Cyber Defense Services

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Objective

Establish a memorandum of understanding for defensive services and threat-monitoring protection services.

Applicable Service Models

IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

Mandatory Requirements

Activity	Validation
Sign a memorandum of understanding with the Cyber Centre by contacting CDOServiceDeployments@cyber.gc.ca	Confirm with the Cyber Centre that the memorandum of understanding has been signed.
Implement defensive services, including host-based sensors (HBSs), cloud-based sensors (CBSs), and network-based sensors (NBSs), in accordance with the Cyber Centre’s onboarding guidance where available.	Confirm that the Cyber Centre’s sensors or other cyber defence services are implemented where available.

Additional Considerations

None

References

• Direction on the Secure Use of Commercial Cloud Services: Security Policy Implementation Notice (SPIN) 2017-01, subsection 6.3

Related security controls from ITSG-33

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