Cybersecurity

Canada Will Use Letter Grades to Assess Companies’ Cyber Resilience

  • Country partnering with SecurityScorecard to assess resilience
  • Biden official raised possibility of grades for US companies

 The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security plans to use that information to address where there may be vulnerabilities in critical areas of the economy.

Photographer: Meg Roussos/Bloomberg
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The Canadian government is joining forces with the cybersecurity ratings firm SecurityScorecard Inc. to bolster defenses for that country’s critical infrastructure.

SecurityScorecard provides letter grades to businesses and organizations based on cyber resilience. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security plans to use that information to address where there may be vulnerabilities in critical areas of the economy.