Information and communications technology
Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
Automotive, connected and autonomous
Business and financial services
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In Waterloo, security is at the core of everything we create. With more than 50 companies, internationally-renowned security experts and an impressive research core, we are focused on advancements in embedded security, cybersecurity, encryption and threat detection.
We are pioneers in this field, including inventing elliptical curve cryptography, and we are continuously producing solutions to meet tomorrow's security needs with world-renowned talent and research and development:
- University of Waterloo
- 11 undergraduate and graduate courses in cybersecurity and privacy
- 88 faculty experts in cybersecurity, privacy, quantum-safe cryptosystems and cryptography
- The largest concentration of math and computer science talent in the world
- Home to a world-leading experimental and applied quantum institute
- Density of research centres, such as University of Waterloo’s
Have questions about how your business could leverage Waterloo’s security ecosystem?
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J.Paul Haynes, eSentire
"The area of cybersecurity is faced with huge shortages of skilled people but we figured out a solution to that, which is cemented in the fabric of Waterloo. We hire a lot of threat analysts who come from the local colleges, as well as developers from the local universities."
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