Canadian Centre for Cyber Security Resources

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (the Centre) is Canada's technical authority on cyber security. It provides advice, guidance, free services and support on cyber security for government, critical infrastructure, the private sector and the Canadian public. The Centre also has:

•        a portal to report cyber incidents
•        many publications on best practices and knowledge of cyber security
•        reports such as the National Cyber Threat Assessment 2023-2024, which highlights the cyber threats facing individuals and organizations in Canada

Support provided by the Centre to its Cyber Centre partners include the following:

•        education
•        threat intelligence
•        community building
•        advice and guidance
•        cyber defence services
•        incident handling support

The Centre provides the following free services:

•         Alerts, which provide time-sensitive information about:
•    a discovery of a zero-day vulnerability
•    ongoing malicious code
•    denial of service attack
•         Cyber Flashes, which provide time-sensitive information about high-impact cyber issues with actionable indicators of compromise before the indicators are publicly available. Indicators of compromise can help an organization determine if their network has been breached.
•         The National Cyber Threat Notification System which notifies Canadian organizations of possible:
•    misconfigured services
•    vulnerabilities
•    compromised infrastructure
•         Scorecards, which are personalized reports for critical infrastructure owners and operators, with data visualizations of malware and vulnerable service events occurring on their networks
•         Aventail, a Centre threat feed that shares trusted indicators of compromise at machine speed
•         Malware.cyber.gc.ca, which analyzes malicious files for your organization without installation and configuration. Automation of this tool is available by leveraging the application programming interface
•         Community Calls, which are bi-weekly calls to discuss vulnerabilities and cyber threats that the Centre is tracking

To register for any of the services provided by the Centre, please contact health-par-sante@cyber.gc.ca.