Canada's National Cyber Drill is a coordinated, 10-minute exercise bringing millions of Canadians together — from coast to coast to coast — to test and strengthen our collective digital resilience.
Ready Set Cyber is a nation-wide cybersecurity initiative designed to bring Canadians together in a shared moment of readiness. For 10 minutes on one day, households, businesses, schools, and community groups all across the country practice the same core cyber-hygiene skills at the same time.
It's not about technical wizardry. It's about building habits — MFA, safe passwords, spotting phishing — into the daily routine of millions of Canadians.
Cyberattacks against Canadian households, businesses, and institutions keep growing in volume and sophistication. Most breaches still succeed because of the same handful of unpatched human habits — reused passwords, missing MFA, clicked phishing links.
A drill doesn't prevent every attack. What it does is surface where you're exposed, build muscle memory for how to respond, and give you a shared vocabulary so your family, team, or class knows what to do when something feels wrong.
Every scenario, resource, and emergency contact in the drill kit is grounded in Canadian context: the CRA impersonation scams that spike at tax time, the fraud hotlines that actually answer, the reporting channels that lead to real outcomes. Everything is bilingual and available across all 13 provinces and territories.