Canada's SSC Flags Cyber Risks In Government IT Systems

Shared Services Canada (SSC) provides a ministerial briefing on the state of federal cybersecurity and IT modernization, highlighting a massive and growing threat landscape (blocking trillions of malicious attempts annually), collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, and defenses such as zero-trust architecture, AI-enhanced security tools, and Enterprise Command Centres. The report emphasizes supply-chain integrity reviews (83,000+ assessments), the need to onboard smaller departments to enterprise services, and procurement/vendor diversification to reduce systemic risk while noting legacy systems and AI-enabled adversaries as key challenges.