National Defence committee  Yes. While the cyber centre's primary mission is to protect the government and lead the response to cyber incidents, we work side by side with the public and private sectors. We have a number of engagement platforms with the sectors through sectoral tables, be it energy, electric

National Defence committee  It's difficult to compare one sector against another. The threats could be different. Our role at the cyber centre is to make sure we pass on all the information to all the critical sectors—be those finance, energy, transportation or health care—and to make sure they all have the

National Defence committee  There's a program under which we can work with the various entities to assess their cybersecurity maturity, and we're happy to work with all of them. Every sector needs something different, so the programs that we tailor to, for example, municipal engagement, are different from t

National Defence committee  We know that ransomware incidents are under-reported, so we encourage everybody to reach out to us, whether an incident is big or small, to share with us the nature of the cyber-incident so we can learn from it and quickly turn around to mitigate the threat across Canada. The mor

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. As the chief pointed out, we do have a very good working relationship with lots of tech companies out there, including social media companies. The nature of our relationship with those companies is to make sure that we understand how they

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for the invitation to appear today. My name is Sami Khoury. My pronouns are he and him. I am the head of the Communications Security Establishment's Canadian centre for cybersecurity, known as the cyber centre. I am joined tod

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. We monitored. We have good partnerships with all of the telecom operators, and shortly after the outage, we were in touch with Rogers to ascertain the nature of the outage.

National Defence committee  I called to ask.

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. I'm happy to speak about that. Regarding ransomware, when we issued our third national cyber-threat assessment, we continued to highlight the threat that ransomware poses to Canadians and Canadian organizations. It's a serious threat, as we can see in

National Defence committee  Thank you. There is no requirement for the private sector to report to us ransomware incidents, and many of them don't report it. As a matter of fact, in 2021 we've only had reports of about 300 ransomware incidents to the cyber centre, which is probably under-reporting for a num

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. We have a number of programs or regular engagements with various critical infrastructure sectors, including municipalities. We hold regular calls with them. I personally get invited to speak at their annual events or at their conferences to share with

National Defence committee  Thank you again for this important question. Recruitment is challenging, and it's a highly competitive space out there. We are trying to hire for a number of positions, for a variety of positions, and to ensure that we hire Canadians who represent the rich and diverse society in

National Defence committee  We are very mindful of the challenges associated with the current employment landscape. We endeavour to attract talent from all over Canada. We do not focus only on the national capital region. We try to hire people from all over the country with expertise in different areas. We

National Defence committee  Thank you for your question. To my knowledge, we don't have any contracts with that firm. I can send you more information in writing after the meeting, if you'd like. As far as the security of contracts is concerned, each department is responsible for safeguarding its data. Our

National Defence committee  As far as I know, we don't have contracts with other firms. Again, I'd be happy to follow up in writing.