A recent news article from The Globe and Mail was passed along to me as an example of the type of security flaws the Canadian government faces and why it’s important that our department is adding curriculum on industrial cyber security to our Computer Crime program at BCIT:
“After foreign hackers launched a cyber attack on Treasury Board and Finance Canada in January 2011, it took officials more than a week to alert a federal office that’s in charge of spreading the word about the latest intelligence on cyber threats.”
As these flaws receive more scrutiny from politicians and the public, expect funding to increase in this area and for more of our students to be hired to combat attacks on critical Canadian infrastructure.