http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/07/tech-security.html



By Peter Nowak 

CBC News

October 7, 2008



A national cyber-security strategy that will seek to protect key 

infrastructure as well as Canadians' identities is on the way , an RCMP 

executive says.



Details of the strategy - a partnership between the public and private 

sectors - will emerge over the next few months, said David Black, 

manager of the RCMP's cyber infrastructure protection section. The plan 

is being put together by Public Safety Canada with input from 

telecommunications and technology companies such as Bell Canada Inc. and 

Microsoft Corp.



"There's a lot of discussion about what Canada needs to do about cyber 

security," he told an audience of cyber-security professionals at a 

conference in Toronto. "You should be hearing elements of that strategy 

emerging post-election."



Some details may emerge at a high-level security conference being hosted 

by the Conference Board of Canada in Gatineau, Que., in early November. 

A number of officials from Defence Canada, as well as Public Safety 

Minister Stockwell Day, are scheduled to speak at the event.



The plan is likely to address a number of the issues the RCMP considers 

priorities, including identity theft, the evolution of cyber crime for 

profit, the protection of critical cyber infrastructure and the 

convergence of technological and physical security.



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