Introduction to Information and Cyber Security Challenges

Computers and information systems are a fundamental part of Canadian life. Day to day activities, commerce, and statecraft have gone digital. The associated information technology underpins nearly all aspects of today’s society. It enables much of our commercial and industrial activity, supports our military and national security operations and is essential to everyday social activities.

A vast amount of data is constantly in motion and an astronomical quantity is being stored in cyberspace. Furthermore, owing to market incentives, innovation in functionality has outpaced innovation in security and neither the public nor the private sector has been successful at fully implementing existing best practices. The potential for malicious activity within cyberspace is endless.

This course will explore the digitized world (the good, the bad and the ugly) in the Canadian context with a view to assessing the breadth and scope of the cyber reality within Canada and the policy challenges it poses with emphasis on the Federal Government. You will be able to identify security gaps that cross policy files, and develop integrated policies to anticipate and respond to cyber threats.

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  • Understanding the breadth and scope of the Digitized World

  • Identifying the Canadian Reality

  • Learning about the current cyber threats to Canada, including Cyberterrorism, Cyberespionage, Cybercrime and Cyberwar, and what measures we are taking to mitigate them

  • Examining the role of the Nation State in Internet Governance

  • Analyzing the privacy/security conundrum with respect to counterterrorism in the Digital Age

  • Contextualizing the Cyber World within National and International Law

  • Public Service directors, managers and mid-level program and policy public servants who need to better understand the policy challenges that cyberspace presents to governments
  • Federal, Provincial/Territorial, and Municipal public service employees
  • Members of the Canadian Forces and DND employees

Dave McMahon has an honours degree in computer engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada and 35 years experience in defence, security and intelligence.  Dave was a CSO, COO to defence, telecommunications and intelligence organizations, co-chair or the Interdepartmental Committee on Information Warfare, expert witness to the Senate and special advisor to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and intelligence oversight and review. Dave is currently the Chair of the CADSI cyber council, and the CEO of Clairvoyance Cyber Corp.

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Computers and information systems are a fundamental part of Canadian life. Day to day activities, commerce, and statecraft have gone digital. The associated information technology underpins nearly all aspects of today’s society. It enables much of our commercial and industrial activity, supports our military and national security operations and is essential to everyday social activities.

A vast amount of data is constantly in motion and an astronomical quantity is being stored in cyberspace. Furthermore, owing to market incentives, innovation in functionality has outpaced innovation in security and neither the public nor the private sector has been successful at fully implementing existing best practices. The potential for malicious activity within cyberspace is endless.

This course will explore the digitized world (the good, the bad and the ugly) in the Canadian context with a view to assessing the breadth and scope of the cyber reality within Canada and the policy challenges it poses with emphasis on the Federal Government. You will be able to identify security gaps that cross policy files, and develop integrated policies to anticipate and respond to cyber threats.

Title: 

Introduction to Information and Cyber Security Challenges

Course Code: 

160

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Dave McMahon has an honours degree in computer engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada and 35 years experience in defence, security and intelligence.  Dave was a CSO, COO to defence, telecommunications and intelligence organizations, co-chair or the Interdepartmental Committee on Information Warfare, expert witness to the Senate and special advisor to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and intelligence oversight and review. Dave is currently the Chair of the CADSI cyber council, and the CEO of Clairvoyance Cyber Corp.

Audience: 

Public Service directors, managers and mid-level program and policy public servants who need to better understand the policy challenges that cyberspace presents to governments
Federal, Provincial/Territorial, and Municipal public service employees
Members of the Canadian Forces and DND employees

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Introduction to Information and Cyber Security Challenges (Online Session)
September 27, 28, 29, 30, 2021
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