Thank you, Mr. Clerk.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I’m here today to talk to you about cybersecurity in the House of Commons, specifically to give you information on our evolving cybersecurity posture and the House administration’s commitment to protecting the institution and its users from cyber-threats.
The cyber-threat landscape is constantly evolving and becoming increasingly complex and challenging. The proliferation of technologies in this new digital reality is introducing significant growth in new threat vectors. In addition, the sophistication of threat actors is driving the House of Commons administration to continuously evolve and adapt our cybersecurity program to reduce emerging risks.
The House administration IT security team has a specific mandate to strengthen Parliament's cyber-resilience against a continuously evolving digital threat environment. Its role is specifically to protect the availability of IT resources, to ensure the continuity of parliamentary operations and to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the infrastructure system and its users, including members of Parliament and their data, whether in Ottawa, in constituencies or while travelling or working remotely. The House administration IT security team's mandate is for parliamentary information and devices only. Our role does not extend outside of members' legislative functions.
Parliament’s cyber-resilience relies on an integrated approach based on proactive measures such as ongoing monitoring, intelligence, threat hunting, vulnerability management, the development of incident response guides and regular exercises.
It is equally important to take reactive measures to ensure our ability to effectively detect incidents, threats and security breaches, to respond quickly when they are detected and to rely on them as they occur.
This approach is inspired by internationally recognized standards and best practices, such as the ISO 27000 series, the NIST cybersecurity framework, ITSG-22 and ITSG-33. It ensures that security controls and processes are in place to mitigate cyber-risk and to respond adequately to cyber-incidents.
In addition, this integrated approach is supported by various critical partnerships to effectively collaborate, share information and strengthen our cybersecurity posture. I will share more information about these partnerships in the in camera portion of this meeting.
That concludes the public portion of our introduction. We would be happy to take questions or answer any concerns.
Thank you.