Communications Security Establishment Canada

Cyber security guidance

Cyber security guidance

Cyber security guidance

This report is an unclassified summary of CSE’s activities from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023.

"Cloud computing has the potential to provide your organization with flexible, on-demand, scalable and self-service IT services. To benefit from cloud computing, your organization must ensure that security risks are properly managed, cloud specific security considerations are addressed, and...

This document introduces cyber security best practices that your organization should integrate into the design and maintenance of its website. In Section 2, we include a checklist of key measures that your IT decision makers and web development team managers can implement to improve the security...

This document provides guidance on cyber security considerations required to securely design, deploy, and operate electronic poll book systems. The document highlights traditional poll book functions and discusses new services that can be integrated to support modern elections. It also provides...

This document discusses common social media threats and recommends security and privacy protection measures that your organization can implement to safeguard users, processes, and technologies involved in creating and publishing posts online.

This cyber threat bulletin provides an update to Canadians about the threat from ransomware in Canada and how we expect that threat to evolve over the next year.

Table of contents Introduction The digital dransformation of OT OT cybersecurity vs. IT cybersecurity OT exposure in Canada: A snapshot The OT of the future: Cyber-physical systems The role of OT in critical infrastructure The cyber threat to OT Direct vs indirect...

The information provided in this document is intended to inform and assist organizations with drawing down the risks, reducing impacts, and taking preventative actions associated with ransomware attacks. You can use the considerations below to articulate your business and security requirements...

The intent of this guide is not to recommend any schools or programs, but to provide a listing of available programs that may help advance an individual’s career in the field of cyber security.

This document provides web application and system administrators with security recommendations to protect web application systems against credential stuffing attacks.

This document highlights the cyber threats facing individuals and organizations in Canada. It provides an update to the National Cyber Threat Assessment 2018 (NCTA 2018) and the National Cyber Threat Assessment 2020 (NCTA 2020), with analysis of the interim years and forecasts until 2024. We...

This document provides an update to the 2017 Cyber threats to Canada’s democratic process reports and 2019 Cyber threats to Canada’s democratic process reports released by CSE. Its purpose is to inform Canadians about cyber threats to the democratic process.

The guide provides information about many of the certifications available for prospective students and cyber security professionals. The intent is not to recommend any certification body or certification in particular, but to provide a listing of some of the different certifications that may help...

On this page Types of careers Who is hiring? Career pathways Cyber security education

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) co-authored this publication to provide awareness on the identification, reporting, and mitigation of cybercrimes.

This document describes how your organization can use tokenization to reduce the residual risks incurred when using cloud based services to transmit, process, or store sensitive information (i.e. information that requires protection against unauthorized disclosure). When using cloud-based...

The effects of misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (MDM) cost the global economy billions of dollars each year. Often known colloquially as “fake news”, MDM are damaging to public trust in institutions and, during elections, may even pose a threat to democracy itself. MDM has...