Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question. I think we need to distinguish a little bit between what is required to register for a TikTok account and what is being asked for to enhance user experience. There might be additional access, as I pointed out in my opening comments, to your contacts

Information & Ethics committee  The banning of TikTok on government devices was a decision made by the Treasury Board CIO of Canada, based on an aggregate risk level that was deemed too high. From a government perspective, the aggregation of all that information could potentially expose who our contacts are wit

Information & Ethics committee  Our concern at the cyber centre is one of raising awareness of the threats posed by social media and educating users about the privacy settings and best practices on how to use those applications—not to volunteer too much personal information and to ensure that the privacy settin

Information & Ethics committee  No, I can't, unfortunately.

Information & Ethics committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of Parliament. I'm pleased to be joining today's meeting. I'd like to acknowledge that we're meeting on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe nation. My name is Sami Khoury and I'm the head of the Canadian Centre for

Science and Research committee  Thank you for the question. I'll start maybe with cybersecurity and then turn to my colleagues. At the cyber centre, our priority is to stay ahead of the threats. We are constantly doing research on the latest threats we are seeing, not just against the government but also aroun

Science and Research committee  Thanks for the question. The comment I'll add is that our priority is to raise the resilience of those universities and those research labs. There is at times, in some academic circles, a bit of a conflict between “open and collaborative” and security. Our role is to be out ther

Science and Research committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. We have a number of ways to engage with academic institutions. At the cyber centre, our priority is to inform and to empower those institutions to raise their cybersecurity awareness and cybersecurity resilience. We do it through advice an

Science and Research committee  Yes, we communicate with them through a number of round tables. Sometimes with universities, it will be through a university round table. Sometimes it will be one-on-one, when the university invites us to have a direct conversation. Technical colleges are also a forum in which

Science and Research committee  It's from where I stopped, I suppose.

Science and Research committee  Consequently, CSE takes a country-agnostic approach, focusing more on combatting the cyber-threats Canada faces than on the region from which such threats originate. Canadian organizations need to be prepared to defend against all emerging cyber-threats, regardless of whether it'

Science and Research committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, and thank you for the opportunity to appear today. My name is Sami Khoury and I am the head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, also known as the cyber centre, within the Communications Security Establishment. I’m joined by my colleague Samantha

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. We work extensively with the private sector and the public sector. We have a number of engagement fora through which we are briefing them regularly. For example, with the health care sector, we have a forum with them every two weeks to brief them on t

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. The threat has not materialized in a direct way, but the threat has materialized through some spillover effects. In the case that my colleague Alia brought up, Russia went after satellite communication against Viasat. As a result, for some western e

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. We've seen, as I mentioned, that Russia is a formidable cyber-player. We've seen the extent of its capabilities in Europe, or at least in Ukraine, with the deployment of cyber-capabilities that are destructive in nature. We've seen it use them against