Procedure and House Affairs committee  On things like that; they're attempts to deface, usually hacktivist-type activity.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, not that we had seen.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There were some pieces outside of the cyber realm. In terms of any further details on that, I'm probably not the right person to talk about it from the cyber perspective.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's outside my area of expertise and also not an area that we would cover.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We have a number of things. One is simply configuring when you're using mobile devices. Obviously as members of Parliament you have to travel quite extensively, but in your ridings, etc., we have a number of pieces of advice and guidance on our website. I know that we've actually

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Elections Canada has reacted very quickly. We started working with them before the 2015 election. That has continued unbroken since. They're very aware of the rapidly evolving environment. I think one of the issues we have in terms of dealing with individual politicians and pol

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's probably best left to the RCMP. Anything that is illegal interference with a computer system or any type of activity would probably qualify, but it's probably best left for my colleagues in the RCMP to address.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. With social engineering, I think the thing they're usually taking advantage of is time. How quickly...? You're busy, so they want to catch you off guard and get you to click on something. In social engineering, I'm really talking about them trying to convince you they're som

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think the thing right now is that it wouldn't be CSE's lead. That would really be the lead of Public Safety Canada and the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre, at least in the broader context of a larger piece of infrastructure, but as the Canadian centre for cybersecurity

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would say that we have to evaluate software constantly in terms of which is the most up to date. The key thing, no matter what you're using, is to ensure that it's up to date and patched. Those are the critical factors.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are a few areas. We've been working with Elections Canada on general architecture, advice, and guidance, things such as supply-chain integrity, contractual clauses, and so on, as they start to establish the infrastructure for the election. In addition, though, we've also wo

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think it's a mix. If you look at political parties and politicians as candidates, the lack of advice that can be practically implemented and easy to use...technology itself is a barrier to that. It is hard to implement proper security right now. It's not simply something that y

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It all depends on how early you get in and start working on security. If you look at security from the very beginning, you can design a system that is able to protect itself, that's able to detect when there is malicious activity happening, and that is able to assure that the dat

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. My name is Scott Jones and I'm the head of cybersecurity at the Communications Security Establishment. As mentioned, I'm accompanied by Jason Besner, the Director of the Cyber Threat Evaluation Centre, or CTEC, at CSE. Thank