Supporting Canadian Security and Intelligence
Canada's national security mission demands managing cyber risk across complex, interconnected, and allied environments.
Canadian agencies align to CPCSC, STANAG, and ITSG-33, and defend critical systems every year at NATO's Locked Shields. Securing data and access is non-negotiable.
Reduce Exposure
Challenge: Nation-state adversaries and supply chain compromises are expanding the attack surface, giving APTs new pathways into trusted environments.
Solution: Fortra helps stop sophisticated threats at the point of entry, reducing exposure from compromised partners and strengthening defense against targeted attacks.
Automate Policy Enforcement
Challenge: As mission demands intensify and compliance requirements tighten, teams are asked to do more without added capacity.
Solution: Fortra reduces analyst burden by automating policy enforcement, minimizing false positives, and ensuring sensitive data is handled correctly.
Unify Data Protection
Challenge: Sensitive data crosses multiple domains and classification boundaries, often without consistent, enforceable controls.
Solution: Fortra delivers unified, policy-driven data protection that supports Zero Trust-aligned control, visibility, and enforcement across domains and classification boundaries.
Extend Existing Infrastructure
Challenge: Legacy systems often lack the encryption, governance, and interoperability needed to support secure intelligence sharing and modern mission requirements.
Solution: Fortra extends data security controls across existing infrastructure, helping legacy environments align with current encryption and compliance requirements while securely operating with newer platforms.
Case Study: Cross Domain and Secure Collaboration
Scenario
- Defence department needed a controlled platform to engage with other Defence/Defence Supply Chain organizations and for internal collaboration
- Global SI contracted to provide solution
Challenges
- Multiple organisations needed to access and share classified data sets
- Organizations based in multiple geographies, with differing control requirements
- Complex policies based on users, organizations, geographies and classification of data
Results
- Deployed Fortra Data Classification, Secure Email Gateway, Secure File Transfer and Secure ICAP Gateway
- Rich labelling of data ensured data identified correctly to drive enforcement controls
- Access and internal data sharing controls enforced
- Secure and auditable sharing mechanisms enforced cross domain controls and kept data secure in transit
Case Study: Fortra Data Classification
Scenario
Needed to ensure sensitive data classified appropriately to address security requirements, export controls (e.g. International Trafficking in Arms Regulation) and sharing of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)
Challenges
- Personnel deployed around the world
- High volume of highly sensitive information traveling via email and housed in documents
- Two existing classification products proven ineffective at protecting sensitive information
Results
- Fortra Data Classification solution deployed to apply metadata and visual markings with required multi-layered schema to meet federal regulations
- Integrated with existing Microsoft infrastructure
- Reinforced to users the value of data and how it should be handled
- Easy to use and maintain
Case Study: Fortra Offensive Security
Scenario
- National defense department needed to validate resilience against advanced nation-state adversaries and malicious insiders across classified environments
- Required to provide measurable assurance of cybersecurity posture to senior military leadership and national oversight bodies
Challenges
- Need to emulate nation-state TTPs, requiring continuous bypass development, Results diverting time from operational exercises
- Heavily instrumented defensive stack (EDR, SIEM, NDR) forcing constant tool modification, slowing engagement cadence
- Secure air gapped environments meant increased setup time per operation
- Leadership expectation to mirror geopolitical threat actors, raising bar for realism and technical maturity
Results
- Standardized adversary emulation using Cobalt Strike to deliver structured, collaborative C2 operations
- Leveraged Outflank Security Tooling to reduce custom bypass development effort
- Reduced preparation time and improved operational efficiencies
- Enabled team to focus on mission delivery rather than tool engineering
Start with Classification, Built for the Defense Mission.
Data Classification
Data Loss Prevention
DSPM
Secure Data Exchange
Secure, automate, and streamline sensitive file transfers among internal and external users.
Secure Email Gateway
Protect against inbound email cyberattacks and prevent outbound data loss.
Pen Testing Tools
Establish scope, map adversary attack paths, prove exploitability of critical weaknesses, and validate remediation.
Red Teaming Tools
Simulate persistent threat actors, execute social, technical, and advanced exploits, pressure detection and response, and equip defenders with actionable intelligence.
Use Cases: Mission Impact
Operational Communications
Secure transfer of mission-critical reports, ISR data, logistics files and operational planning documents
Sensitive Data Governance
Protection of classified, personal and operational information
Joint and Coalition Operations
Controlled file exchanges between Five Eyes/coalition partners with full governance
Cybersecurity Hardening
Reduced attack surface, elimination of shadow IT file-sharing tools and improved audit readiness
Supply Chain Assurance
Secure onboarding and data exchange between Defence primes, contractors, vendors and partners
Talk to a Defense and Intelligence Specialist
Government, defense, and intelligence organizations operate in some of the world's most complex and highly targeted environments. Fortra helps agencies, contractors, and mission partners protect sensitive information, secure collaboration, strengthen cyber resilience, and reduce risk across modern operational ecosystems.
Complete the form to connect with our team and discuss your organization's cybersecurity priorities, compliance requirements, and mission objectives. We'll help you identify the right solutions for protecting data, managing access, and supporting secure operations.