Information Highways

Security at high speed: Securing personal information in an insecure world

Who can better appreciate the need to protect the integrity and security of sensitive personal data than Statistics Canada and the 2006 Census development team? Yet what better way to revolutionize the way census data is collected then to exploit the speed and wide spread accessibility of the Internet? Wanting to go beyond the traditional SSL-based Web security in developing Canada�s first online census questionnaire Statistics Canada has developed an innovative, secure web application that provides strong authentication and round-trip data encryption between the user’s browser and the back-end application. Join Statistics Canada for an overview of the new internet response option for the 2006 census and a discussion of the ground breaking steps they have taken to guarantee the security of personal information submitted online.