Hello. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee, for the invitation to appear for the study of the Auditor General of Canada's report to Parliament on “Cybersecurity of Personal Information in the Cloud”.
My name is Rajiv Gupta, and my pronouns are he and his. I'm the associate head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security at the Communications Security Establishment, also known as the cyber centre.
The Cyber Centre is Canada’s technical authority for cybersecurity, safeguarding Canada with our advanced cybersecurity capabilities and providing a unified source of expert advice and support on cybersecurity operational matters.
I'm happy to be joined by my colleagues from Treasury Board Secretariat, Shared Services Canada and Public Services and Procurement Canada, with whom we work closely on cybersecurity matters.
As part of the cyber centre's operational role, we share cyber-alerts and threat assessments across the Government of Canada to ensure that our information systems remain secure, responsive and well defended. As part of our education role, we work to increase cybersecurity awareness across the government through initiatives like the learning hub.
The Learning Hub is based at the Cyber Centre and provides training to improve the cybersecurity of Canada’s government and critical infrastructure organizations.
During the 2021-22 fiscal year, the learning hub renewed its collaboration with the Canada School of Public Service, CSPS, to provide a standardized cybersecurity curriculum for all—