The Digitization of National Security: 32 / Canadian Government Executive // WINTER 2025 BY JEFFREY ROY GOVERNING DIGITALLY Transparency, Engagement & Inclusion The world of national security is not what it once was. Instead of covert agents that sought to gather intelligence mainly from paper and people, governments today are awash in data generated by a myriad of online actors and automated activities. The Government of Canada alone estimates that it faces more than one billion threats online daily: even as most are harmless, many are not and all it takes is one embedded piece of code within a device or database to enable cascading layers of damage.
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