National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee, for the invitation to appear today. My name is Sami Khoury. I'm the head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, often referred to as the Communications Security Establishment's cyber centre. CSE, reporting to the Minister

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. From the cyber centre perspective, our priority is to defend Canada against all sorts of cyber incidents, regardless of the sector, but we are paying particular attention to the critical infrastructure sectors to make sure they have the necessary too

National Defence committee  In our national cyber-threat assessment of 2020, we called out the capabilities of the four of them—Russia, China, North Korea and Iran—as being state-sponsored programs of the greatest strategic threat to Canada. It's difficult to compare one against the other, but I would sugge

National Defence committee  Anonymous, like many other organizations, brings a certain level of threat to the cybersecurity of a country. We've seen some of them align with Russia and some of them align with the Ukrainian cause in the context of the current geopolitical tension. Again, we learn as much as

National Defence committee  I will defer to Australia to comment about the nature of the incident that—

National Defence committee  We track the activities of Huawei and other telecom operators around the world, and that helps inform the security of the Canadian telecom infrastructure.

National Defence committee  Again, we track all of these reportings. They help formulate the position of the cyber centre on how to protect the Canadian telecommunication infrastructure.

National Defence committee  I would echo what Ms. Henderson said. This is a whole-of-society effort. We learn a lot from all of the cyber-incidents in the government. From that experience, we promulgate that information to the public sector and the private sector and Canadian citizens at large and we collec

National Defence committee  From a cyber centre perspective, that teamwork across government and across Canada is extremely important. Reporting cyber-incidents will be very important, so that we learn from all of those incidents that are happening and then we can up the cybersecurity of the country.

National Defence committee  I, too, was going to say that the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, FINTRAC, would be in a better position to answer that question.

National Defence committee  Thank you for your question. I would say that they absolutely do. We are constantly in contact with our neighbours at CSIS and our counterparts in the Canadian Armed Forces. In fact, we support two of their missions, operations Unifier and Reassurance, so we have good lines of c

National Defence committee  For an answer to that question, I would refer you to the Canadian Armed Forces. If the armed forces can't answer, I can provide the information.

National Defence committee  I would prefer to get back to you in writing, if I may.

National Defence committee  The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security plays an important role in the integrity of our supply chains. If we had to examine the privatization of a service—within the federal government, I mean—we would have a hand in evaluating the program. If you're talking about a domestic thre

National Defence committee  Of course, we work with private sector stakeholders on a number of issues. In some cases, they provide us with details related to cyber threats. I would say the relationship is more complementary, but when it comes to cyber incidents, there are things that CSE does not do. For e