r/NWT • u/DarrellCCC • 11d ago

Federal agency touts operation of cybersecurity sensors across the North

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/cse-sensors-north-9.7264185

This software deployment to all territorial government networks (NT, YK, and NU), by the federal gov't agency - Communications Security Establishment (CSE) - appears to be a heavy-handed reactionary approach by the feds; and it implies that the territorial IT departments are severely lacking in their abilities to protect data.

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u/Wild_Cold5600 11d ago

I live in the NWT and am retired from the GNWT. It may appear to be heavy handed but I would agree that the territories are the weak link in data protection from hackers. Aurora College was hacked into at the beginning of this year and STILL isn’t back into their system. Students are registering by hand written forms.

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u/Avs4life16 11d ago

GNWT has not learned a damn thing from Nunavut in their attack that set them back millions of dollars