Canadian Security Showcase

Canada's security environment is under simultaneous pressure from threats to borders, critical infrastructure, and democratic institutions, while the federal government is being asked to deliver more at speed. This session will give you the shared operating picture for 2026 and the priority decisions you need to make in the next 12 to 18 months to strengthen national resilience across physical and digital domains.

• Align on national priorities and what they mean for operational focus across public safety, intelligence, border, and cyber
• Ground your planning in Public Safety Canada's 2026–27 priorities: border integrity, threat detection, law enforcement capability, and emergency management
• Connect security decisions to sovereignty measures in the Spring Economic Update, including strengthening domestic capability in critical sectors
• Strengthen democratic resilience by understanding the latest signals on foreign interference and influence-transparency measures
• Accelerate collaboration without duplication by clarifying where coordination is essential vs where agencies should act independently

Canada’s public safety environment is increasingly shaped by blended threats across cybercrime, online fraud, foreign interference, and border-enabled organized crime. This session will share the RCMP’s operational perspective on what readiness looks like in 2026: detecting risks earlier, disrupting threats faster, and responding under pressure through clear escalation pathways, trusted information-sharing, and cross-jurisdiction collaboration.

• Understand how complex threats are converging across mandates
• Clarify what practical readiness means for detection, disruption, and response
• Strengthen collaboration and information-sharing across jurisdictions
• Identify the capabilities and escalation pathways agencies should prioritize in 2026

Threat actors are moving faster, blending tactics across physical and digital domains, and exploiting seams between mandates. This moderated plenary stress-tests what readiness actually means in 2026—and focuses on the practical operating model leaders need to collaborate without duplication or compromise.

• Identify the fastest-moving risk areas across people, process, technology, and geopolitics and what they mean for your mandate
• Understand what new authorities and legislative changes mean for operational readiness and cross-mandate coordination in practice
• Align on the shared threat set Public Safety Canada is prioritizing: critical infrastructure, espionage, terrorism, organized crime, and foreign interference
• Define readiness in measurable terms: capabilities, thresholds, and response expectations your teams can execute against
• Agree on collaboration patterns that work, including roles, decision rights, and escalation paths, and identify where they are currently breaking down

Severe cyber incidents test more than technical response — they test executive decision-making, coordination, continuity, and trust under pressure. This session will examine what turns an incident into a “severe” event, how escalation is initiated, and how initiatives like CIREN and the Federal Cyber Incident Response Plan are shaping Canada’s approach to coordinated response across critical infrastructure and high-consequence environments.

• Understand what distinguishes a severe incident and when escalation should begin
• Clarify the executive decision points that matter most: containment, continuity, disclosure, and recovery
• Explore how CIREN and the Federal Cyber Incident Response Plan support coordinated response
• Identify recovery lessons and coordination patterns that build real readiness across critical infrastructure

Foreign actors are targeting Canadian communities, democratic processes, and public institutions faster than traditional monitoring approaches can track. This session will demonstrate how purpose-built intelligence and threat detection capabilities close the gap between signal and response, so agencies can act decisively when foreign interference intersects with community safety and democratic integrity.

• Apply AI-driven open-source intelligence and real-time threat monitoring to surface foreign influence activity across digital, physical, and social domains
• Understand how to operationalize FITAA obligations with automated monitoring workflows that reduce manual effort and accelerate escalation
• Integrate intelligence platforms to support coordinated response across CSIS, RCMP, and Public Safety Canada without creating new data silos
• Build proportionate, auditable response frameworks that act on threat signals while protecting civil liberties and community trust

Canada's critical infrastructure owners are navigating a threat environment that is simultaneously physical and digital, and the gap between policy frameworks and operational reality is where the exposure lives. This session will examine how sector operators are working with government to assess risk, close capability gaps, and build the resilience that national security depends on.

• Assess the real risk picture facing Canada's critical infrastructure sectors: where physical and cyber threats converge and what that means for operators and government partners alike
• Strengthen the government-to-operator relationship by understanding what effective information sharing, regulatory expectations, and joint response look like in practice
• Apply lessons from recent incidents to identify the most common failure points in critical infrastructure protection programs before they become national security events
• Build a sector-specific resilience baseline that satisfies both operational continuity requirements and the national security obligations that flow from being designated critical infrastructure

Pick your topic. Pull up a seat and join a 60-minute interactive discussion with your government peers. Facilitated by an industry expert, you'll share challenges and swap practical approaches within the topic area. Take this opportunity to benchmark what good looks like, pressure-test ideas, and workshop next steps together.

Roundtable One
Strengthening Canada’s National Security with Cross-Domain Security
Facilitated by Peter Whittaker, Director, Special Projects, Sphyrna Security 

Roundtable Two
Building Secure-by-Design Government Software
Facilitated by Norbert Jocz, Sales Lead for Public Sector, Security Compass

Roundtable Three
Identity-Centric Security in an Era of Evolving Threats
Facilitated by Akash Shah, VP of Project/Programs & Marc Al-Awadeh, Director of Sales, Idemia Public Security, IDEMIA

Roundtable Four
Reducing Cyber Risk Across Canada’s Public Safety Ecosystem
Facilitated by Jeremy Gudgel, Security Technology and Strategy Director, Akamai

Roundtable Five
Defending What You Can't Easily Change: Managing Cyber Risk in Legacy and Critical Systems
Facilitated by Eric Hoffman, the Director of Public Sector, VulnCheck

Public safety, cyber, and high-volume public service organizations are under pressure to detect cybercrime, fraud, account compromise, identity abuse, and digital threats earlier — and to turn those signals into coordinated action before harm escalates. But faster response depends on more than intelligence: it requires trusted access, secure applications, clear identity controls, and resilient information-sharing across sensitive systems. This session will explore how agencies can move from digital indicators to operational response while protecting the identities, accounts, data, platforms, and public-facing services that modern public safety and public trust depend on.

• Turn cybercrime, fraud, account-security, identity, and digital threat signals into faster operational decisions
• Strengthen information-sharing and escalation pathways across public safety, cyber, and service-delivery partners
• Protect sensitive systems, applications, APIs, identities, accounts, and data while enabling faster response
• Reduce risk from credential abuse, account takeover, bots, over-privileged access, third-party pathways, and unmanaged application exposure
• Build accountable digital operations that support disruption, investigation, privacy, auditability, and public trust