Building a Safer Digital Future

Cybersecurity is the foundation of the digital-first economy and widespread economic growth within a highly digitized world. New Brunswick is at the forefront of cybersecurity research and has a history of innovation in the field going back more than 20 years.

New Brunswick researchers are major contributors in the field of cybersecurity, with research that is protecting the privacy and data of everyday people in Canada and abroad. The province is a leader in innovating new ways to protect Canadians from cyberattacks, including supporting the development of real-time Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyberattack detectors with low computational overhead– solving a major challenge faced by cybersecurity researchers.

Collaboration is Our Strength

In 2022, seven organizations signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build and support collaborative projects to accelerate the cybersecurity cluster in New Brunswick: ONB, the University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick Community College, The J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management & Entrepreneurship (TME), Cyber Centre, Ignite Fredericton, and the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC).

Cyber Hatch is a program that includes support for companies at all stages from incubation to acceleration and scaling to deployment. It includes a comprehensive roadmap offered by leading provincial organizations (the CIC, Planet Hatch, TME, Energia Ventures, TechImpact, The McKenna Institute, and Cyber Centre).

New Brunswick’s post-secondary institutions are collaborating to build capacity in the province with a three-fold projected growth over the next five years bringing the total annual enrolment to nearly 500 students in cybersecurity-related programming and a net new talent pool of more than 1,300 students in cybersecurity-related career pathways. An increase of upskilling and micro-credentialing is also in progress.

To be a part of this sector in New Brunswick see the contact information at the bottom of this page.