{"id":9228,"date":"2018-04-26T13:21:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=9228"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:20:10","slug":"cybersecurity-showcase-prime-minister-trudeau","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/cybersecurity-showcase-prime-minister-trudeau\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Cybersecurity Resource Showcased for Prime Minister Trudeau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau toured the Bayview Yards<\/a> technology and entrepreneurship centre on April 25, meeting with the people behind several of the startups and organizations based in the renovated heritage building, including Prof. Tony Bailetti and Dan Craigen of Carleton\u2019s Global Cybersecurity Resource<\/a> (GCR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prime Minister Trudeau arrives at Bayview Yards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had a chance to talk to the Prime Minister about all of the cybersecurity work that we\u2019re doing,\u201d said Bailetti, the director of Carleton\u2019s Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program, who is cross-appointed to the Sprott School of Business and the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cHe was very positive about Carleton\u2019s role in the entrepreneurship and innovation community, and very supportive of what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Trudeau was shown a prototype \u201ccanary,\u201d a sensor device that can be installed in a company\u2019s server room to detect intrusions, such as a malware attack.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A Local Cybersecurity Partnership with Global Implications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The device was developed by the GCR and put together onsite at Bayview Yards in the MadeMill<\/a> makerspace. More than a dozen Ottawa-area companies have joined a pilot to test the canary through a partnership with the Barrhaven Business Improvement Area, and others are poised to sign on to the trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Global Cybersecurity Resource and other Carleton representatives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have worked very closely with startups such as Crypto4A<\/a> to help them build their businesses,\u201d said Bailetti. \u201cThese companies have benefited from our cybersecurity expertise and are good examples of how Invest Ottawa<\/a>, the GCR and MadeMill have helped companies move forward with their programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCarleton is a player in terms of entrepreneurship and cybersecurity. I\u2019m very pleased that we were able to showcase some of our strengths.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tackling Cybersecurity Challenges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Funded by $3 million over two years from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario\u2019s Investing in Regional Diversification<\/a> initiative, the GCR is using academic expertise to tackle cybersecurity challenges while providing students and recent graduates with the educational experiences they need to become successful in the tech sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was great to have an opportunity to discuss what we\u2019re doing with the Prime Minister,\u201d said Craigen, director of the GCR. \u201cHe understood what we\u2019re about and we got our message out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prime Minister Trudeau tours one of the many innovative initiatives being carried out at Bayview Yards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a good experience not only for the GCR, but also for Invest Ottawa and everybody else at Bayview Yards. The Prime Minister\u2019s visit demonstrates the importance that the federal government puts on these types of entrepreneurial enterprises.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trudeau was invited to Bayview Yards by the economic development agency Invest Ottawa, which is headquartered in the building. He was joined by Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna, Kanata-Carleton MP Karen McCrimmon, Mayor Jim Watson and other officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBayview Yards is a leader in the early stages of the fourth industrial revolution,\u201d said Bailetti, \u201cand our Carleton team is part of the leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau toured the Bayview Yards technology and entrepreneurship centre on April 25, meeting with the people behind several of the startups and organizations based in the renovated heritage building, including Prof. Tony Bailetti and Dan Craigen of Carleton\u2019s Global Cybersecurity Resource (GCR). \u201cWe had a chance to talk to the Prime Minister […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":9252,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_story_type":[19,1917],"cu_story_tag":[],"class_list":["post-9228","cu_story","type-cu_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_story_type-technology-innovation","cu_story_type-the-new-economy"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/9228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/9228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98013,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/9228\/revisions\/98013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_story_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_type?post=9228"},{"taxonomy":"cu_story_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_tag?post=9228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}