Canadian Supercomputer Threat Assessment and Potential Responses
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Briefing note assessing espionage and security threats to Compute Canada's national supercomputing infrastructure; object is the governance of Canadian research infrastructure, though it sits on the T2/T3 boundary as a policy briefing.
The briefing analyzes security risks and responses involving Canadian research supercomputing infrastructure.
Policy briefing on security threats to Canadian research supercomputers, relevant to the research ecosystem but not analytic metaresearch.
Abstract

 
 
 Four key events are addressed in this briefing note. Key event one is the announcement in April and May of 2017 with the launch of two supercomputers in Canada (Graham at University of Waterloo; Cedar at Simon Fraser University) and a third (Niagara at The University of Toronto) using Compute Canada’s Resources Allocation (Compute Canada, 2018a). Key event two is the announcement that Huawei Canada is building Graham’s operating system (Feldman, 2017). Key event three entails CSIS being warned by the US Senators (Rep. Sen Marco Rubio and Dem. Sen Mark Warner) about the possibility of China and Russia spying on Canada. Key event four, the United States has reportedly banned sales of Huawei products on US military bases (Bronskill, 2018; Collins, 2018).
 This briefing note is particularly relevant as Compute Canada is now preparing for 2019 resource allocation; there may be a raised/elevated security risk of economic espionage intellectual property theft and abusing education access privileges which need to be considered (SFU Innovates Staff, 2018).
 
 
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The record
- Venue
- The Journal of Intelligence Conflict and Warfare
- Topic
- Nuclear Issues and Defense
- Field
- Social Sciences
- Canadian institutions
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- Funders
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- Keywords
- Event (particle physics)Key (lock)EspionageIntellectual propertyChinaNational securityResource (disambiguation)Political scienceComputer securityHistoryOperations researchEngineeringLawComputer science
- Has abstract in OpenAlex
- yes