Research
Four streams of open-source research on the threats facing Canada.
The Centre’s research programme runs across four connected streams. All of it is open-source: analysis and situational awareness drawn from publicly accessible material, organised so it can inform advice to the Government of Canada and the programme for Maple Shield.
The Centre’s analysis is organised across six security domains, three technological and three non-technological, each recognised within Government of Canada security policy. They are the terrain on which adversaries operate, not adversarial categories in themselves.
How the principle of sovereignty holds when territory, data, and jurisdiction no longer coincide, worked through the technological, digital, and data layers, with data sovereignty advanced as an emerging norm of international law.
Quantum machines will one day break the cryptography that protects Canadian systems, and traffic captured today can be held until they do. The Centre follows the migration to quantum-resistant cryptography and the timelines that decide when Canada must act.
The Global Commission on Responsible AI in the Military Domain sets out how states should govern the military use of artificial intelligence. The Centre followed its work at first hand, through a chief advisor who served among its commissioners.
Working resources drawn from the research programme: monitoring of active conflicts and criminal threats, curated knowledge libraries, and reference material for practitioners. Each is reached from the Tools menu above.