Public Accounts committee  Maybe I can add to that. Part of the work we do at the enterprise architecture review board, where these major initiatives come through as part of their governance process, is to ensure that alignment and interoperability. One of the recommendations we make is to make sure that

Public Accounts committee  Yes, and this could get into a very technical discussion, but there are a couple of elements that are important. Scale is always a necessary factor, and that's why we look at enterprise architecture and interoperability: to ensure scale. When you can buy something that already

Government Operations committee  Absolutely. Security is paramount. Monitoring for those risks is also paramount. The interesting thing is that sometimes, when the technology gets so old, they become things that hackers don't go after anymore. The biggest risk is the things that are widely deployed but are not

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Paul. Yes, we joke that some of the systems that run the old age security are ready for old age security. These are mainframe solutions that were written way before DOS on COBOL and other legacy platforms. There's probably some DOS in there somewhere. I don't know of

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Paul. Good afternoon, Ms. Vignola. Mr. Glover is talking about the condition or state of the applications in our organization. We have a database of all the applications and we monitor the shape they are in. A few years ago, they scored about 23 or 24%, and they now

Government Operations committee  I think Mr. Glover could answer your question better. What I will say is that for our part, we are responsible for applications.

Government Operations committee  I can explain the situation to some extent. The numbers changed as we conducted our investigation. According to the most recent reported figures, there were 9,300 GCKey accounts. This system is part of the identity program for more than 24 departments. The problem occurred more

Government Operations committee  I can't answer that. It's under investigation by the RCMP.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Minister. No, there has not been much of an increase in breaches. However, there were more attacks on matters related to COVID-19. With the Shared Services Canada security perimeter, it's as if employees were working on the network. The network remains protected.

Government Operations committee  One of the large challenges of the credential stuffing attacks is that they are reusing credentials taken elsewhere and impersonating a valid Canadian. From the system's perspective, they are going through the system in a normal way; they aren't going through a back door. There w

Government Operations committee  I would just add that the quantum shift is a very complex and multi-faceted endeavour that requires many areas of research. Paul earlier mentioned Moore's Law. We anticipate that Moore's Law may reach physical barriers on our current technologies. Quantum will be the answer to be

Government Operations committee  Do you want me to take a crack at that, Paul?

Government Operations committee  I think part of our resiliency and our disaster recovery is not to be dependent on any single infrastructure or any single environment. The cloud offers an opportunity like never before, where it's very easy to stand up a parallel environment on the Amazon web services in one of

Government Operations committee  For all security matters, we have standards that define the requirements for different levels of protection of information. On the personal information and operational information it is Protected A, B and C, and on the national security side it's classified secret and top secret.

Government Operations committee  As you know, the planning for that has just begun. I think it's a little premature to provide any time estimates. But what I will say is that it's being actively looked at and that planning for where that can go is ongoing.