Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee, for your invitation today.
I'm Kristina Casey, the assistant deputy minister of the citizen and business branch at Shared Services Canada.
Shared Services provides core IT services to the Government of Canada's departments and agencies using an enterprise approach. Some of the services we offer include hosting services, including the provision of cloud services across the Government of Canada. We administer brokering services, technical expertise and tools to guide customer departments and simplify cloud adoption. SSC has established a list of pre-qualified cloud vendors that meet security requirements and that can be leveraged by departments, such as CBSA, to run their applications.
SSC's role in regard to the ArriveCAN app was to enable the cloud connectivity and monitoring and supporting infrastructure. It was about providing the foundational platform for an enterprise application to operate. Throughout the Public Health Agency of Canada and Canada Border Services Agency design, development and deployment process of the app, SSC supported the implementation of a number of networking changes to enable the application to securely exchange information between the cloud solution and the Government of Canada data centres. Specifically, this was done by securely housing the app in the cloud and routing network traffic through a secure infrastructure to protect the sensitive data of Canadians and visitors.
I'll leave my opening comments at that.
Thank you very much.