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title: "Communications Security Establishment Canada"
url: "https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/communications-security-establishment-canada"
description: "Communications Security Establishment Canada, Government of Canada. Official website: cse-cst.gc.ca. Portfolio: National Defence. Description from GC InfoBase."
site: "Canada Service Map"
author: "Mahmoud Halat"
publisher: "Space & Story"
updated: "2026-10-14"
licence: "Built entirely from public data: open data and official government pages. Each record keeps the licence of its source, listed at https://canadaservicemap.ca/data."
---
# Communications Security Establishment Canada

Government of Canada · Agencies

Compiled by Mahmoud Halat, updated 14 October 2026. Not a government website. The official page always has the final word.

## About

The Communications Security Establishment acquires and uses information from the global information infrastructure to provide foreign intelligence, and helps protect electronic information and infrastructures of importance to the Government of Canada. It also assists federal law enforcement and security agencies.

Source: [GC InfoBase, Inventory of Federal Organizations and Interests (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a35cf382-690c-4221-a971-cf0fd189a46f). Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada.

## Facts

- Jurisdiction: Government of Canada
- Layer: Agencies
- Class: Departmental Agencies
- Portfolio: [National Defence](https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/national-defence)
- Wikidata: [Q597935](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q597935)

## Official website

- [cse-cst.gc.ca](https://www.cse-cst.gc.ca)

## Sources

- Description source: [GC InfoBase, Inventory of Federal Organizations and Interests (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a35cf382-690c-4221-a971-cf0fd189a46f). Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada.
- Record from: [GC InfoBase, Inventory of Federal Organizations and Interests](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a35cf382-690c-4221-a971-cf0fd189a46f). Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada.

## More

- [View it in the explorer](https://canadaservicemap.ca/explore?sel=ifoi:110), with the sources of its record.
- [Data and sources](https://canadaservicemap.ca/data): every record keeps the licence of its source.

## Cite this page

Canada Service Map, "Communications Security Establishment Canada", updated 14 October 2026, https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/communications-security-establishment-canada