The 2025 G7 Summit hosted in Kananaskis, Alberta later this week will bring together G7 and guest country leaders and senior officials. In the lead up to the Summit and throughout the week, the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE) and its Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) are advising all Canadian organizations to adopt a heightened state of cyber vigilance.
Major international events involving high-profile dignitaries often attract increased attention from malicious cyber actors. It is not uncommon to observe a rise in disruptive cyber activities including website defacements, phishing attempts using the event as a theme, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks targeting organizations involved in the event. Organizations—particularly those providing direct support for the event; federal, provincial and municipal governments; and critical infrastructure owners and operators—are urged to:
- Review and implement the Cyber Centre’s guidance on:
- Consult top 10 IT security actions to protect Internet-connected networks and information paying specific attention to the following topics:
- consolidate, monitor and defend Internet gateways
- isolate web-facing applications
We work closely with partners across the Government of Canada, including the Treasury Board Secretariat – Office of the Chief Information Officer, Shared Services Canada, Global Affairs Canada, Public Safety Canada, CSIS, and the RCMP to monitor, detect, and respond to potential threats.
Our Cyber Centre shares valuable cyber threat information throughout the year with Canadian critical infrastructure and government partners via protected channels. We also actively monitor the cyber threat environment in Canada and globally. We encourage any Canadian organizations who believe they may have been targeted by cyber threat activity to report any cyber incidents to the Cyber Centre.