The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre), a part of the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE), released voluntary guidelines designed to further protect essential services for people in Canada and enhance cyber security resilience overall. The Cyber Security Readiness Goals (CRGs) resource offers a toolkit with 36 cross-sector cyber security practices that build on available advice and guidance. The CRGs list important steps organizations can take toward goals that will improve their cyber security posture in the face of increasingly complex cyber security threats.
“The CRGs have been developed in response to the growing susceptibility of critical infrastructure (CI) to cyber threats,” according to Rajiv Gupta, head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security. “The objective of these cross-sector goals is to enhance cyber security and minimize potential risks to society, public safety, and the overall stability of the Canadian economy. Canada’s CI faces an enormous challenge to be resilient against cyber threats.”
Gupta identified that helping Canada become more resilient is key to the role of the Cyber Centre as Canada’s…
