Think Before You Click! New Cyberthreat Assessment Published

Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity provides new analysis and forecasts on threats to Canadians

In November 2020 the Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity ("Cyber Centre") issued its second National Cyberthreat Assessment document (the "Report"), which assesses the most pressing threats to cybersecurity in Canada today. The document updates the National Cyberthreat Assessment 2018 (NCTA 2018), analysing the interim years and providing forecasts until 2022, and its analysis of trends and predictions makes for interesting if rather grim reading.

The Report noted that as technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of Things (IoT), the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and cloud computing play an increasingly critical role in personal, commercial and industrial activities in Canada, such growing reliance on online activities has increased the susceptibility to threat activity. Cybercriminals motivated by financial gain remain the number 1 threat to