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Deep Fake, Twitter Hacked: Welcome to Disinformation on Steroids. An Interview with tech expert Branka Marijan
Q: The July Twitter hack has been confirmed as the largest in the social media company's 14-year history. It is also being called just the tip of a very large iceberg with vast security implications. What to you is most concerning about this attack from an electoral...
Interview: Former Ambassador to China David Mulroney talks Hong Kong, Huawei, Meng Wanzhou, and Canada’s next move
Q: What kind of calculations determined President Xi’s decision to impose the new security bill in Hong Kong and why is it being implemented now? A: I think it's the distraction of the pandemic. [China] is hoping to get away with this while the world is focused...
Executive Director’s Update
Dear members of the growing Conference of Defence Associations community, Already, a year has passed since I joined the Conference of Defence Associations Institute. It has been quite a ride. In a good way. Before I dive into all the things I'm excited...
INTERVIEW: Amb. Dennis Horak on Saudi Arabia / Canada relations
1) Ambassador Horak, you were sent back to Canada on a tweet. Is the medium the message? Tweets are not an effective tool of diplomacy. “Twitterplomacy” (as I have come to call it) is PR aimed at supporters or the already converted. By their very nature and limited...
Engaging Silent Enemies: NATO’s Anti-Submarine Warfare Challenge
Roger Hilton, GLOBSEC Security and Defence Fellow In the classic film The Hunt for Red October, Soviet Admiral Ramius addresses his crew prior to diving and declares, “They (the West) will tremble again at the sound of our silence”. The essence of the quote could not...
Quantum Supremacy Webinar
WEBINAR DETAILS July 10, 2020 - 10:00 EDT We'd like to thank IBM Canada for providing the tech support and online platform to host this international event. WHY ATTEND: Top American and Canadian experts will comment on the fast approaching national security challenges...
Free Webinar: All Five Eyes on 5G
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Looking towards CANSEC 2021
Col. Charles Davies (Retd) The Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI) announced on March 31st that its annual trade show in Ottawa, scheduled for May 27-28, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a necessary decision...
9 out of 10 Canadians believe the Canadian Armed Forces should help in the fight against COVID-19
A new survey conducted by the Conference of Defence Associations Institute and Ipsos Canada shows that 9 in 10 Canadians (88%) believe that the Canadian Armed Forces have a role to play in supporting civilian authorities manage and mitigate the COVID-19...
Walk the Talk: Time to Operationalize Canada’s Whole-of-Government Approach to Twenty-First Century Conflict
The 2008 Manley Report highlighted significant machinery of government obstacles to the effective conduct of the Afghanistan mission, and in particular the operations of the interdepartmental Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team (KPRT) which the Panel called “a...
Future of Canada’s Cybersecurity
*Image courtesy of itworldcanada.comBy Andriyha Soans Computer technology today is ubiquitous. In 2017, there was an estimated 3 billion hand held devices in circulation across the globe with a 50 per cent increase expected by 2020.[i] These...
CDA Institute Interview with Marcus Kolga: The Covid-19 Vaccine Hack, Russian Information Warfare & Cyber Resiliency
Q: There have been Russian hacking attempts aimed at US, British and Canadian COVID-19 vaccine research. How has Canada dealt with this and what do you recommend we do so we can protect intellectual property and national sovereignty against these intrusions? A: This...
