Welcome back. We're going to get started. I would just like to ensure that everyone is in the gallery view at the top right-hand corner. You can switch between speaker view and gallery view. We'd prefer if you stayed on gallery view so you can see all of the members in the committee meeting.
I'd like to make a few comments for the benefit of the new witnesses before us.
Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name. When you are ready to speak, you can click on the microphone icon to activate your mike. Please let us know if you're not familiar with the Zoom application, and we can walk you through some of the features.
I remind everyone that all comments should be addressed through the chair.
Interpretation works just as it does in a regular meeting, if you have appeared before a committee before. You'll have a choice at the bottom of your screen of floor, English or French. As you are speaking, please select the language you are speaking in.
We have simultaneous interpretation. Please make sure, in order to make the lives of the interpreters a little bit easier, that you're speaking slowly and clearly and that you have the right language selected at the bottom of your screen.
Also, please ensure that your mike is on mute when you are not speaking. For quicker interactions later on, when we get to the question-and-answer portion of the panel, you can use your space bar to unmute your mike. Pressing down on the space bar unmutes the mike temporarily. That would be for quicker interactions. However, for your opening statements, I would suggest that you unmute using the icon.
I think you've all been told about headsets. They do improve the quality of the sound, especially for the interpreters, who have to concentrate quite a bit in order to provide the interpretation, so if you have a headset, please wear it.
I'd like to welcome the witnesses before us today. We have academics, and it's really great. Even in the previous panel we got a lot of valuable information from the professors who came before us.
We have Mr. Ghorbani, professor and director at the Canadian Institute of Cybersecurity, University of New Brunswick. We have Mr. Jourdan, professor of computer science, faculty of engineering, University of Ottawa. We have Chris Vickery, director of cyber risk research at Upguard.
Welcome, everyone. Thank you so much for being here today.
We'll have seven-minute opening statements from each of the witnesses, starting with Dr. Ghorbani.
Go ahead, please.