Bell Cyber is expanding its partnership with Radware to offer Canadian businesses an AI-driven security service to combat today’s growing number of highly sophisticated and AI-driven cyberattacks.

“We’re seeing a steady rise in cyberattacks designed to disrupt online services — everything from flooding networks to quietly overwhelming websites and applications so they slow down or go offline,” Cameron Hunter, senior technical product manager, Bell Cyber, said in an email interview with TechNX.

“What’s notable is that these attacks are no longer limited to the largest organizations. They’re becoming easier to launch, more automated and harder to distinguish from normal user traffic. That means governments, financial institutions, telecommunications providers, and any organization with public‑facing digital services are increasingly at risk.”

According to Scotiabank’s Cybersecurity in 2025: A Business Imperative, Not Just an IT Concern report: “Cybercrime is no longer the domain of lone hackers in basements. It has evolved into a global, organized industry.”

The report said in 2024, phishing and ransomware attacks surged, “with phishing alone accounting for 75 per cent of all cyberattacks . . . Global cybercrime costs are projected to reach $23 trillion USD by 2027. In Canada alone, businesses spent over $1.2 billion on recovery in 2023, with small and medium-sized enterprises each absorbing approximately $300 million. The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre received nearly 100,000 fraud reports in 2024, representing over $638 million in reported losses.”

To tackle the sophistication of such attacks, Bell Cyber, which provides managed security solutions to Canadian customers, is integrating into its security offerings Radware’s AI‑based application security solution. Radware provides an additional level of real‑time protection at the network and application level. This helps stop large‑scale and complex attacks before they disrupt services.

Attacks growing in sophistication

All network activity is monitored and validated by Bell Cyber’s 24/7 Security Operations Centre, where security professionals, “correlate signals from Radware with data from across a customer’s wider security environment. This allows Bell Cyber to see the full picture, not just a single alert, and respond in a way that reflects real business impact,” Hunter said.

“From Bell Cyber’s perspective, the challenge isn’t just stopping individual attacks,” he added. “It’s understanding what’s happening across the broader environment, identifying patterns and responding quickly before customers or citizens feel the impact. That’s where having both advanced technology and an operational security team working together becomes critical.”

Organizations and companies being targeted by advanced cyberattacks include governments, financial institutions, telecommunications providers, utilities and transportation organizations — any organization or company that has a public website or runs cloud-based applications to operate their business or interact with customers and clients.

“What these organizations have in common is that downtime isn’t just inconvenient, it can disrupt essential services, erode trust and have real economic or public impact,” Hunter said.