Action Plan 2010 -2015 for Canada’s Cyber Securit y Strategy Introduction Information technology is highly integrated into our everyday lives. As a society, we have gone digital. We play, learn, socialize, communicate, and do business online. While cyberspace brings significant benefi ts, our ever increasing reliance on it is creating new and significant vulnerabilities. In line with the Government of Canada’s (the Government) commitment to keep the nation safe, secure, and prosperous, we launched Canada’s Cyber Security Strategy (the Strategy) on October 3, 2010. The Strategy is designed to guide the Government’s efforts to make cyberspace more secure for all Canadians. The Strategy is composed of three pillars: Securing Government systems Partnering to secure vital cyber systems outside the federal Government Helping Canadians to be secure online This document, the Action Plan 2010-2015 for Canada’s Cyber Security Strategy (the Action Plan), outlines the Government’s plan to implement the Strategy and meet our ultimate goal of securing our cyberspace for the benefit of Canadians and our economy. Substantial progress has been made to date with respect to the implementation of the Strategy. The Government has already completed many activities, for example: In 2011, the Government launched Shared Services Canada (SSC) to streamline the way we manage federal IT telecommunications, data centres, and email. The consolidation under SSC is making our information technology infrastructure more secure. In 2011, the Government clarified the roles and mandates for the Communications Security Establishment Canada and the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre (CCIRC), embedded at Public Safety Canada (PS), to improve Canada’s ability to identify, prevent, and mitigate cyber security incidents. In 2011, the Government launched GetCyberSafe, our national public awareness campaign on cyber security that provides Canadians with the information they need to keep themselves and their families safe online. 1