Protecting Canada and improving cyber defence: three challenges

Canada's cybersecurity posture faces three main challenges: ensuring a whole of government approach, doing away with Cold War mentalities, and a threat environment with low barriers to entry.

Canada addresses cyber threats through the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), pictured, including the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, and the Department of National Defence/Canadian Armed Forces. The CAF’s main cyber unit is the Canadian Forces Network Operations Centre, writes Kristen Csenkey.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY KRISTEN CSENKEY

May 24, 2021

Everyone wants a piece of cyber—everyone wants to talk about it, to make it part of their mandate, add it as a consideration, or make it a focus. Cyber can be tricky to define; it can be a national security problem, a law enforcement focus, a defence challenge, and ...

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