Technical Security Branch (TSB) Workshop | CTSC 2026
We are pleased to be able to bring a mix of new and emerging technical security considerations to round out CTSC 2026; with a mix with an excellent historical topic for discussion. Historically, forgotten events will often resurface as even more complex threats in the future.
We must make an effort to study and learn from the past, just as we must embrace the reality of new and emerging technology and the risk so-implied.
A Standards-Based Approach to Understanding EV/AV Risks (Part I)
Day-3 | Session 16A
Autonomous vehicles (AV) function by combining internal and external sensors, AI integrated decision‑making, situational mapping, and algorithmic control systems so the vehicle can perceive its environment and drive without human input. The importance of advanced operator training and certification relating to modern vehicle inspections continues to challenge technical operators due to a radical shift in technology-based threats, emerging attacks, supply-chain vulnerabilities, new communication standards, complex sensor environments and both technological and human related threat factors. The integration of Artificial-Intelligence (AI) and significantly more sophisticated attack surfaces raise concern across the technology and technical security sector from a liability perspective.
Part I
Paul will tackle the complex subject of “Understanding the Technology, Risks and Liability” of Modern TSCM Vehicle Inspections for the technical operator and those that assess risk and liability at the government and commercial level.
A Standards-Based Approach to Understanding EV/AV Risks (Part II)
Day-3 | Session 17A
Modern EVs and autonomous‑ready platforms use layered, security‑hardened architectures, so that the signal path is very different to navigate depending on whether you’re aiming for diagnostics, development, reverse engineering, or OEM‑authorized integration.
The importance of advanced operator training and certification relating to modern vehicle inspections continues to challenge technical operators due to a radical shift in technology-based threats, emerging attacks, supply-chain vulnerabilities, new communication standards, complex sensor environments and both technological and human related threat factors.
The integration of Artificial-Intelligence (AI) and significantly more sophisticated attack surfaces raise concern across the technology and technical security sector from a liability perspective.
Part II
Modern EVs and autonomous‑ready platforms use layered, security‑hardened architectures, so that the signal path is very different to navigate depending on whether you’re aiming for diagnostics, development, reverse engineering, or OEM‑authorized integration.
Espionage, Spies, and Threat Actor Tradecraft
Day-3 | Session 18A
This presentation will examine a number of Canadian cases. Exploring the background, motivations, ideology, human factors, spy profiles, recruitment methods, use of coercion; and the money, including the significance of historical corporate espionage and the cross-over relationship with state-sponsored espionage activities.
Learn about the methods, dead drops, encryption, disguises, tactics, cyber-espionage and the discovery of espionage activities. Understand the role of law-enforcement and government security services responsible for counterintelligence in Canada, with a historical look-back focus on Canada and international connections.
Understand the role of political, legal, and the counterintelligence successes and failures.