Canada’s ability to attract and retain international talent is crucial to creating business success

For Canada to be a global cybersecurity leader, and one of the most secure and innovative nations on the planet, in close collaboration with industry, government policy needs to move at a faster pace. Only this will allow Canada to keep up with both the challenges and opportunities before us—and the speed at which they develop and unfold.

Increased spending in the 2002 federal budget on federal government cybersecurity infrastructure was a useful step, but Ottawa needs to think more boldly and beyond Canada’s borders, according to Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia, the senior director of digital economy, technology and innovation at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY ULRIKE BAHR-GEDALIA

October 17, 2022

Canada’s small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face an average of 11 cyber attacks per device daily, but nearly half have made no investment in cybersecurity protection. These SMBs, along with municipalities, Indigenous communities, health-care providers, and critical infrastructure providers ...

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