Public Safety committee  We are seeing increased numbers of people trying to gain access to our networks, which suggests increased investment. I don't know for a fact, but we are seeing large numbers of different entities trying to get into our networks. I think you have a comment, Mr. Burt.

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, I can qualify that cyber as a domain of operations has now been certified as—much like air, land, sea, and space—its own domain. We saw in the recent defence policy the increased mandate to incorporate an act of cyber. We've been defending military networks for a long

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I can't give you the specific numbers of state and non-state actors we see trying to penetrate the networks both within our structure and outside of it on a daily basis, but I can tell you that both state and non-state actors are trying to penetrate network

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, I can really only reiterate what I said earlier, which is that it's all based on threat assessment, so the broad answer to your question is that there is no difference in how we approach the problem. The specifics of what we will deploy to support any individual operat

National Defence committee  You're asking me if it compromises cybersecurity. I know I wear a navy uniform, but I must say I haven't worked within the navy structure for a number of years, so I'm not aware of their analysis of the threat that this morale tool introduces. I wouldn't want to speak out of turn

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I mentioned earlier, the human resource demand in this occupation is extreme and very difficult. We don't take it lightly. I would say I spend the vast majority of my time trying to understand innovative ways to come to that answer. The first tranche o

National Defence committee  Yes. Mr. Chair, I would just add one point. Like many other government partners, we will work with the Communications Security Establishment to increase the capabilities of the Canadian Armed Forces, but I want to be perfectly clear. Any military operation that the Canadian Arme

National Defence committee  If I have time, Mr. Chair, I'll continue.

National Defence committee  Just to clarify one term, Mr. Chair, “active cyber” is a mixture of what we would consider active defence and what we would consider offence. It's the difference between standing on your castle wall waiting till the guys are coming in through your wall and then attacking them or

National Defence committee  I'm actually in exactly the same space, unfortunately, in terms of the impact of that. In a broad context, when we have more people discussing and sharing information on the cyber-threat, it's usually better. If there are shared equities that get pulled from one to the other, tha

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to speak on this question. As was mentioned earlier, the policy to conduct active cyber operations for the Canadian Armed Forces just came out in their recent defence policy. We're working with our international and government partners t

National Defence committee  I think it's important to know what our mandate is and what the government wants National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces to do. Right now, as it stands, our mandate is to protect the Canadian Armed Forces networks and provide support when we're asked. Coming back to an ea

National Defence committee  I would like to come back to Mr. Bastien's earlier point, from a Canadian Armed Forces perspective, about what we are doing for a cyber workforce way ahead. The policy was very clear that we shall stand up a cyber operator trade. As Mr. Bastien also mentioned, it's very exciting.

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just to be a bit more specific, and coming back one step, whenever we send our troops into operational missions, there is a full analysis done on threat. That's been done forever, and the new threats emerging in the last 20 years have been the cyber threat

National Defence committee  What I can talk about is what we're doing. From a policy perspective, Canada has a full-time cyber officer within NATO headquarters to help inform NATO policies. That's what we're doing. As Mr. Bastien talked about earlier, in multiple governance groups, we are participating in t