AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
IT Security Risk Management in the Government of Canada (ITSE.10.033)

"With today’s dynamic threat environment and Government of Canada (GC) fiscal constraints, information technology (IT) security can no longer be an afterthought, but rather needs to be a vital component in both departmental and IT project plans.

IT security risks can result in exposure of sensitive government information, a loss in productivity, an inability to meet organizational objectives, or damage to the GC’s reputation, all of which can be costly to the GC.

IT security risk management is the process by which organizations manage IT security risks and is achieved through the management and application of security controls, solutions, tools, and techniques to protect IT assets against compromises.

CSE’s IT security risk management framework can help outline a risk strategy that will align with GC priorities and resource allocation so that departmental objectives can be met."


Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Emission Security (EMSEC) Guidance (ITSG-11A)

"The COMSEC Installation Planning – Guidance and Criteria (ITSG-11) has been superseded by Emission Security (EMSEC) Guidance (ITSG-11A) February 2016 which is a Protected publication, issued under the authority of the Chief, Communications Security Establishment (CSE).

To access, or obtain, a copy of the publication, please visit the COMSEC User Portal (CUP) at: https://comsecportal.cse-cst.gc.ca, or contact your departmental COMSEC Custodian."


Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Cyber Security Advice for Political Candidates

"The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has warned that foreign actors will likely try to interfere in Canadian election processes. If you’re involved in politics – as a political candidate, staffer or volunteer – you are a target. It’s vital that you take steps to protect yourself.

The Cyber Centre has advice to help you protect your cyber security and deal with threats to your social media accounts. The guidance in this brochure isn’t all you need, but if you follow this advice, you can help make your campaign more cyber secure. For more extensive advice and guidance, visit cyber.gc.ca."


Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Cyber security guide for campaign teams

"
    Introduction: Why this guide is important to your campaign planning
    Before we start… Something for everyone
    Step 1: Assess what cyber security means for your campaign
    Step 2: Understand where your data lives
    Step 3: Secure your data and technology
    Step 4: Provide cyber security training
    Step 5: Know what to dispose of or archive
    What to do when things go wrong
    Additional resources
"


Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Harmonized TRA Methodology (TRA-1)

"
    TRA-1 - Tool
    TRA-1 - A-5: Sample Statement of Work for TRA Consulting Services
    TRA-1 - A-6: Sample TRA Work Plan
    TRA-1 - B-2: Asset Listing
    TRA-1 - B-5: Asset Valuation Table / Statement of Sensitivity
    TRA-1 - C-2: Threat Listing
    TRA-1 - C-4: Threat Assessment Table
    TRA-1 - D-2: Vulnerability Listing
    TRA-1 - D-4: Vulnerability Assessment Table
    TRA-1 - E-2: List of Assessed Residual Risks
    TRA-1 - F-2: Safeguard Listing
    TRA-1 - F-5: Recommendations Table
    TRA-1 - F-6: Outline TRA Report)
    TRA-1 - G-1: TRA Worksheet
"


Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Grain Elevators in Canada - 2022

The Grain Elevators in Canada - 2022 dataset maps the list of grain elevators in Canada as provided by the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC).  The elevators have been located as much as possible to an actual location rather than generalizing to the station name centroid.  Additionally car spot information from CN, CP and the grain companies has been added where this has been published.  
  
  This dataset attempts to provide a temporal and geographical extent of the grain elevators in Canada.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Grain Elevators in Canada - 2021

The Grain Elevators in Canada - 2021 dataset maps the list of grain elevators in Canada as provided by the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC).  The elevators have been located as much as possible to an actual location rather than generalizing to the station name centroid.  Additionally car spot information from CN, CP and the grain companies has been added where this has been published.  
  
  This dataset attempts to provide a temporal and geographical extent of the grain elevators in Canada.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Grain Elevators in Canada - 2020

The Grain Elevators in Canada - 2020 dataset maps the list of grain elevators in Canada as provided by the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC).  The elevators have been located as much as possible to an actual location rather than generalizing to the station name centroid.  Additionally car spot information from CN, CP and the grain companies has been added where this has been published.  
  
  This dataset attempts to provide a temporal and geographical extent of the grain elevators in Canada.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Communications Security Establishment Annual Report 2019-2020

"The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) released its first unclassified, public Annual Report.

This past year has been a notable one for CSE, highlighted by the CSE Act coming into effect, setting out CSE’s lead role as the national authority for foreign intelligence and as the national technical authority for cyber security and information assurance. The CSE Act also reinforced the crucial elements of openness, transparency and accountability that are essential to CSE’s work. This Annual Report is one of those elements.

Maintaining Canadians’ trust and confidence is critical to CSE. While certain information about CSE’s work, and how it is done, must remain classified, this report aims to provide insight into what CSE does for Canada, why it is important and how CSE collaborates with its partners to make Canada a safer place for Canadians."


Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Internet of Things (IoT) Security - ITSAP.00.012

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the network of everyday web-enabled objects that can connect and exchange information. These “smart” objects include more than your computer, smartphone, or tablet. They include items like personal fitness trackers, TVs, thermostats, or cars. This list of IoT devices is continuing to grow. IoT Analytics1 projects that there will be a 39% increase by 2025 in the global market of IoT devices [1]. Understanding how to securely use IoT devices in your organization is increasingly important.


Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population

This profile presents information from the 2021 Census of Population for various levels of geography, including provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, communities and census tracts. Data are from the 2021 Census of Population and are available according to the major releases of the 2021 Census release dates: February 9, 2022 – Population and dwelling counts; April 27, 2022 – Age, Sex at birth and gender, Type of dwelling; July 13, 2022 – Families, households and marital status, Canadian military experience, Income; August 17, 2022 – Language; September 21, 2022 – Indigenous peoples, Housing; October 26, 2022 – Immigration, place of birth, and citizenship, Ethnocultural and religious diversity, Mobility and migration; November 30, 2022 – Education, Labour, Language of work, Commuting, Instruction in the official minority language.

Geography:

•Canada, Provinces and Territories

•Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations

•Census Metropolitan Areas, Census Agglomerations and Census Subdivisions

•Census Divisions

•Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions

•Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Divisions, Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas

•Census Metropolitan Areas, Tracted Census Agglomerations and Census Tracts

•Canada, Provinces, Territories and Economic Regions

•Population Centres

•Canada, Provinces and Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order)

•Designated Places

•Aggregate Dissemination Areas


Organization: Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada
Annual Report to Parliament on the Administration of the Access to Information Act 2021-2022

This is the ninth annual report prepared by the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) and tabled in Parliament in accordance with section 94 of the Access to Information Act and section 20 of the Service Fees Act. It presents an overview of the agency’s activities and describes how the Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) Office carried out its responsibilities under the Access to Information Act during the reporting period 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022.

Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Using encryption to keep your sensitive data secure - ITSAP.40.016

Encryption technologies are used to secure many applications and websites that you use daily. For example, online banking or shopping, email applications, and secure instant messaging use encryption. Encryption technologies secure information while it is in transit (e.g. connecting to a website) and while it is at rest (e.g. stored in encrypted databases). Many up-to-date operating systems, mobile devices, and cloud services offer built-in encryption, but what is encryption? How is it used? And what should you and your organization consider when using it?

Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Developing your incident response plan (ITSAP.40.003)

Your incident response plan includes the processes, procedures, and documentation related to how your organization detects, responds to, and recovers from incidents. Cyber threats, natural disasters, and unplanned outages are examples of incidents that will impact your network, systems, and devices. When you have a proper plan, you will be prepared to handle incidents when they happen, mitigate the threats and associated risks, and recover quickly.

Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
National Cyber Threat Assessment 2023-2024

This document highlights the cyber threats facing individuals and organizations in Canada. It provides an update to the National Cyber Threat Assessment 2018 (NCTA 2018) and the National Cyber Threat Assessment 2020 (NCTA 2020), with analysis of the interim years and forecasts until 2024. We recommend reading the NCTA 2023-24 along with the updated Introduction to the Cyber Threat Environment and the tailored advice and guidance that we have released as companions to this assessment.

Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Security considerations for industrial control systems (ITSAP.00.050)

An industrial control system (ICS) automates and controls industrial processes (e.g. manufacturing, product handling, production, and distribution) and mechanical functions to keep processes and machinery running smoothly. An ICS may support critical infrastructure (e.g. energy and utilities, transportation, health, manufacturing, food, and water) that is essential to the ongoing safety, security, and well-being of Canadians. An ICS is the base controller for the other layers in an infrastructure (i.e. production, office, enterprise), therefore it should be secured to maintain functionality. This document introduces some ICS security threats and risks and the security measures that you can implement to protect these systems from harm. 

Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Implementation guidance: email domain protection (ITSP.40.065 v1.1)

This document provides guidance to system owners on implementing technical security measures to protect their domains from email spoofing. In this document, we describe technical measures that system owners can implement to prevent the delivery of certain malicious messages that are abusing the reputations of their domains and to identify the infrastructure used by malicious actors. 

Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Digital footprint (ITSAP.00.133)

Your organization uses the Internet to carry out business activities, provide employees with remote work capabilities, and offer services to clients. As your employees and partners carry out activities on different online platforms and applications, consider the digital footprint they leave behind. Digital footprints contain sensitive information that is valuable to cyber threat actors. Through the use of tracking and monitoring techniques, threat actors can access and exfiltrate this sensitive information, jeopardizing its confidentiality and security.

Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
How to identify misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (ITSAP.00.300)

The effects of misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (MDM) cost the global economy billions of dollars each year. Often known colloquially as “fake news”, MDM are damaging to public trust in institutions and, during elections, may even pose a threat to democracy itself. MDM has become a serious concern for consumers and organizations of all sizes. New technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, and amplification networks are being used to discredit factual information. Disinformation campaigns may use artificial intelligence (AI) to spread false and misleading information, such as deepfakes. Deepfakes refer to artificially generated images, audio, and videos used in place of the original image, audio, or video. This document offers consumers and organizations information on identifying MDM and implementing the appropriate security measures for mitigation strategies.

Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Guidance on using tokenization for cloud-based services (ITSP.50.108)

This document describes how your organization can use tokenization to reduce the residual risks incurred when using cloud based services to transmit, process, or store sensitive information (i.e. information that requires protection against unauthorized disclosure). When using cloud-based services, your organization still has legal responsibility for its systems and data. You are accountable for protecting the confidentiality , integrity , and availability of the information systems and information that are hosted by a cloud service provider (CSP).

Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Cyber threat bulletin: Cyber threat to operational technology

 Table of contents

    Introduction
        The digital dransformation of OT
        OT cybersecurity vs. IT cybersecurity
        OT exposure in Canada: A snapshot
        The OT of the future: Cyber-physical systems
        The role of OT in critical infrastructure
    The cyber threat to OT
        Direct vs indirect targeting
        Direct threats
        Threats to OT from cybercriminals
        Threats from State-sponsored Actors
        Other Actors
        Indirect cyber threats to OT from the supply chain
        Obtaining sensitive information about OT
        Accessing OT systems indirectly
    Conclusion
    Useful resources
    Annex A: Description of sophistication
    Annex B: Data collection and analysis
    Annex C: OT-related cyber security incidents
        State-sponsored incidents impacting OT
        Cybercrime incidents impacting OT
        OT incidents from other Actors
    Endnotes



Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Security considerations for electronic poll book systems (ITSM.10.101)

This document provides guidance on cyber security considerations required to securely design, deploy, and operate electronic poll book systems. The document highlights traditional poll book functions and discusses new services that can be integrated to support modern elections.

It also provides recommendations on security configuration controls that election authorities may consider when evaluating, designing, or deploying electronic poll book systems.

Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Security considerations for your website (ITSM.60.005)

This document introduces cyber security best practices that your organization should integrate into the design and maintenance of its website. In Section 2, we include a checklist of key measures that your IT decision makers and web development team managers can implement to improve the security of your organization’s website. In the sections 3 through 9, we provide further details on the security considerations listed in the checklist. 

Organization: Communications Security Establishment Canada | Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada
Key Funding Data on Canada Council for the Arts Grant Recipients

Key data on Canada Council funding offers a complete list of grant recipients from 2013-14 onwards, including detailed information by program, field of practice, region (for example community and federal riding) and much more. Detailed statistical grant data is available in both formatted Excel documents and machine-readable format (.csv) with an accompanying methodology. In addition to grant figures, you can find information on Canada Council Art Bank purchases, Canadian Commission for UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and Special Funds (endowed prizes and Killam Research Fellowships and Prizes). You can also take a look at the Council’s Corporate Scorecard, Overview of Canada Council Funding table, and Parliamentary Appropriation tables to find provincial and territorial breakdowns of funding and statistics, as well as historical funding figures.

Organization: Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada
Probability of Effective growing season degree days above 250 for cool season crops, in 2 weeks

The probability of effective growing season degree days above 250 for cool season crops. This condition must be maintained for at least 5 consecutive days in order for EGDD to be accumulated (egdd_cool_250prob).  
  
  Week 1 and week 2 forecasted probability is available daily from April 1 to October 31.  
  
  Week 3 and week 4 forecasted probability is available weekly (Thursday) from April 1 to October 31.  
  
  Cumulative heat-energy satisfies the essential requirement of field crop growth and development towards a high yield and good quality of agricultural crop products.  
  
  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) have together developed a suite of extreme agrometeorological indices based on four main categories of weather factors: temperature, precipitation, heat, and wind.  The extreme weather indices are intended as short-term prediction tools and generated using ECCC’s medium range forecasts to create a weekly index product on a daily and weekly basis.

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Probability of Effective growing season degree days above 175 for cool season crops, in 2 weeks

The probability of effective growing season degree days above 175 for cool season crops. This condition must be maintained for at least 5 consecutive days in order for EGDD to be accumulated (egdd_cool_175prob).  
  
  Week 1 and week 2 forecasted probability is available daily from April 1 to October 31.  
  
  Week 3 and week 4 forecasted probability is available weekly (Thursday) from April 1 to October 31.  
  
  Cumulative heat-energy satisfies the essential requirement of field crop growth and development towards a high yield and good quality of agricultural crop products.  
  
  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) have together developed a suite of extreme agrometeorological indices based on four main categories of weather factors: temperature, precipitation, heat, and wind.  The extreme weather indices are intended as short-term prediction tools and generated using ECCC’s medium range forecasts to create a weekly index product on a daily and weekly basis.

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Probability of Effective growing season degree days above 100 for cool season crops, in 2 weeks

The probability of effective growing season degree days above 100 for cool season crops. This condition must be maintained for at least 5 consecutive days in order for EGDD to be accumulated (egdd_cool_100prob).  
  
  Week 1 and week 2 forecasted probability is available daily from April 1 to October 31.  
  
  Week 3 and week 4 forecasted probability is available weekly (Thursday) from April 1 to October 31.  
  
  Cumulative heat-energy satisfies the essential requirement of field crop growth and development towards a high yield and good quality of agricultural crop products.  
  
  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) have together developed a suite of extreme agrometeorological indices based on four main categories of weather factors: temperature, precipitation, heat, and wind.  The extreme weather indices are intended as short-term prediction tools and generated using ECCC’s medium range forecasts to create a weekly index product on a daily and weekly basis.

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Probability of Effective growing season degree days above 175 for warm season crops, for 2 weeks

The probability of effective growing season degree days above 175 for warm season crops. This condition must be maintained for at least 5 consecutive days in order for EGDD to be accumulated (egdd_warm_175prob).  
  
  Week 1 and week 2 forecasted probability is available daily from April 1 to October 31.  
  
  Week 3 and week 4 forecasted probability is available weekly (Thursday) from April 1 to October 31.  
  
  Cumulative heat-energy satisfies the essential requirement of field crop growth and development towards a high yield and good quality of agricultural crop products.  
  
  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) have together developed a suite of extreme agrometeorological indices based on four main categories of weather factors: temperature, precipitation, heat, and wind.  The extreme weather indices are intended as short-term prediction tools and generated using ECCC’s medium range forecasts to create a weekly index product on a daily and weekly basis.

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada