National Defence committee  It absolutely does. Defence manufacturing is critical to the defence infrastructure, and if you can poison those processes, you can hurt it. Furthermore, you can steal secrets. Stealing secrets is a big one. There's a lot to be gained there, and it will be gained for a long time.

National Defence committee  There is a vast raft of strategies and technologies that are needed. One of the things to understand is that you really have to build a security fortress, and any way in is a way in, so you have to look for complete comprehensive coverage, while the attacker just needs to find on

National Defence committee  Arguably, it's already too late, in that there's an attack called “harvest and decrypt”, which means that if someone gets inside your system, they can grab blobs of encrypted data and just store them, and then at some time in the future, when they have a quantum computer, they ca

National Defence committee  Yes, the human being is always a weak link in every digital system. It's very easy to build mathematically pure cryptographic solutions that can't be defeated. It's much harder to teach people not to fall for tricks. We call this social engineering. It has been going on since bef

National Defence committee  There is a very robust private sector that has a lot of activity in terms of industry standards bodies and co-operative organizations. Again, I referred to the post-quantum cryptography as a great example of this. People around the globe came together to build a new architecture

National Defence committee  That is a slightly different question. Digital certificates are foundational to every digital process we have, so Canadian citizens depend on them whether they know it or not. If your question is whether the country should demand digital ID, as is done in a lot of European coun

National Defence committee  Good morning. I thank the members of the committee for the opportunity to appear before you today. My name is Tim Callan and I am the chief experience officer and chief compliance officer at Sectigo, which is a global leader in solutions for digital identity, public key infrast