Alberta NIST Assessment Workshop

Attendee Prep

To prepare for this meeting, we ask all attendees to review their individual institution’s NCA report, as well as the following documents:

• NIST primer
• High-level overview of the Alberta NCA results
• Review of the cybersecurity services Cybera currently offers post-secondaries
• Review of the proposed regional Security Operations Centre (rSOC) and national CanSSOC

We also want you to come to this workshop with ideas around:

• What are the most critical areas of weakness we should focus on
• What solutions should we work on collectively, vs what solution should be the focus of Cybera, individual post-secondary institutions, or other external organizations?
• How should we structure and fund any new initiatives?
• What role are you or your institution willing to play in shaping and running these new initiatives?
• What resources would you be willing to share (people, templates, reports, etc)?

If all goes well, by the end of the day we will have a list of priorities for tackling the biggest challenges our post-secondaries are facing, which we can then use to build a collective strategy.