{"id":685,"date":"2024-11-07T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T20:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cctx.ca\/?page_id=685"},"modified":"2025-02-03T09:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:48:40","slug":"faq","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cctx.ca\/fr\/faq\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange.<\/p> <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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The CCTX is a private sector, not-for-profit, cross-sector and membership-funded cyber threat sharing hub and collaboration organization that was launched in December 2015. The Board of Directors comprises senior cyber security leaders from the largest corporations in Canada, and is supported by government and academia. Membership in the CCTX is available to Canadian businesses and organizations legally registered to conduct business in Canada.<\/p> <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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The CCTX provides a current, focused view of cyber events directly impacting Canadian business, along with mitigation options and tools to combat identified threats. By aggregating data on threats, vulnerabilities and risks, and analyzing this information to produce pertinent, timely and actionable intelligence, the CCTX adds value that it shares with members. The CCTX is a forum for exchanging best practices, techniques and insights.<\/p> <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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The CCTX is member-driven and governed by a Board of Directors. Each Director serves a two-year term and is elected by Members. Day-to-day management of the CCTX is the responsibility of the Executive Director, who is appointed by and reports to the Board. The CCTX\u2019s business applications, infrastructure and training and logistical support services are provided by a growing team, accountable to the Executive Director.<\/p> <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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The CCTX provides a cross sector, exclusively Canadian perspective. Participation spanning diverse sectors ensures a rich exchange of information and best practices. Subscribers have the opportunity to engage with customers and suppliers to improve cyber resilience. Many other information sharing analysis centres have a sector-specific domestic and international focus. CCTX information and analysis\u2014which is based on public and private sector inputs of real cyber events affecting Canadian business\u2014is not diluted by international information that is not pertinent to Canada. At the same time, the CCTX operates with a global view of the cyber threat environment.<\/p> <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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By participating in CCTX cyber threat intelligence and collaboration forums, members will be better prepared to mitigate or eliminate new and evolving cyber threats. They will be stronger not only as individual organizations, but collectively. Today, the private and public sectors do not have a consolidated view of cyber threats impacting the nation. The CCTX aims to meet this need.<\/p> <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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The CCTX provides two significant benefits:<\/p>

  1. Members receive actionable cyber threat intelligence from the Threat Intelligence portal and various reports. This intelligence is based on input from all sectors of the economy. Cyber attackers are sharing their attack techniques across sectors, and CCTX Subscribers are informed about all of these techniques. The contextually-rich data that members receive improves their decision making.<\/li>
  2. Through CCTX communities, experts from member companies interact with other professionals to solve their cyber problems. This sharing can focus on a single issue, an attack campaign or the latest threats. Best practices, techniques, and insights from a diverse community of professionals are exchanged.<\/li><\/ol> <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n
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    The CCTX is open to all Canadian businesses and organizations legally registered to conduct business in Canada. See more information here.<\/a><\/p> <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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    The CCTX is open to all companies of all sizes and from all sectors across Canada. Organizations interested in joining the CCTX should check out our Membership Benefits<\/a> and contact us for more information at: info@cctx.ca <\/a>.<\/p> <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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    CCTX members gain a focused perspective on cyber threats that could impact their business. They receive advanced mitigation information about cyber events in other business sectors that may migrate to their organization or sector. They collaborate with other cyber security experts in sharing best practices, techniques, and insights. Since cybercrime is global, CCTX members will be doing their part to help protect Canada from cybercrime that is undermining business.<\/p>

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    The CCTX offers three levels of service to meet the needs of Canadian business of all sizes and means \u2013 Member, Associate and Affiliate. Member services provide a comprehensive set of information and participation options to meet the needs of large businesses with more than 5,000 employees. For smaller businesses, five levels of Associate services are available. Business associations are invited to participate as CCTX Affiliates at no cost.<\/p>

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    Access is restricted to authorized individuals from each CCTX member organization. No public access is permitted.<\/p> <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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    Privacy is critical to the success of the CCTX. By providing solutions and services that incorporate internationally recognized Privacy by Design principles, developed by Dr. Ann Cavoukian, the CCTX will address privacy concerns head on. It will routinely monitor the effectiveness of privacy controls and will use a third party to audit operations and validate that privacy is being protected.<\/p> <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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