Thank you.
Good afternoon.
As part of its IT security mandate, CSEC provides advice, guidance, and services on the protection of electronic information and information infrastructures of importance to the government. CSEC also produces intelligence on foreign cyber-threats. We share this cyber-threat information and mitigation advice with Public Safety as well, for further dissemination to other levels of government and the private sector, as appropriate.
In his report, the Auditor General expressed concern that CSEC was not consistently providing the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre at Public Safety with timely and complete information about threats to Government of Canada information systems. CSEC and CCIRC have developed a close relationship, and at the time of the audit, adequate, secure communications for the transmission of classified information were lacking.
We have bridged this gap and we have also integrated a CCIRC official into our cyber-threat evaluation centre two days a week. We have added not only secure voice communications capacity but more easily accessible secure computer communications on their presence.
The report also referred to funding that CSEC has received since 2001. CSEC has invested some of this funding in activities to improve what we produce on intelligence on foreign cyber-threats. We've improved our detection, analysis, and mitigation of cyber-threats on federal systems. We are developing training for federal practitioners who need to respond to cyber-threats. With our colleagues from Treasury Board and Shared Services, we are designing and developing secure architectures for federal systems. These funds were also used to improve our overall program capacity, which supports all of our mandate activities, including but not exclusively, cyber-security.
While much of the information we produce is highly classified, CSEC continually seeks opportunities to share threat information and IT security advice and guidance beyond the federal government.
Thank you for your attention, and I am happy to answer any questions you may have.