Public Safety committee  What organizations do I not want?

Public Safety committee  I want organizations that do two things. I want organizations that are interested in collaborating, so sharing what's going on, and also honouring the agreement we have, and what they are going to use the information for. I want organizations that are going to use the information

Public Safety committee  From the very narrow perspective of the CCTX, it's not going to matter because that responsibility will reside with each one of our members having to deal with it. Depending on the type of member we have, they will be dealing with it from the financial institutions or they will b

Public Safety committee  I'm not monitoring their networks so I don't see what all of my members are seeing. What I get is the result of what they are looking at on their network, and when they see anomalies coming in, that's what I actually see. I'm not sitting and watching what's going on inside their

Public Safety committee  I'll skip over Y2K, then. One of the challenges for companies is getting them to actually identify the critical information in their systems that they need to protect. If you don't know what's critical, you can't protect it all, so you start to layer it down on the things that a

Public Safety committee  On the companies that we have, no, but that's been happening. A lot of examples come out of small companies. Part of the supply chain is being the source of the target into the much larger organizations. It's one of the reasons—and it was said previously— the banks are so intere

Public Safety committee  That we're being attacked first, or...?

Public Safety committee  Yes. The attackers will come after countries for a variety of reasons. In some instances, we may be the only target of an attack coming in, and other times we'll be a jumping-off point for attacks starting here and going elsewhere, or we can be the second country going down, wh

Public Safety committee  I think we actually are improving. I think one of the big steps was creating the new cyber centre to do that. It's one of the reasons why we're working so closely with them to do that linkage between what the private sector is doing and what the government's doing. As a matter o

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Chair. I would like to thank the committee for giving me the opportunity to speak today about cybersecurity in the financial sector. I'm the Executive Director of the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange, CCTX. I'll highlight the work of the CCTX because I believe it has