Open AccessCanadian Supercomputer Threat Assessment and Potential Responses
Author(s) -
) Casis
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of intelligence, conflict and warfare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2561-8229
DOI - 10.21810/jicw.v2i1.955
Subject(s) - event (particle physics) , key (lock) , espionage , intellectual property , china , national security , resource (disambiguation) , political science , computer security , history , operations research , engineering , law , computer science , computer network , physics , quantum mechanics
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).