Public Safety committee  It has been hotly debated whether or not it could. The EU had a session on this in 2017. The answer was, “We don't know.”

Public Safety committee  Certainly. The cybersecurity centre I believe you're alluding to is what's going to be spun out of CSE eventually, and I think you have Scott Jones coming in after this to talk about it. When I've discussed this with the government, I've talked about the analogy with what the U.K

Public Safety committee  There are a couple of different challenges there, but I think the first issue is—and I think Dr. Leuprecht would be able to answer this more fully as well—making sure there's a chain that works all the way from education to the job at the end. We actually have some very good exam

Public Safety committee  We're actually producing the skills and getting them hired. It's about getting that pipeline aligned.

Public Safety committee  Exactly.

Public Safety committee  It's a fair assessment, particularly if price becomes the only discriminator, but we've seen industries or marketplaces where we've actually managed to address some of these problems. Think about car theft. As you can tell from the accent, I'm British. In the U.K., one of the w

Public Safety committee  This is classically what we call “end point security”. Literally, it's the end point of the Internet. Let's just step away from the question of who provides this, just for a moment. Whatever is on that end point, if it isn't secure, no matter how good your network is, you've jus

Public Safety committee  Going back to what I mentioned about the Internet of things, the way this has developed is that it's become cheaper and cheaper to literally build and place a tiny little computer into anything. That means you can have a smart fridge, which I don't want, because my wife will know

Public Safety committee  However, what happens with this is that it is about low cost, and security comes at a cost. If you're trying to make something as cheaply as possible, that's the first thing that tends to drop off your list. These things are pervasive. You can get them anywhere and everywhere.

Public Safety committee  I don't have any in-depth research on this, but certainly from the little bits that my team has looked at in the past, it's not so much the cost that would be the first thing I would address, though that is an issue. For some things, such as making sure you have up-to-date system

Public Safety committee  Certainly the public-private partnership route is, I think, one that needs to be explored, because no one sector, on its own, has all the answers. Again, organizations like the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange have attempted to do this. They have brought government in, and they'v

Public Safety committee  I'm not 100% familiar with the Norway model, but if you're talking about a central hub where everything comes in and everything is scrubbed or protected, on the one hand, you have a great advantage in making sure you have central control over everything. The flip side to it is th

Public Safety committee  The Internet of things is a rather interesting phenomenon. Just to go back a little bit, what's happened here is that it has become cheaper and cheaper to basically put a microchip into things—

Public Safety committee  First and foremost, to the assertion that good cybersecurity equals good business and good opportunities for Canada, I would wholeheartedly agree. In an era when data has become so important, and the ability to operate on a virtual basis has become the core or fundamental for alm

Public Safety committee  Certainly embarrassment is one, but it can have financial repercussions as well. Those can be direct—i.e., fines for loss of personal data—and also indirect, such as from the reputational damage that goes with it. You can also have, of course, direct impacts on shareholders, for