Industry committee  Yes, we've seen activity coming from organizations that have seen malicious, or at least suspicious, activity. We're working with them to determine whether or not it was malicious, where it came from and if it was successful.

Industry committee  We've turned that over to the intelligence side of the business to look at where it's coming from.

Industry committee  I'll start and then turn it over to my colleagues in the RCMP. The first thing we've done is we've really tried to give practical things that every Canadian can do that are within reach. That's something all countries are doing. We've tried to make this as accessible as possible

Industry committee  We're trying to leverage the mandate we have today. I think anything else would be a policy question that should probably be debated by you and the ministry.

Government Operations committee  Yes. Thank you, Minister. In general what we've done is that we've worked with commercial partners and with cyber-centres from around the world to take down anything that is impersonating the Government of Canada to try to dupe Canadians into taking some sort of online action. W

Government Operations committee  Unfortunately, because we look for the malicious activity, we don't look towards Canadians. The CSE Act precludes us from looking towards Canadians. We don't have a count of victims. We have to turn to our colleagues at the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, if a Canadian has reported i

Government Operations committee  In general, the Government of Canada is targeted with approximately two billion malicious activities per day. A lot of that is purely reconnaissance, looking for any vulnerable service, but we're able to take action and we block those with our colleagues at Shared Services. Yes,

Government Operations committee  We have seen no breach of any government systems since the beginning of this event.

Government Operations committee  Thank you. I'll just add a bit more onto that. The Government of Canada has multiple layers of defence that we use. Then we take everything we learn in defending the Government of Canada and make sure it's available to every Canadian business. We've done that in many differen

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for having me continue to appear before you today. I am the head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security within the Communications Security Establishment. We are one of Canada’s key intelligence agencies and the country’s lead technical and

Government Operations committee  Maybe I'll answer the general cybersecurity questions first. On the first aspect in terms of where they come from, they come from all around the world. This is typical for cyber-actors. There is no unique location. What we really look at is how to take care of any of the malici

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. At this time we have about 800 employees spread across the traditional mandate of CSE—which was the cryptographic expertise that we brought—the Government of Canada security operations centre, plus the national CERT as well.

Government Operations committee  Approximately 150 positions were transferred.

Government Operations committee  They were the people doing the functions that existed in those departments. Both departments transferred folks. We integrated them and designed a brand new cyber centre.

Government Operations committee  We work with partners around the world in the international cybersecurity community. When we see malicious activity hitting our country, for example, we can make a request to a national computer emergency response team in any other country. We also have contracted to commercial p