Communications Security Establishment - Estimates

Supplementary Estimates (A)

The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) plays a critical role in protecting Canada's security, while safeguarding Canadians' rights.
CSE provides critical foreign intelligence to help inform the Government of Canada's decision making and protect national security.
Its sophisticated cyber and technical expertise also helps identify, prepare for and defend against threats to Canada's systems and networks.
Funding included in Supplementary Estimates (A) will help CSE implement important initiatives under the National Cyber Security Strategy to enhance Canada's resilience to cyber threats.
This includes funding for the fit-up of a facility for the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, a unified source of expert advice and guidance on cyber security issues for Canada and Canadians.

CSE's 2019-20 Supplementary Estimates (A) include in-year funding of $20.4M for two items.
The first item is $11.0M in funding for the fit-up of the new facility for the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security building in Ottawa.
The second item is $9.4M in funding to implement three CSE initiatives in the National Cyber Security Strategy.

CSE's 2019-20 Supplementary Estimates (A) include $11.0M in funding for the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre).
- The $11.0M is from a $23.0M reprofile of 2018-19 Cyber Centre funding, which was the result of construction challenges and delays.
- In 2019-20, the fit-up timelines on the new Cyber Centre facility in Ottawa have shifted outward again due to additional challenges with construction, including labour disruptions. As a result of these delays, CSE is only requesting $11.0M of the $23.0 reprofiled funding, which is intended for the IT/furniture fit-up and construction expenditures that were delayed in 2018-19.
- CSE will submit another reprofile to transfer the balance of $12.0M into 2020-21.
A new facility for the Cyber Centre is needed to offer the shared use of an unclassified, multi-purpose space for government, private industry and academia.

CSE's 2019-20 Supplementary Estimates (A) also includes $9.4M in funding to implement the new National Cyber Security Strategy.
This funding is a result of the Budget 2018 Treasury Board Submission "Ensuring Security and Prosperity in the Digital Age".
Specifically, the $9.4M will provide funding for this fiscal year for three CSE initiatives under the Cyber Strategy:
- Improved Integrated Threat Assessments: this funding will help ensure secure and resilient Canadian cyber systems by improving the Cyber Centre's threat assessments.
- Expanding Advice and Guidance to the Finance and Energy Sectors: this funding will support the role of the Cyber Centre in providing advice and guidance to critical infrastructure owners and operators on how to prevent and address cyber attacks.
- Interim Quantum Safe Capability (IQSC): this project will ensure that the confidentiality of the Government of Canada's classified cryptographic devices are protected against future attacks by quantum computing.

Version 1; 2019-12-03
Source: CSE QP Card, 2019-12-03; National Cyber Security Strategy