Situational awareness

Since most emergencies occur at the local level, Regional Offices are the Department's representatives on the ground that provide situational awareness and operational support to the Government Operations Centre during any emergency or event of national interest.

Cyber security publications

The Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre (CCIRC) is responsible for monitoring threats and coordinating the national response to any cyber security incident. CCIRC produces cyber security publications.

Analytical publications

The Situational Awareness and Risk Assessment Division produces analytical products regarding emergency management information related to Canada's critical infrastructure.

Legend: IA = Incident analysis; TA = Threat analysis; IN = Information note

Incident analyses

Incident analyses (IA) communicate information about incidents that affected the Government of Canada, other sectors of Canada's critical infrastructure or critical infrastructure of another country for which Canada could benefit from the information.

• Ontario-U.S. Power Outage – Impacts on Critical Infrastructure
  30 August 2006 (IA06-002)
• The United Kingdom Foot and Mouth Disease Crisis – Impact on Critical Infrastructure
  26 May 2006 (IA06-001)
• Impact of September 2000 Fuel Price Protests on UK Critical Infrastructure
  25 January 2005 (IA05-001)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 "Slammer" Worm – Impact Paper
  14 March 2003 (IA03-001)
• The September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks – Critical Infrastructure Protection Lessons Learned
  27 September 2002 (IA02-001)

Threat analyses

Threat analyses (TA) communicate information about potential, imminent or actual threats affecting the Government of Canada or other sectors of Canada's critical infrastructure.

• Threats to Canada's Critical Infrastructure
  12 March 2003 (TA03-001)
• Geomagnetic Storms - Reducing the Threat to Critical Infrastructure in Canada
  25 April 2002 (TA02-001)
• Al-Qaida Cyber Capability
  20 December 2001 (TA01-001)

Information notes

Information notes (IN) draw attention to information related to significant threats, vulnerabilities or incidents, that has been released to the public by other organizations, or relevant issues and information in the public domain.

• SQL Injection Attacks
  23 June 2008 (IN08-002)
• Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities in SWF applications generated by various Shockwave Flash Authoring tools
  4 January 2008 (IN08-001)
• Microsoft Security Advisory (937696) Highlighting New Office Protection Methods
  25 May 2007 (IN07-001)
• SANS Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities Q2 2005
  25 July 2005 (IN05-002)
• Targeted Trojan E-mail Attacks
  16 June 2005 (IN05-001)
• SANS Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities for 2004
  8 October 2004 (IN04-003)
• Best Practices for Preventing Online Identity Theft
  23 August 2004 (IN04-002)
• General best practices for laptop security
  8 June 2004 (IN04-001)
• Severe Geomagnetic Storm Expected
  29 October 2003 (IN03-005)
• SANS Top Twenty Internet Security Vulnerabilities for 2003
  8 October 2003 (IN03-004)
• General Best Practices for Network Security and Survivability
  8 October 2003 (IN03-003)
• Impact of West Nile virus on Canada's health care infrastructure
  17 September 2003 (IN03-002)
• Securing VoIP
  19 June 2003 (IN03-001)
• NIPC / GSA / SANS Top Twenty Internet Security Vulnerabilities for 2002
  2 October 2002 (IN02-007)
• Release of U.S. National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
  18 September 2002 (IN02-006)
• Securing Publicly Available Information
  31 May 2002 (IN02-005)
• Terrorist Threat to U.S. Financial Institutions
  19 April 2002 (IN02-004)
• SNMPv1 Vulnerabilities
  15 February 2002 (IN02-003)
• Terrorist Interest in Water Supply and SCADA Systems
  30 January 2002 (IN02-002)
• Identifying Virus Hoaxes
  11 January 2002 (IN02-001)
• Government of Canada Web Site and Internet Domain Name Protocols
  10 October 2001 (IN01-006)
• Computer and Network Security Preparedness
  1 October 2001 (IN01-005)
• Current Cyber Activity Update
  12 September 2001 (IN01-004)
• W32/Magistr.b@MM
  5 September 2001 (IN01-003)
• W32/APost@MM Virus
  3 September 2001 (IN01-002)
• Microsoft IIS 5.0 Vulnerabiltity
  3 May 2001 (IN01-001)