Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Absolutely, because with PIN-to-PIN I'm talking to you; therefore, there's no network. It's just radio waves, and the security is just you and me. We're talking to each other, that's the security level. But the rest is not.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If it's a personal address outside of the environment, if it's—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It could be any e-mail sent to the parl.gc.ca site. Everything sent to us will be filtered and analyzed to make sure it's a valid e-mail. When I say “reject”, it means it's a bad e-mail; it's not a valid e-mail. It's an attempt to corrupt or deny services, an e-mail that has no

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, I have always been developing this environment with a concept of an open Parliament, open dialogue. As you are aware, there was a Speaker's decision two or three years ago about opening the members' permission, allowing downloading data, re-using our content. I think your

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think the answer to this is yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think the BlackBerry represents the highest security available for smart phones right now on Parliament Hill. There's no doubt it has achieved a high level of security certification, and therefore they are good tools to use. They were developed in support of our corporate infra

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can perhaps answer the first part of this question. CSE does not have really any authority on Parliament Hill. However, it will cooperate, upon request, to help me manage my environment. If it's beyond monitoring or beyond managing the precinct, if it crosses the line and may

Procedure and House Affairs committee  With regard to any request from members about e-mails they receive, if they were received on the mail system of the House of Commons, we maintain logs of e-mails and logs of Internet access. All of these logs are maintained for a certain length of time, and we are able to do some

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As indicated in what Madame O'Brien is saying, there is no doubt that CSE is the prime vehicle we are working with, because of their role. CSE has been very good in helping us in the choice of technologies, how to do monitoring, and all of that, and also they give us a heads-up o

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There is no doubt that through attachments and through all kinds of things everything is possible. We have identified some very complex infection structures. As an example, they will connect to your PC and will try to make other connections, or import other material, or copy what

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I will give the same comments I gave last year when we were looking at developing committee reports. Often the problem with security is that people don't assess what they intend to do while they're travelling. You should really assess those risks before you travel, and then we ca

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We follow the same thing as the IT acceptable use policies on a regular basis. It's happened at the caucus level, on your caucus web server. We've helped many of you with your caucus servers when there has been infiltration, corruption, spam, and things like that. This has happ