Status report on transformational and major Crown projects – Secure Cloud Enablement and Defence

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Project name	Secure Cloud Enablement and Defence (SCED)
Description	Implement Government of Canada (GC) Trusted Interconnection Points on the periphery of the GC network for the secured exchange of data with external organizations. A specialized perimeter will establish a network security zone with one or more private connections to reduce exposure to cyber threats and improve performance and reliability between the GC and external partners, and Cloud Service Providers (CSP) for Secure Cloud Enablement. Dedicated connections to one or more CSPs will enable secured management, monitoring and access of departmental and interdepartmental unclassified and Protected B with Medium Integrity and Medium Availability (PBMM) off-premise cloud services (Software as a Service / Infrastructure as a Service / Platform as a Service (SaaS/IaaS/PaaS)).
Project outcomes	The security posture of GC services and assets as they are deployed in the public cloud and integrated with on-premise GC enterprise systems will be maintained through: Full visibility and monitoring of GC cloud environments through integration into current monitoring and management services for the GC enterprise provided by the SOC A reduced attack surface by consolidating cloud perimeters Secure access from GC network to public cloud Central cloud-enabled data loss prevention policies
Industrial benefits	SCED will provide security and visibility services for communications with Government of Canada cloud workloads, allowing for Government of Canada departments to be more agile in providing services to the Canadian public and businesses through leveraging public cloud services
Sponsoring department	Shared Services Canada
Contracting authority	Shared Services Canada
Participating departments	Shared Services Canada
Prime contractor	N/A
Major subcontractors	N/A
Project phase	Phase 3 – Planning
Major milestones	Phase 1 – Idea Generation – March 2018 Phase 2 – Initiation – February 2019 Phase 3 – Planning – December 2019 Phase 4 – Operational Readiness – June 2020 Phase 5 – Deployment – March 2023 Phase 6 – Closeout – October 2023
Progress report and explanation of variances	The SCED project was recently approved to move into the planning phase The SCED project is to be completed by October 2023

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Date modified:: 2023-10-31