Public Safety Canada Releases New Guide On Cybersecurity For Critical Infrastructures

Public Safety Canada (Public Safety) recently released Enhancing Canada's Critical Infrastructure Resilience to Insider Risk, a guide designed to assist Canadian organizations in developing effective programs to mitigate and respond to security threats from insiders (Guide).

Critical infrastructure is broadly defined as "processes, systems, facilities, technologies, networks, assets and services essential to the health, safety, security or economic well-being of Canadians and the effective functioning of government." Public Safety's focus, in recent years, has been on the potential disruption of critical infrastructures that could result in loss of life, adverse economic effects and significant harm to public confidence.