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Learn MoreFrom its goals and objectives to its guiding principles for prioritizing initiatives and delivering them to individual organizations, each aspect of this program has been guided and defined through extensive consultations and contributions from cybersecurity experts and leaders from across Canada’s research and education community.
To collaboratively develop an approach to enhancing cybersecurity capabilities (tools, people, processes) across the sector, a working group was formed, consisting of institutional Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), representatives from Canada’s NREN, and leaders from our partner organizations, including CUCCIO and CanSSOC.
As a result of this community engagement, a strategic approach emerged to guide how Canada’s R&E sector would be engaged to collaborate on cybersecurity:
They also defined the program’s strategic objectives for advancing Canada’s cybersecurity capabilities:
higher education and digital research infrastructure (DRI) ecosystem partners in developing a national approach to cybersecurity
capabilities by funding deployment of technologies and support for talent development in a co-ordinated fashion across the ecosystem
the Canadian cybersecurity ecosystem through support for technology and service innovation
This approach was then validated with the broader community through a series of consultations to ensure that the diverse perspectives of stakeholders from across the R&E sector were captured.
Community engagement and input drive all elements of this program – most importantly, its governance.
The Cybersecurity Advisory Committee (CAC) and its standing committees represent Canada’s research and education institutions and supporting organizations, and advocate for the priorities, realities, and challenges of the sector. The standing committees advise and inform the CAC, which recommends priority initiatives for funding to CANARIE.
The Working Group’s output led to the definition of the overall goals. We are committed to achieving on these goals to drive continual investments that will deliver on the sector’s cybersecurity needs.
