As I think everyone understands, the security of our information holdings is a top priority of the government. Since 2010, coordinated efforts by the government have contributed to significant improvements to the Government of Canada's cybersecurity posture. These initiatives have included coordinated approaches to collecting and analyzing cyber-threat intelligence, reducing the overall attack surface by consolidating Internet access points, and standardizing the planning and implementation of network security across the government.
In budget 2016, the government continues this commitment by making commitments totalling $77.4 million in additional funding over the budget horizon. This funding will be used to support or to implement a vulnerability management and compliance regime across the Government of Canada enterprise. It will reduce the number of privileged user accounts across the government in order to minimize vulnerability to data breaches, and we will be implementing an application whitelisting in order to reduce Government of Canada vulnerability to zero-day malware.
I have to be honest with you that, if you want to know what an application whitelisting is, I think you'll have to speak to our chief information officer branch or perhaps Mr. Fadden, but those are the purposes of the money set out in budget 2016.