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Public Safety committee Yes, absolutely.
February 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Christopher Porter
Public Safety committee I share your concern, and I agree with you. Oftentimes I feel that even companies in the financial sector that have fairly sophisticated security organizations internal to themselves don't see the threats coming. They know that threats in general are coming, but to your point, th
February 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Christopher Porter
Public Safety committee My number one concern with the Internet of things, which I think is what you're describing—Internet-connected physical devices—is that many of those devices are not updatable at all. Even if you discover a flaw in them, it's not technically possible to go in and fix it. That's an
February 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Christopher Porter
Public Safety committee It's interesting in cyber work because 95% of the attacks that are happening are on private sector networks against private sector victims. Often, in the United States and elsewhere, the first to know about it might be the private sector. Governments can have more powerful respon
February 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Christopher Porter
Public Safety committee For FireEye as a company, it's not an issue that we follow. We're looking at software threats, not the sort of hardware threats that are alleged. I absolutely understand in principle why, particularly for government networks, you would want all your telecommunications equipment
February 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Christopher Porter
Public Safety committee I think you'll find that, at least within the information security community, a large majority of the biggest companies work together on standards and exchange information, even with peer competitors, for example, collecting threat intelligence. We often co-operate behind the sce
February 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Christopher Porter
Public Safety committee I'm not familiar enough with that system to comment on it specifically. Those types of arrangements in general, where you have a data broker that acts as a public trust or an industry-wide trust generally have the effect of improving cybersecurity day to day, but also of making t
February 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Christopher Porter
Public Safety committee Yes. Thank you for the question. The targeting of small businesses is an issue that's near and dear to my heart on the policy side. First off, although it's not directly my expertise, I think the move to the cloud has made it possible to get high-quality security providers in mu
February 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Christopher Porter
Public Safety committee What we're not as good at in the west is death by a thousand cuts, so actors that destroy 1,000 small businesses won't get the President's or the Prime Minister's attention, but one big compromise will. I think that's a policy failure that should be addressed. In Canada, I would
February 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Christopher Porter
Public Safety committee Just to be clear, it's not that Canada per se is especially vulnerable. I guess I meant more that it's an especially important vulnerability for Canada. Obviously, the use of paper ballots takes away a lot of the concerns that we have in the States. Nonetheless, I think this is a
February 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Christopher Porter
February 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Christopher Porter
Public Safety committee Yes, from Washington.
February 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Christopher Porter
Public Safety committee One cold capital to another.
February 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Christopher Porter
Public Safety committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the opportunity to share FireEye's perspective with you on threats to the Canadian financial services sector and to provide an overview of how we as a company and the private sector in general work in partnership with the government to help defe
February 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Christopher Porter