The new head of Canada’s cybersecurity centre says his first months on the job have been a “dizzying” experience of responding to one major incident after another, including a cyberattack from a hostile state against a federal government department in recent months.
“The last eight months have been somewhat a dizzying experience of a number of cyber incidents and managing all these cyber incidents,” Sami Khoury, who was named head of the Communications Security Establishment’s (CSE) Canadian Centre for Cyber Security last August, told the audience at the Cyber UK conference Wednesday.
Shortly after, CSE scrambled to help cyber defenders address a major vulnerability, known as Log4j, in a nearly ubiquitous software library that hackers quickly tried to abuse. At the time, it was qualified as of the single most critical vulnerabilities in the last decade.
At the same time, Khoury said CSE was trying to handle “a number” of ransomware incidents, which he has frequently qualified as one of the biggest cyber threats Canada faces right now.
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