CSE Annual Report Discloses 2,561 Cyber Incidents Handled and 3,385 Foreign Intelligence Reports Produced in 2024-2025
Communications Security Establishment Canada's unclassified Annual Report for 2024-2025, covering April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025, states the
CSE's incident and reporting volumes point to genuine scaling of Canada's cyber and signals apparatus rather than steady-state activity, with critical infrastructure now drawing more incident response than federal systems and workforce growth outpacing historical hiring. The subsequent 2025-2026 report shows incident volume climbing a further 25 percent, from 2,561 to 3,216, confirming demand-driven rather than organizational expansion. The critical-infrastructure incident share may instead reflect improved detection and reporting uptake among partners rather than a genuine rise in adversary targeting. Sourcing rests entirely on CSE's own report and the accompanying government release, with secondary outlets merely republishing the same figures, leaving the assessment without independent cross-source corroboration.
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- Communications Security Establishment Canada Annual Report 2024-2025
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