The threat against the Government of Canada has been high for a long time. We always talk about the blocks we're doing, as the Government of Canada. In terms of activity, we say it's four to seven billion blocks per day. Those are a lot of reconnaissance activities and other sorts of threat, but the threats are still there.
We enumerated those international cyber-threat assessments, as well. Really, the sophistication of cybercrime has increased in the past few years. Nation-states are still there. We named China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as the primary countries we're worried about. We still have the sophistication of the state-sponsored threat actors, but we also have the rise of cybercrime in this space as well. That has proven to be very lucrative, I would say, from a ransomware perspective and others. It's really fuelling the threat in that space.
It's very important for us to learn from those threats, which we do on a daily basis. We are the national [Inaudible—Editor], so we see what's happening across Canada, to a certain extent. We also work with our partners to make sure we're taking everything we're learning from those threats and baking it into advice and guidance. We work with our partners, here, to make sure we're putting the best recommendations out, and also building that into our security analytics and the types of defensive solutions we use for the government.
We couple that, of course, with what we've learned from our signals intelligence. CSE is fortunate, in that we have the cyber centre, and also our foreign signals intelligence, which tracks cyber-threat actors around the world and gives us the intel we can use to inform our advice and guidance for Canadians.
