Public Safety committee  Yes, from Washington.

Public Safety committee  One cold capital to another.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the opportunity to share FireEye's perspective with you on threats to the Canadian financial services sector and to provide an overview of how we as a company and the private sector in general work in partnership with the government to help defe

Public Safety committee  Just to be clear, it's not that Canada per se is especially vulnerable. I guess I meant more that it's an especially important vulnerability for Canada. Obviously, the use of paper ballots takes away a lot of the concerns that we have in the States. Nonetheless, I think this is a

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  I'm not familiar enough with that system to comment on it specifically. Those types of arrangements in general, where you have a data broker that acts as a public trust or an industry-wide trust generally have the effect of improving cybersecurity day to day, but also of making t

Public Safety committee  Yes. Thank you for the question. The targeting of small businesses is an issue that's near and dear to my heart on the policy side. First off, although it's not directly my expertise, I think the move to the cloud has made it possible to get high-quality security providers in mu

Public Safety committee  What we're not as good at in the west is death by a thousand cuts, so actors that destroy 1,000 small businesses won't get the President's or the Prime Minister's attention, but one big compromise will. I think that's a policy failure that should be addressed. In Canada, I would

Public Safety committee  It's interesting in cyber work because 95% of the attacks that are happening are on private sector networks against private sector victims. Often, in the United States and elsewhere, the first to know about it might be the private sector. Governments can have more powerful respon

Public Safety committee  For FireEye as a company, it's not an issue that we follow. We're looking at software threats, not the sort of hardware threats that are alleged. I absolutely understand in principle why, particularly for government networks, you would want all your telecommunications equipment

Public Safety committee  I think you'll find that, at least within the information security community, a large majority of the biggest companies work together on standards and exchange information, even with peer competitors, for example, collecting threat intelligence. We often co-operate behind the sce

Public Safety committee  My number one concern with the Internet of things, which I think is what you're describing—Internet-connected physical devices—is that many of those devices are not updatable at all. Even if you discover a flaw in them, it's not technically possible to go in and fix it. That's an

Public Safety committee  Yes, absolutely.

Public Safety committee  I share your concern, and I agree with you. Oftentimes I feel that even companies in the financial sector that have fairly sophisticated security organizations internal to themselves don't see the threats coming. They know that threats in general are coming, but to your point, th

Public Safety committee  Yes, absolutely. Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair. The good news and bad news is that because cyber-policy is still so nascent, and your allies are still grasping at something that will actually work, Canada has a de facto opportunity to be a leader in this field by finding