Apply now for Canada Ukraine Security Innovation Challenge (CUSIC)

CUSIC will surface tech solutions by having entrepreneurs participate in a bilateral competition and showcase. Qualified companies will have the opportunity to pitch to Canadian and Ukrainian national security stakeholders and may be selected for feasibility studies, procurement and adoption projects. This challenge will be the focus of Communitech’s Fast Track Security program until November.

CUSIC is bringing the national security community together to surface solutions to challenges identified by Canadian and Ukrainian security partners, with the goal of commercialization through piloting and procurement opportunities.

The Canadian Challenges

• Information sharing around cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities
  • How might they increase timely information sharing around cybersecurity threats and vulnerability across NATO nations, with built in accreditation and approval mechanisms.
• Combating insider threats in National Security networks
  • How might they combat insider threats in National Security networks?
• Managing resiliency and penetration testing
  • How might they effectively manage resiliency and penetration testing maintenance programming.
• Monitoring & protection against malicious code
  • How might they continuously monitor and protect against malicious code and attacks written by large language and neural network models such as Open AI.
• Secure communications
  • How might they enable secure, undetectable, and fast communications, including quantum secure transfer of data.

The Ukrainian Challenges

• Predicting cyber attacks technologies
• Data encryption systems
• Systems of protection against information weapons
• Secure management and communication tools
• Cybersecurity
  • Protection against malicious code written by OpenAl’s GPT-based models class tools.
• Automatic Security Posture Assessment Tool
  • A solution that would be able automatically map users in the directory (AD or else) to the RBAC and ABAC controls in DBs, SaaS products, and other third-party systems by utilizing the API/CLI of the third-party solution/system.
• Network Traffic Analysis OSINT Tool
  • A tool specifically focused on performing ad-hoc OSINT and enrichment on network traffic flows/files based on input data, this tool would be useful in attributing threat actors using specific IOCs and flows that are triggered by certain tools, it would allow a further prediction of possible attack vectors in case a signature is mapped to the threat actor.
• Automatic Security Posture Assessment Tool
  • A tool that would be able to map gaps in posture to specific Cybersecurity Strategy Actions in annual, bi-annual and long-term periods.

Who can apply?

• CUSIC is open to any Canadian and Ukrainian tech company with a solution to the proposed challenges.
• Canadian and Ukrainian tech companies with commercial-ready solutions to the proposed challenges are encouraged to apply.
• For Canadian companies to be eligible for CUSIC, companies must be headquartered in Canada and/or be majority Canadian owned (>50%), and willing to become a Communitech member if accepted into the program.
• For Ukrainian companies to be eligible for CUSIC, companies must be operating in Ukraine.

For more information, visit OCI.