ontario’s outlook. Still, most businesses feel confident they can withstand the headwinds and continue to grow in the year ahead.
Given the importance that eLearning plays in developing secure software, this ebook provides an overview of our research into AppSec training approaches. Findings include “deep dives” into budgeting, training challenges, time consuming elements, how best to reinforce AppSec eLearning, and the value of accreditation to individual contributors, managers, and organizations.
Most developers involved in product builds believe their companies to have a mature security posture but nonetheless struggle to keep up to date with growing regulations and compliance requirements. On the cybersecurity front, developers view automated modeling, integration with other tools, and matching the speed of new threats that emerge as all highly important. Security must start with design and remain a critical element at each stage of the SDLC.
Over 90% of mid-market companies that develop software are interested in solutions that automate proactive security and compliance processes.
Companies looking to accelerate their software development in tandem with stronger cybersecurity compliance measures are looking to just-in-time training (JITT) for their software developers and automated built-to-purpose cybersecurity software for accomplishing these goals.
The TrustArc Global Benchmark report provides a 360 view of how enterprises manage data protection and privacy. Feedback came from senior leadership inside the privacy office and privacy team members. We also comprehensively surveyed senior executives, middle management, and non-managerial full-time employees. For the 3rd year running, insights are provided on current privacy challenges and global privacy trends.
Key Highlight:
Business confidence increased in 2021 from a record low last year, amid progress on vaccinations and reopening. Overall, 29 percent of Ontario businesses are confident in Ontario’s economic outlook and 57 percent are confident in the outlook of their own organizations.
More pessimism is observed in smaller businesses, those located in border regions, organizations led by women and people with disabilities, and businesses in the arts, entertainment, and agricultural sectors.
This year-end summary highlights four primary research studies Security Compass commissioned in 2021 on topics in Cybersecurity, covering DevSecOps, Cloud Adoption, Threat Modeling, and the US DoD. The research was conducted independently by Golfdale Consulting, Inc.
The report quantifies the challenges and opportunities being confronted by US government agencies at the federal, state and local levels. Software development methods, security expertise, developer controls and mitigations, communication approaches, and current approaches to ATO compliant software development are explored.
This original research underscores one truism from experts who foresaw the future in this field: “Security isn’t icing on top of a cake. It needs to be baked in from the start.”
