Nathasha (Sasha) Hellberg - COUNTERMEASURE 2018

A State of the Union on the Canadian Cyber Threat Landscape

Would you direct air traffic without knowing what else is in the sky? Would you give medical advice without knowing the symptoms? Would you give driving instructions without knowing what is down the road? As a security professional, can you honestly say you know the Canadian landscape of threats?

As Canadian Threat Analysts, one challenge that we face is there are very few threat reports that focus on Canada. It’s been our mission to protect Canadians in Cyberspace, and the very things that make Canada great are the things that make our threat landscape distinct from others. However, how can we tackle the problem if we don’t accurately know what we are dealing with?

We’ll discuss research conducted over the last year on Canadian malware trends, attackers, Internet exposures, and Deepweb components. We’ll map out where Canada is in terms of the current state of cyber security, and then discuss what can be done next.