CSIS hopes to start sharing intel on cyber threats with businesses in new year

Canada’s spy agency aims to begin sharing intelligence next year about pervasive foreign threats with entities outside the federal government – such as companies, universities, public utilities, Indigenous governments and diaspora groups – after a landmark bill passed this summer, a top official told a security summit in Vancouver.René Ouellette, a leader with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said during Tuesday’s closing panel of the Vancouver International Security Summit that his agency initially estimated it would take Parliament about a year to pass a bill ushering in this “sea change” in its approach to sharing secret information. CSIS had planned on using that year to craft new protocols.But, he noted, Bill C-70′s rapid progress into law in June has kickstarted the effort to “work on implementation and build up the policy architecture beneath it,” which CSIS is now doing.