As I mentioned earlier, a safe and secure cyberspace truly is important for the stability and the prosperity of our country, and it's a core mandate of the Communications Security Establishment's mission and our role mandate.
To your question about how we govern ourselves around cybersecurity, if I can put it that way, I'll offer a couple of comments. First of all, I can assure the committee that up to this point we work very closely with all of the various partners that you mentioned; with the public safety department, for example, which runs a response centre that deals directly with citizens and with the private sector.
We work very closely with our colleagues in Shared Services Canada. We are focusing on protecting the Government of Canada's systems through a very robust process. We have more than a billion malicious probes a day now into Government of Canada systems, which we are protecting with our colleagues in Shared Services Canada.
We also work very closely with our partners in the Canadian Armed Forces, ensuring that the Canadian Armed Forces' systems are secure as well.
More and more we're working with private industry as well, to speak to your point. They're trying to ensure that their overall systems are secure, and we are doing everything we can to operate as a bit of an ecosystem, to ensure that we're sharing best practices and lessons learned.
No one can have all the answers in this field; we recognize that. How, then, do we ensure that we're working collectively across all those various communities? The item that I mentioned was put forward in budget 2018 is a bit of a milestone in terms of ensuring that we operate even more closely together.
It talks about the establishment of a Canadian centre for cybersecurity. It would be an operational hub: one central, trusted source of advice and guidance for the Government of Canada, for private industry, for Canadians writ large, unifying all of our cybersecurity operations, our advice, and guidance into a consolidated centre. The centre, again, was just announced. We also see the centre as having an important role for response when a cyber-incident occurs, so that there is a common place to go for advice and guidance.
I understand my time is up, Mr. Chair.