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BACKGROUND
The Canadian and International Industrial Security Directorate (CIISD) of Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) is responsible
for administering Industrial Security in Canada through the following
programs:
- Industrial Security Program (ISP)
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Administering the ISP involves the following:
- Ensuring compliance with the and associated operational and
technical security standards in all phases of the contracting process
that afford access to CLASSIFIED / PROTECTED government information and
assets for contracts administered by PWGSC and, on request, for contracts
administered by other government departments;
- Ensuring compliance with international industrial security memoranda
of understanding and arrangements for:
- contracts that afford access to CLASSIFIED foreign government
information and assets, and
- contracts that afford foreign contractors access to CLASSIFIED / PROTECTED
Canadian government information and assets.
The security volume of the Treasury Board Manual, commonly
referred to as the Government Security Policy (GSP), contains the Security
Policy and Operational Standards for the protection of CLASSIFIED / PROTECTED
information and assets. The GSP applies to all phases of the contracting
process as well as to internal government operations. It also assigns
Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC), as the government
contracting authority, the responsibility for ensuring compliance with
international industrial security memoranda of understanding. In the area
of contracting, the Canadian and International Industrial Security Directorate
(CIISD) of PWGSC has lead agency responsibilities for operational and
technical level security standards.
CIISD is the Designated Security Authority (DSA) for Canada with international
industrial security responsibilities in accordance with Document C-M(55)15(FINAL)
Security Within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and various
bilateral and multinational industrial security MOUs/arrangements.
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