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Cyber Security Strategic Planning

Program code
BWF04 (SHARE)
Core responsibility
Cyber and IT Security
In Departmental Plans
2018-19 – 2019-20 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2018-192019-202020-212021-22Cyber Security Strategic Planning 2018-19: $14.9MCyber Security Strategic Planning 2019-20: $4MCyber Security Strategic Planning 2020-21: $7.5MCyber Security Strategic Planning 2021-22: $5.6MCyber Security Strategic PlanningCyber and IT …Cyber Securit…
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data. The line at the bottom shows this program's names over time.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Cyber Security Strategic PlanningThis program2018-19 – 2021-22$18.9M

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2019-20Employees (FTEs) 9, against 81 in 2018-19 (−89%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2019-20Indicators added: % of security Administrative Investigation requests respondedDepartmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase)
2019-20Indicators dropped: % of time the Security Operations Centre (SOC) is availableDepartmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase)
2019-20Renamed from “Cyber and IT Security Operations” to “Cyber Security Strategic Planning”.GC InfoBase program names by year
2019-20Spending $4M, against $14.9M in 2018-19 (−74%).Actual spending (GC InfoBase)
2020-21Planned employees (FTEs) 208, against 9 in 2019-20 (+2207%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Historical: targets against results

% of security Administrative Investigation requests responded
Expected result: Secured Government of Canada IT Infrastructure through Planning, Design and Lifecycle Management of Security products
100%2019-20✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2019-20≥ 100%2020100%Met
% of time the Security Operations Centre (SOC) is available
Expected result: Reliable Security Operations Centre (SOC)
100%2018-19✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-19≥ 99.9%2019100%Met

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2018-19: $20M2018-19: $14.9M2018-192019-20: $7.4M2019-20: $4M2019-202020-21: $7.5M2020-212021-22: $5.6M2021-22
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19$20M$14.9M
2019-20$7.4M$4M
2020-21$7.5M*—
2021-22$5.6M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 1122018-19: 812018-192019-20: 872019-20: 92019-202020-21: 2082020-212021-22: 2082021-22
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-1911281
2019-20879
2020-21208*—
2021-22208*—

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan2018-192019-202020-212021-22
2018-19 plan$19,968,475$20,856,406$20,866,170
2019-20 plan$7,403,075$7,531,991$5,578,772
Actual$14,947,809$3,958,437

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.