Domestic firms produce cybersecurity software and gear that’s strong enough to guard sensitive data—like personal information held by banks—but not for state secrets, said Bridget Walshe, associate head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security. Through the new defence industrial strategy, the agency wants to work with Canadian companies to take that next big step, Walshe said in a speech at a global conference on post-quantum cryptography in Ottawa. (The Logic)

Talking point: Preparing for a future when quantum computers can break the traditional ciphering that protects all kinds of digital communications is difficult in Canada, with responsibility for different industries divided among levels of government, Walshe also said. The federal government is assuming that critical systems need to be upgraded by 2030, she said, but it can be a difficult case to make in private industry, where one firm might have thousands of embedded devices that can’t handle new software and have to be replaced.