Canada Falling Behind on Critical Infrastructure Cyber Security
After 15 years and nearly $1 billion in spending, Canada’s cyber security efforts to protect critical infrastructure such as the country’s power grid, banking and telephone systems, as well as the government’s own networks, suffer from a lack of direction and might not be keeping up with the current threats, according to Canada’s auditor general.
According to an article from the Vancouver Sun, the lack of detail about how much money has gone to cyber security, as well as what Canadians have received in return, is stemming from weaknesses in the government’s cyber security policy: “there is a strategy to secure networks, but no action plan to identify who is supposed to do what,” the Sun reports.