Have a listen to our newest episode of our NATÔ Canada podcast, hosted by our Event Coordinator Erik Anderson, interviewing Andrew Kirsch, a former CSIS agent. They discussed Canada’s intelligence capabilities, both foreign and domestic, as well as the interplay between Canadian security services and the foreign interference scandal currently embroiling parliament.
Andrew Kirsch served as an intelligence officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) for just under a decade. He held roles as a policy analyst and a field investigator, ultimately leading the special operations security team running covert warranted operations. Today, Kirsch runs a security consulting firm, assisting organizations and individuals identify threats and vulnerabilities and implement strategies to mitigate their risk. He was appointed to the Ontario Expert Panel on Cyber Security in 2020, advising the government on strengthening cyber security practices in the broader public sector. He is a public speaker and trainer on issues of national and cyber security. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two young sons. Andrew’s memoir, I Was Never Here: My True Canadian Spy Story of Coffee’s, Code Names, and Covert Operations in the Age of Terrorism, was published March 1st 2022 and became an instant national bestseller reaching #6 and #9 on the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail Canadian and Hardcover Nonfiction lists.”
Listen to the podcast at the links below!
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/natocanada/episodes/Foreign-Interference–Domest[…]-discussion-with-former-CSIS-agent–Andrew-Kirsch-e2kts05
