Public Safety committee  If I understand your question correctly. Mr. Picard, you are asking me whether or not the government could use the services of recognized hackers.

Public Safety committee  The contracts that Public Services and Procurement Canada enter into have to be properly done. They have to contain a section on security. A security check has to be done. If an individual, or group of individuals, works on the government's information systems, they have to have

Public Safety committee  Mr. Picard, we already have companies throughout the country that are engaged in white hat hacking activities. These are legitimate companies. There are no criminals involved. People are coming out from the university circuit and getting hands-on experience just as I have done th

Public Safety committee  We're kind of doomed, as you put it, because there are so many devices that have literally been swamping or invading the market without any such verification that they are.... I mean, these thinks put into the hands of people in the sense that they will facilitate their lives an

Public Safety committee  Yes, sir. Some of this documentation exists already, from the NISC in the U.S., which I can say has been projected internationally and is a good way for any business to start. That documentation has been formatted for very large enterprises as well as for SMBs. Definitely, if

Public Safety committee  I'll start with the first question. As you saw, there are so many statistics out there to say there's a lack of cyber-expertise. As testimony to that, my calendar shows that I have a reduced number of opportunities to teach and train people in it. One reason is that the costs hav

Public Safety committee  I'm not sure I'm following your question, sir.

Public Safety committee  Currently, we have agencies such as CSE and the cybersecurity centre that are beginning initiatives to foster and enable some hackfest festivals throughout the country, or conferences to that effect. As an example, I was at the hackfest festival in Quebec City in November, which

Public Safety committee  I saw the transition and the preparation during the Cold War period. What I mean by that is that during the seventies and eighties, computer systems in the armed forces throughout the world were susceptible to that kind of threat. Data processing rooms were built to withstand any

Public Safety committee  Certainly, Mr. Motz. It's a known fact that throughout the world, we have nation-states that are actively developing such a weapon. An EMP—an electromagnetic pulse weapon—will completely fry any electronic components, if not the electrical grid. We would go back to, let's say, h

Public Safety committee  Mr. Picard, we see both extremes. Last week, for example, the personal information of 500 million customers of the biggest bank in India were exposed to the general public because the server that contained that information was not secure and had no password. A system within that

Public Safety committee  The situation is the same for today's software, Mr. Picard. Programmers produce operating systems that are incomplete to which we attach information-processing software that is itself incomplete. You are asking me whether artificial intelligence will be better. I have been told

Public Safety committee  It's something that will be ongoing for the rest of our lives. Software is so incomplete. We have billions of lines of code right now in all kinds of applications, especially operating systems, that it's almost virtually impossible to.... Because the competition is very strong in

Public Safety committee  Financial institutions should invest a little more in training people, their customers. Training sessions should not be by means of videos on the Internet, where it is easy to become distracted. The training should be interactive so that we know whether the customers have fully

Public Safety committee  The financial institutions say yes. From my point of view as a customer of a financial institution, I say no. Often, customers go to their financial institutions, where they are given tools that the institutions guarantee are secure. The clients go home or to work with a tool, an