Procedure and House Affairs committee  I really don't. It's important to recognize that authentication to multiple layers, including biometrics, would add more security to the operation. As mentioned by Guy-Vincent, it's easy to implement it. In short, yes, this might be a good thing to consider, using biometrics to a

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I do not have much of a concern except that, of course, we are giving the malicious people a schedule, so they actually know and can be prepared. To some extent, if it is public and it is getting into the hands of everyone, those who are malicious are better prepared at the sched

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Verify it in the end, but, yes, we do.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much, and hello to you from New Brunswick. Yes, the cyber-incident response plan is an integral part of any plan you must have in your organization when it comes to cyberspace and cybersecurity, that's for sure, but we also have to recognize that we have a fairly

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To my mind, if you're asking me, all MPs should be included in this process. A couple of years ago, we were in front of a few MPs to show them how easily they could be attacked or hacked through their phones or their laptops. It's important that all MPs get the training, and al

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To me, they are as safe as they can be right now. They are safe, but as I said, the only thing I'm concerned about is the verifiability issue. There has to be a plan in place by the House in order to verify the total tally, the details of the tally, and also the availability issu

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Fundamentally, this probably would be the case where the person does not use the proper equipment or system and software, so a third party could get in between, and the data in transit could be altered or changed, etc. That's how I can see it from the human perspective: an error

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Sure. I think what is important to recognize here is that when we talk about training, it is not that IT people are always being trained or that they have to be front of people to train them. We need to bring people with all sorts of expertise into the conversation, such as group

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would like to second what was said. In order to make sure that we do have a secure, verifiable and available system, we need to work on diversity, basically. We could end up having two systems marrying each other so if one were closed down, the other one could actually hold on

Procedure and House Affairs committee  First, I think the issue of awareness has to be a continuous agenda within Parliament to make sure that every so often the members are aware and trained about the new issues and problems that come up. It's not one-time training and you're done with it. Second, I would disagree t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I will say similarly that Zoom is not unique in terms of security flaws. Any video conferencing platform would have issues. Zoom became famous with the Zoom bombing, etc., that happened recently, but they at least have openly reviewed a proposal for end-to-end encryption that wou

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Honourable members of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, thank you for inviting the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity at the University of New Brunswick to speak today about cybersecurity considerations relating to the establishment of a hybrid Parliament.