The Ottawa-Gatineau region is Canada’s cybersecurity leader

The Ottawa-Gatineau region is a global cybersecurity leader founded on top tech talent that is contributing leading-edge offensive and defensive cyber solutions around the world.

Ottawa Gatineau Cyber Cluster

Ottawa-Gatineau is a future-ready region with a capital advantage in cybersecurity. Invest Ottawa, lead economic development agency for Canada’s Capital, and IN-SEC-M a national non-profit cyber organization, are joining forces to promote leading cyber innovators, firms, and capabilities across Ottawa-Gatineau, and harness the power of our ecosystem. Our goal is to attract new cyber talent, companies, and investment that grow our economy, and increase the competitiveness of Canada’s Capital Region.


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Internationally recognized as a thriving and diverse innovation hub with the greatest tech sector momentum and concentration of tech talent in North America by CBRE in 2018, Ottawa-Gatineau is a global cybersecurity leader. Leveraging the growth, strengths and achievements of the telecom, information and communications technology (ICT), connected and autonomous vehicle (AV) and defence sectors, Canada’s Capital Region has developed unique cyber capabilities, talent and solutions.

The Ottawa-Gatineau cybersecurity cluster is founded on innovators and firms with specialized cyber expertise, products and services in:

  • • Vulnerability Defence
  • • Identity and Access Management
  • • Encryption
  • • Security Operations
  • • Risk and Compliance
  • • Cybersecurity Services
  • • Ancillary Services

Join the Cyber Frontier

The growing Ottawa-Gatineau cybersecurity sector includes more than 90 companies that are contributing cyber expertise, technology and intelligence to our robust ecosystem, and supplying the world with impactful cyber solutions. Register your organization with us, and be a part of the cyber cluster map and website for Canada’s Capital Region!

Sincere thanks

  • Invest Ottawa and IN-SEC-M extend sincere thanks to the many public and private sector investors that contribute to the communities we serve, and the Ottawa-Gatineau cyber cluster more broadly.
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