Information & Ethics committee  I welcome the invitation. No. We do provide advice to political parties. As you may have heard, one of the measures we use with campaign managers and others is a simulation. Phishing emails are a good example. To this day, phishing emails remain the most prevalent threat coming

Information & Ethics committee  That's a good warning, if you know me and the microphone. The really good news that Mr. Rogers just talked about—the fact that we have one joint team—is a strength in Canada, an absolute strength. The equivalent of the Homeland Security, or DHS, in the U.S. definitely exists in

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, absolutely. There will likely be many more events that do not pass the threshold. The practice of the cyber centre has always been—and will continue to be—to inform those who are affected or potentially affected when we detect incidents or events of significance. Unlike the

Information & Ethics committee  I will provide some answers. When an individual notices that their account has been hacked by someone and that wrong information has been disseminated, they can go on our website, where we say what should be done in hacking cases. One of the first things to do is take back contr

Information & Ethics committee  The first answer I gave was in the context of social media hacking. Your second question, if I understand correctly, is about the hacking of electoral systems, correct?

Information & Ethics committee  It is important to reassure us. We have been working with Elections Canada for a number of years to implement the necessary protection measures to avoid these types of incidents. If someone is getting into our systems, that activity must be detected as soon as possible to stop th

Information & Ethics committee  The basis for our analysis is a global trend upwards in threats to democratic institutions. We don't spend inordinate amounts of time trying to attribute where that behaviour comes from. The resources we have we turn towards detecting, finding solutions and turning to prevention

Information & Ethics committee  We certainly start a conversation with, “I expect all products in my ecosystem to be of the best quality possible,” so if we were to observe or someone was reporting to us that there was something not right with the software or the hardware, would we investigate and try to get to

Information & Ethics committee  The information would come to me from that team. We've never hesitated to engage with companies, domestic or foreign, regarding the quality and behaviour of their devices or software. We would do exactly the same in this instance.

Information & Ethics committee  I will address a bit of that. The $7 million announced are incremental funds toward specific activities. I think we can't lose sight of the fact that we've actually started...even before the first “Cyber Threats To Canada's Democratic Process” report, we have engaged with all the

Information & Ethics committee  The publication of the update to the threat assessment is imminent. It's providing my team the time necessary to also build the advice and guidance that's focused and targeted to the elements of that report. I'd hate to pre-publish the report today, but I would assure you that we

Information & Ethics committee  From a cyber centre perspective, the presence of the ecosystem...are all companies. My concern starts with the equipment we all use, the software that's on that equipment, and the way we interact with that equipment in those networks. From my perspective, social media companies

Information & Ethics committee  It is not the focus of the cyber centre to analyze or make comments on the information carried by computers, emails or social media content, but we expect all companies to behave as good Canadian citizens and be mindful of their presence and their responsibilities in that presenc

Information & Ethics committee  The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security is in fact one of many such national centres. We work very closely with similar centres and the Five Eyes, but also with centres around the world. Part of the centre also is the national CERT, the national element that does emergency respons